Alternate Tooltip for <mx:List /> items

I spent sometime trying to understand ways to add tooltips for items within a <mx:List ..> component. As I naively used the dataTipFunction(), it was pretty evident (at least in my case) that I needed something whereby I can have more control, a more robust solution than the out-of-the-box solution. This is when I decided to use the itemRollOver and itemRollOut events and corresponding handlers.

My Review on Spring-Roo

So I gave a presentation about Spring Roo recently. Hopefully this means I'll get a kangaroo.  I felt it went pretty well. I decided to share some of my remarks as I think I learned more by presenting than by trying it. As I can not put a presentation on my document (yet), I'll show the text of my slides and will explain some of the things I discussed while presenting.

Lessons learned at 360Flex

It's time to reflect a bit about the latest 360Flex. This was a good time to learn about Hardware integration with the Flash Platform. Here we have integration with Arduino boards (via as3glue or merapi).  Also, I learned a bit about JComm as well as how these sensors can send Event objects whereby one can react and listen (think credit card readers, robots, etc). Nice possibilities that make so much sense for thick client applications using Adobe Air... Very exciting.