Adobe reveals plans for a free Flex 2 compiler and a reasonably priced IDE and yet I'm terribly worried. Why? I was on the phone today with a good friend who is also a prolific writer and we got to talking about the latest e-learning project he's working on for a company. They're not using Flex [...]

Sam Shrefler just announced on the OSFlash mailing list that he has released a Contact Manager sample application showing how to use Arp and Tartan together. Arp is a pattern-based framework for the Flash Platform, written by yours truly and Tartan is a similar framework for the server-side written in Coldfusion by the OpenXCF. Their command-driven [...]

Last week, I created a couple of YubNub commands for searching the Flex Alpha 1 LiveDocs. I must've rubbed somebody at Adobe the wrong way, because it appears that the Flex 1 Alpha LiveDocs pages were taken down and thus my poor commands are now broken Why? Whhhyyyy? What did they ever do to [...]

Today is the last day for the early bird discount for the Hot Shots courses! Sign up today to lock in the early-bird price of £145/course Update: So, how chronologically challenged can one person be? Seeing as how January has *31* days (hey... I knew that, ok!) And seeing as today is the 30th... [...]

Recently, while using Flex 2 Alpha 1, I found that I could not comment out a section of MXML that itself contained comments. As a developer, I'm used to quickly commenting out bits of code while debugging and Flex Builder even provides a handy shortcut for this: Source -> Block Comment. Unfortunately, this feature currently [...]