I’ll be giving a presentation on TDD for the Bloomington/Normal, IL Rich Internet Applications Group on May 25th at 6:30PM (Central time). It will be broadcast via Adobe Connect so you watch it from anywhere. It will also be recorded for playback at a later point in time. Here’s more info about the presentation: This [...]

So with the release of Flash Builder 4.5 and the continuing popularity of the Android platform and devices there are a number of books coming to market. Here are a few books that should help you get up to speed and learn more about developing for Android with the Flash Platform. I had the opportunity [...]

One of the most useful sessions I attended at 360Flex was Rob Rusher’s session on localization of Flex applications. All the sessions were great but this one applied directly to a project I’m working on. In the session Rob gave an overview of the BabelFX framework and explained how to get it set up and [...]

Looking around the web and searching google resulted in no quick, easy and simple results for a basic drag and drop example for a Flex 4 Group. There’s plenty of drag and drop examples but all the ones I located were way too complicated for my needs. (What’s up with all the examples being super-over-the-top [...]

Here’s a new AS3/Flex project I’ve been working on that uses brainwave data to control an LED on an Arduino microcontroller. The brainwave data is captured with a Mindset BCI, sent into an AIR application and then sent to an Arduino Duemilanove. It uses the AS3 API I created for interfacing Flash/Flex projects to the [...]

Over the past few weeks I started a couple different polls to gather data regarding the experience and pay for Flex development. You can find links to the polls in this post but I’ll also give a quick breakdown of what the data has revealed! There are many things to take into consideration regarding the [...]

SourceMate is a really cool plug-in that can be used in Flex/Flash Builder. SourceMate provides some really useful functionality that isn’t included by default with Flash Builder. I’ve been using SourceMate for a little while and there are some really powerful, time saving features. There are some handy functions like comment/uncomment all for classes. This [...]

We’ve all seen it, the code that makes you cringe. The projects that leave you scratching your head for hours and hours. The nightmares you have and cold sweats you wake up with at 2AM with your mind racing about 900 line long methods. The countless nested if and for statements, the code with 20 [...]

TDD Kata are something I’ve been interested in for some time. Carving out some time to get started doing them took a little while but I’ve finally started. If you’re not familiar with TDD Kata they’re basically a way to practice TDD. If you’re not familiar with TDD, take a moment to look into Test [...]

Here’s the second episode of seantheflexguyTV! In this episode I talk about the upcoming Flash and the City conference in NYC. I also cover some of the new features and capabilities of AIR 2.0 and do a quick review of the Flex 3 with Java book. This episode should be a little more organized and [...]