Following best practices during the development process can help organize and structure an application. Standardized development provides clarity, stability, longevity and scalability. I worked with several members of the Flex community and the Adobe Flex Team to create this article outlining over 90 best practices for the Flex development process. Thank you to everyone who [...]

In case you missed it here is a link to the article discussing the Strategy Design Pattern that was recently featured on the O’Reilly, InsideRIA website. Writing the article was a really wonderful experience and I’m extremely excited to have another in the works now. More on that later. Here is a snip of the [...]

Here is your chance to win a free copy of: Total Training, Adobe Flex 2 – Advanced Visual Programming. Some highlights from the DVD are: Discover how to create data bound drag and drop functionality for virtually any Flex control. Learn to create mouse-aware application features. Understand loose component coupling, implemented through bindings and events. [...]

Here is an article on Flex best practices that I had the extreme pleasure of recently writing for Adobe’s Dev Center. The article explores a number of things you can do to help clarify your Flex development process. The article was a community based effort and input was collected from quite a few prominent Flex, [...]

Here is a new pocket guide for Flex 3.0 that somehow slipped past me. I haven’t seen this book mentioned anywhere. Things have been mega busy over the last few months so that could explain it. Three things I really like: Flex, O’Reilly and a pocket sized book. These pocket guides are great for reading [...]

The Flex and AS3 ecosystem is exploding. The demand for individuals who know these technologies is at an all time high. I currently get about 5 people per day that are seeking developers who know this stuff. Over the past year the demand has only increased. More and more kats are jumping into Flex/AS3 dev [...]

Erin Fife from Adobe got in touch recently about some pretty cool Flex and Flash development opportunities that are currently available at Adobe. Flex and Flash developers are encouraged to get in contact with Erin directly to speak about potential employment with Adobe. (efife@adobe.com or 408-536-5382) Here is a bit more information from Erin about [...]

Here is a draft version for the Flex 3 Cheatsheets. A number of MXML controls are detailed on this draft. For the first few Flex 3 Cheatsheets I am thinking about following this format for the rest of the commonly used MXML controls and containers. The properties, events and styles are taken directly from the [...]

As previously mentioned the “Developing AIR Applications with Adobe Flex 3” online manual is really a great place to get information for many of the aspects of AIR development using Flex 3.0. This example was created using the code and information available on this page. There are three classes available to monitor network connectivity for [...]

Congrats to Dan Thomas for being the first contestant to send in the correct answer to the question in my previous post. Dan has scored a free copy of Flex Solutions by Marco Casario. There were a lot of great answers almost all of them were correct however Dan was the first to send in [...]