name: Omar Gonzalez age: 32 employer: http://almerblank.com location: Venice Beach, California when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? I first started working with Flash around 1999 using Flash 4, first adding “flashy pieces” to HTML sites and eventually starting to create small apps and video players. I didn’t start Flex until Flex 2 beta. I remember [...]

Last night I gave my Intro to TDD and TDD Kata presentation using Adobe Connect to the Bloomington/Normal Illinois Rich Internet Applications Adobe Group. The presentation was recorded and is now available online for anyone that wasn’t able to attend the live session. I’ve also uploaded the slideshow with all of the info, quotes, links, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 first episode of seantheflexguyTV! I’ll talk about several new Flex related tools and some software development books. I’d like to thank Jesse Warden for the inspiration and the nudge to get seantheflexguyTV started. More specifically in this episode I talk a little about: RobotLegs, Parsley, FlexPMD, RIATest, Hello Flex 4, Clean Code, 97 [...]

Last August I began researching and exploring the new features and capabilities in the next version of Flex, Flex 4 Gumbo. Adobe has been posting nightly builds of Flex 4 since last summer. Gareth Edwards was nice enough to help me to get set up and compiling the SDK at the time. Juan Sanchez was [...]