Back in July I had the awesome opportunity to do a presentation for the FlexMania Brazil conference on getting started with Arduino and AS3/Flex communication. I got the link to the recorded presentation and decided I’d share it with everyone. I was going to give this presentation at the UK based try { harder } conference happening in [...]

name: Doug Winnie age: 35, going on 25… employer: Adobe Systems location: San Francisco, CA when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? I started working with Flash and ActionScript back in 1999 when I was still in college and when I started my first web job as a web designer at the University of Delaware. I [...]

name: kathryn rotondo employer: none location: Tübingen, germany when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? in 2004, i started learning flash through evening classes from RISD’s continuing education department, and was delighted to discover actionscript. i had just completed a software engineering certificate at the harvard extension school (using mostly java), and actionscript really clicked with [...]

name: Matthew Wallace age: N/A employer: N/A location: N/A when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? I have been a developer since 2001 and started working in the Flash Player since 2004 are you practicing TDD? why/why not? I stated using more TDD this year. It is proven to be a great way to prove functionality [...]

Here’s a really cool new API that can be used for AS3 and/or Flex development if  you are working with mongoDB. The really awesome thing about using mongoDB and AS3/Flex is that you don’t need a middleware language to work with the database. The API was created by Omar Gonzales, you may know him on [...]

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, [...]

Here’s an exciting new book that is full of great information regarding developing components in Flex 4. The book is very in depth and a really great read. I have yet to finish the entire thing but am slowly making my way through it. The beginning of the book is an overview of Flex and [...]

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 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 [...]