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 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, [...]

I wanted to post a link to this article that I had the pleasure and opportunity of writing for Flash Magazine about the Mate framework for Flex. Mate is an awesome framework used for developing applications using Adobe Flex. I’d like to thank both Jens from Flash Magazine and Laura from ASFusion for their help [...]

2007 was an AWESOME year for Flex and AIR. 2008 should continue this trend. Here are several different technologies and other items I plan on monitoring going into 2008. Some of these are bleeding edge, others are fundamentals which we’ve been studying for years. “I’m sure that Flex skills will be one of the hottest [...]

Here are a number of podcasts regarding software development. All of these topics are valid for Flex development. Enjoy! Refactoring Pt. 2 http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode55-refactoring_pt2.mp3 Design By Contract http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode51-designByContract.mp3 Architecture Patterns (Architecture Pt. 4) http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode41-architecture_pt4.mp3 Refactoring Pt. 1 http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode46-refactoring_pt1.mp3 Dynamic Languages for Static Minds http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode49-dynamicLanguages.mp3 Architecture Pt.3 http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode30-architecture_pt3.mp3 Architecture Pt. 2 http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode25-architecture_pt2.mp3 Development Processes Pt.1 http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode24-developmentProcesses_pt1.mp3 Architecture [...]