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Understanding Flex trough examples

Posted: December 3rd, 2008 | Author: timo | No Comments »

Flex & Air as technologies enable whole new kind of applications and make things possible that before were very difficult to realize. And what better way to understand what is possible, than trough examples? Superb desktop application which works for coders and business people alike: Tour de Flex.

This is what they say:

Tour de Flex includes over 200 runnable samples, each with source code, links to documentation, and other details. Topics include the Flex Core Components, Flex Data Access, AIR Desktop Capabilities, Cloud APIs, Data Visualization, Mapping, and a growing collection of custom components, effects, skins, etc.

How cool is that?

flex build automation with ant

Posted: October 15th, 2008 | Author: boris | No Comments »

Flex Builder is working just fine when used with small to middle sized projects. But once used with large scale project it just starts to go down: slow builds, irregular or messed up building, slow refresh rate & etc.
Include that flex builder IDE just do not have implementation of good automation routines like:
increment project’s version & timestamp -> compile release -> prepare release -> upload to development server Read the rest of this entry »