Many of you may experience some of the same things I do when it comes to maintaining a Flex site. I try to create tools that help make my job easier, and at times create twice as much work making the tools. Well, here’s a tool that took 2 lines of mxml and made a [...]

Last night was the Seattle Flex User Group that featured Mike Piller, founder of Midnight Coders. He is the founder of the company and has very extensive knowledge of Flex, ActionScript3, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Java, .NET… etc. He created a product called WebORB that is an incredibly useful tool for companies connecting to data [...]

Here’s a great article I’ll share from Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in Java.  It’s about the future of Java interfaces, RIAs, Flash, and Flex.  Read and enjoy!

Here’s a great example of someone harnessing the power of Flex to create their own custom component. It’s a time control very similar to the one that Windows uses. You change the hour, minute and seconds section seperately, using either the keyboard or the number stepper. The source is available to see and extend for [...]