This weekend I attended Seattle Startup Weekend, which I blogged about earlier. What a rush! It’s really amazing how much a group of people can get done when they are motivated. The weekend started off a little choppy. Friday evening, we spent the time deciding on what we’d do. Keep in mind that when you’re [...]

Last night was the Flex 3/AIR Pre-release tour event here in Seattle. The event was a success! We had around 70 people show up, many of them new to Flex. Ryan Stewart gave a great presentation describing what Flex and AIR are and why the community should take notice. He gave some great demos, including [...]

I had a great time speaking at the Flash user group last night. The group members had some great questions and there was a lot of people who benefited from the discussion. We talked about the relationship between Flash and Flex, the differences and similarities and a little intro on how to create a Flex [...]

There’s a lot of stuff happening this month! First of all, tomorrow night (the 10th) we’ve got the SeaFlex meeting. We’ll be hearing from Richard Rodseth as our main presenter. He’ll be talking about MVC in Flex. I’m excited to hear about that. MVC is a coding pattern, it means Model View Controller. The post [...]

There’s an event coming up that is already sold out but would be a blast to attend in the future. It’s called Startup Weekend. Essentially, you get together with a group of people and in 3 days, start up a company. Everyone of the “founders” gets stock in the startup. I don’t know just how [...]

I recently revisited the htmlText Editor I created a while back and found that in the shuffling of web hosting, etc. I lost availability to the old version. I decided to re-compile it using Flex Builder 3 beta 3. It’s now located here: (http://www.theflexguy.com/tools/htmlTextEditor2008). Not much has changed. It’s still the basic editor it always [...]