Developing Flex Components Book

If you weren’t already aware I’ve been writing a book on Flex component development which will be published by Addison-Wesley, called Developing Flex Components: Using ActionScript 3.0 & MXML to Extend Flex and AIR Applications. Originally it was targeted at Flex 3; however, as Flex 4 in the soon to be “new kid on the block” I’ve decided to re-write it so it now focuses on the new “Spark” components…

Pre-Order Developing Flex Components Book

My new book Developing Flex Components is now available to pre-order on Amazon (and all good book retailers). Currently being updated to focus on the new Flex 4 Spark components as well as the older Halo components in Flex 3.

Flex Builder Is Renamed

After many months of speculation and rumours of Flex Builder being renamed it has finally been confirmed by Lee Brimelow & Duane Nickull. Flex Builder will be re-branded to reflect the fact that it is capable of creating content for the Flash Platform regardless of whether that includes the use of the Flex framework or not.

Reconnecting Flex Builder Plug-in To Eclipse

One thing that has always bugged me is that it isn’t particularly clear how you reconnect Flex Builder (the plugin) to a new fresh installation of eclipse.

Sure, you can uninstall Flex Builder and reinstall it after you’ve updated eclipse. To my mind that is just too time consuming; so with that in mind I set about having a hunt within my eclipse folder to try and work out what I need to add / change in a fresh eclipse install to re-link the Flex Builder plugin.

No Flex SDK 3.3 Auto Update For Flex Builder 3

Unlike a lot of people, fiddling with stuff until it breaks is something that is part of my genetic make-up. Therefore when the announcement was made that version 3.3 of the Flex SDK was released I immediately downloaded it and updated my version of Flex Builder.