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Flex Experts

Marco Casario has dedicated himself to innovative projects for the web using Flash and Director (as far back as versions 3 and 5). In 2005, Marco founded Comtaste, a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet Applications and the convergence between the web and the world of mobile devices--MobyMobile and…

David Tucker is a software engineer with Universal Mind where he focuses on Flex and AIR application. In addition, he is an avid blogger and writes primarily about Adobe AIR, Flash, Flex, and ColdFusion at davidtucker.net.

Fred Gerantabee is an instructor with Aquent Graphics Institute. He is an Adobe Certified Instructor for Flash, Dreamweaver, and the mobile development platform, Flash Lite.

Joshua Noble is a consultant, freelance developer and Rich Internet Application designer, based out of Brooklyn, who most recently worked at the popular RIA design/dev firm Schematic, Inc.

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Flex News & Commentary

Five Reasons Architecture Matters

By Dan Thomas
June 19, 2009

This post is an attempt to help justify the sometimes seemingly unappreciated efforts of good application architecture. Sometimes project managers/clients can question time spent on architecture and it can be hard to bring out appropriate explanations on the spot. This...

Scotch On The Road is waking up the European ColdFusion community!

By Cyril Hanquez
June 3, 2009

Scotch on the Rocks, established in 2005, is a conference concentrating on all things ColdFusion, Flex & AIR: Incorporating keynotes, technical sessions and tutorials, as well as the most innovative and successful experts and companies, Scotch on the Rocks is a...

Flash Builder 4 & Flash Catalyst Public Betas

By Rich Tretola
June 1, 2009

Flash Builder 4 & Flash Catalyst are now officially available to the masses. Yes, the public beta has begun at http://labs.adobe.com/. Want to learn more about these new products? Check out our new features published today: Overview of Flex 4...

Muzzling Flex Builder

By Mike Slinn
May 29, 2009

Flex Builder complains when a CSS definition exists for components that are not used in a project.  I do not find this helpful.If you click on the filter button in the Problems panel, a dialog will appear that allows you...

Overview of Flex 4 (Gumbo)

By Sean Moore
May 28, 2009

The goal of this article is to help you gain a better understanding of the stimulating new features and improvements that will be available in Flex 4, code named “Gumbo.”  Exciting changes are being made to the Flex framework that: enable sophisticated and powerful skinning capabilities, increase productivity for developers and harness the myriad of new features available in Flash Player 10. Example source code is included with the article to demonstrate the new skinning features coming in Flex 4.

FlashBuilder 4 will support FlexUnit 4 - tutorials and feature overview

By Elad Elrom
May 27, 2009

We don’t need to be jealous of Java developers anymore. The new version of FlexUnit 4 just got closer in similarity to the JUnit (http://www.junit.org/) project and supports many of the features JUnit has, and more! FlexUnit4 combines features from...

WebDU 2009: that geeky rock concert

By Justin J. Moses
May 23, 2009

It may surprise you to know that the Pacific region has its fair share of web talent. Having just been surrounded by most of them for the past couple of days, I can attest to the fact. This year was my first WebDU, and I'm still tingling.

Flex 4 & Custom Layouts

By Andrew Trice
May 21, 2009

If you haven't been keeping up with the latest on Flex 4, this is something that you will certainly want to look into. One of the new features of the Flex 4/Spark component architecture is that you can customize the layout of a container without altering the container itself. All you need to do is define a custom layout. Read more to see how...

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