In the course of reading and learning I often write little example applications. The example applications some time serf the purposes of R&D, solutions to problems, or just for fun apps. You can find quick and dirty portal for the Flex 2 examples here.

I fired up a command prompt and wanted to learn a little about “compc”. Well I got this error message. To no avail all I could find on google was a url in Japanese Here is the page. The page gave me enough info to go look for a “jvm.config” located in the Flex install folder (C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flex” folder for me, its in the “bin” folder where “compc” is also. Then the...

Flex 2 Beta 2 was released today and along with it there is a “Adobe Flex Developer Derby”. Adobe Flex Developer Derby This is a very interesting way of reaching out to the community. It should create quite a stir. It makes me almost quit my day job and create the coolest Flex 2 app ever, lol. Six winners will each receive: * A 42-inch Samsung plasma TV plus a Microsoft Xbox 360. See TV specs. * Your application showcased...

I just learned about some ways to get at the Flex Framework source code (mostly with 1.5). The code is not there to be reused but you can learn from it to help extend the framework classes. Here are the links I found: Find the source files in your mx_debug.swc Viewing the source while debuging I am seeing chatter about Flex 2 framework source code, they say it will be available upon release of Flex2. Read the FlexCoders Posts...

I tried getting a Flash Media Server installed on a Fedora Core 2 box. I spent hours figuring out why after running the start script nothing would happen. It wasn’t until I tried running “./fmsmaster” by it self that I got an error back. ./fmsmaster: error while loading shared libraries: libnspr4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Then it took me some google searching to find that the libnspr4.so...