Flex Profiler Sneak Peak

In the “End-to-End Dubugging Flex” session we got the chance to preview a Flex profiler (it’s not definite that we will ever see it but is known that developers want it). With the Flex 2.1 update they fix it so you can breakpoint Flex Framework source file. You can actually do this now with no visual cue by pressing CTRL-SHIFT-B. It will show in the breakpoint list in the debugger prespective. Another good tidbit is use the...

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Just Received My Copy of ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook

I received my copy of O’Reilly’s ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook, by Joey Lott, Darron Schall, and Keith Peters. It covers all the basics of the language as well as touch on some of the more advanced features of AS3. Looking over the Bitmap filter section shows some hidden gems that I think will find there way into a lot of Flex apps.

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MAX Sneak Peaks

Here at MAX’s thursday keynote we get the peak into possible furture features/products. First was a Yahoo IM plugin connecting to Adobe Connect. Part of the demo was PDF files integrated into Connect also with SyncSDK contorls of viewing the PDF’s. Next, Tim Bruntel with the ColdFusion team demonstrated the new Scorpio features through an elebrate story with Scorpio Man (Ben Forta) helping save the day. In short they demo’d...

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