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This is an interesting entry on the market especially because the libraries they will develop will be open sourced. And having Flex SDK also open source good times will come to Flex/Flash developers.
The new Flex Builder 3 features include:
A very comprehensive article was written by Matt Chotin
Adobe is doing a huge step by making Flex SDK open source. The MPL license will allow organizations and commercial enterprises to modify Flex and create more (or less) powerful tools.
In my opinion this is a move that will shape the web for the years to come.
Flex has two friends…
That was one crazy idea, to create a person for Flex on myspace. When I am writing this Flex has only two friends but I hope it will get more. I’m not a myspace person so I can not become Flex’s friend but I totally dig this.
This cool new application is using the API exposed by myFeedz to provide a different view on the informations.
What i like about this application is that you can browse through the related tags and go on a path that can start with Flex and discover almost anything from the blogosphere. It kind of reminded me of the Finder from Mac OS X in terms of navigation technique, however I liked that application enough to compile a mc and use it.
The only thing that needs some more polishing is maybe the article list that is a bit to plain for my taste.
The Flex module for Apache and IIS provides web-tier compilation of MXML and ActionScript files on Apache and IIS web servers. This lets you rapidly compile and test an application by simply requesting the main application file from a web browser, similar to working server-side scripting languages like PHP, ColdFusion or JSP.
That means that writing a Flex application has become easier then ever. All you have to do now is to write your MXML and ActionScript code in any editor you want and just go into the browser and hit F5.
You can find more details and download it at Adobe Labs
A very cool Flex application has appeared on the web.
This application allows you to track the progress of bikers on different stages of the contest and to see pictures along the track. If you are passionate about this you can also see a lot of statistics.
And everything is over imposed on a Yahoo map.
I really enjoyed looking at the pictures (I’m not into cycling) along the track.
Yes, I do. However this is not the subject of the post. I found out a very nice cartoon about regular expressions. A geek joke.. 
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First of all, great news, Flash 9 has been released for Linux. That has many implications, one of them is that we can develop Flex now also on Linux .
Next week I will be at MAX and I just wait to be there. As it is hold in Las Vegas the conference it will be great.
There are some things that are happening and should be checked out:
See you there.
There is already on my site a JavaScript regular expression tester. I’ve been using it for a long time to help me with the regular expressions that I have written.
As I am becoming more and more familiar with Flex I have decided to write also one in it. It was a very simple job and the Flex Builder helped me a lot in drawing the interface. As in any other visual editor, one only has to drag some components onto the canvas and that is all. Attach a method to a button and..
Have fun with it. Right now is just a translated version of the JavaScript one but as Flex allow for a more interesting interface I will try to improve it.
