Visiting the First European Flex 360 Conference
Flex is like a new island in the ocean about what you have read from books, heard from friends and decided that this is probably the place where you would like to live. 
The only reason you haven't moved there yet is that you still don't know exactly how is the weather there, is it going to be too crowded or too lonely, and is there something else to eat but bugs. As an unique opportunity, we found from Internet that there will be a so to speak tourism fair concentrating only on Flex island. There was no hesitation, we packed our bags and flew directly to 360 Flex Europe in Milan. The main reason why we wanted to be there was our doubt that the Flex tree grows poorly in Europe and we wanted some proof that this is not true (see previous post by Martin Where do the Flex Developers Live). Read more »
Using the GraniteDS and Cairngorm together
I have been using the Cairngorm framework in my application from the day I started to develop it. It has helped me a lot in understanding the Flex as it is somewhat different that is done in Java. At some point I wanted to start using the GraniteDS because of Spring but at the same time I didn't want to give up Cairngorm. Read more »
Where do the Flex Developers Live
We started this blog approximately a month ago. There were several reasons why we did it but the main one was and still is that we believe that Flex has a future and we would like to involve as many people as early as possible. Business people have waited for a long time to have finally good looking tables with sortable and draggable columns without an extra development request and Flex has it. Ok, there is of course a lot more in it but they don't care...at least today. As the guy in this clip says: "when I see the little kid and the look in his eyes...that's all I need" and probably it will be the same story with a Flex programmer and a business person for a while. Read more »
Java classes to Actionscript3 classes using Maven 2
At some point I found myself in a situation where I had data objects in Java and in order to use the same objects in Flex application I had to duplicate these classes in Actionscript 3. It was pretty boring and in addition to that, the possibility to forget to add or change some attribute was very high and it happened of course more than once. As I started to look around in web I had very low expectations to find a tool for converting Java classes to Actionscript classes. After some digging I found that actually there is a great tool, which does exactly what I needed. Read more »
