in a rush

Adobe Flex Builder 3 software is currently available for free for software developers who are affected by the current economic condition and are currently unemployed.
https://freeriatools.adobe.com/learnflex/
Of course there are three restrictions. You must attest that you are:

Unemployed
Using it for personal use
Not using it for commercial or production use

UPDATE: The program was suspended, the last I looked, [...]

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A guy with call sign “Frode” on Flexcoders posted this trick on how to get the debugger to connect on an already running SWF.
> I’ve figured out a hack that sort-of gets me there – by configuring a
> debug profile in flex builder with “about:blank” as the launch URL, I
> can hit F11 in flexbuilder, [...]

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Having used a dozen or so IDE over the years, I appreciate it when they provide a way for me you use my favorite font (Bitstream Vera Sans Mono). You can set the font in Flex Builder from Windows > Preferences dialog window. Select the General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts category. Then in [...]

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There is a new view that you can get from Adobe Labs that will add an RDS view to the eclipse IDE. It uses an updated version of ColdFusion MX, so it takes an update to your ColdFusion MX server before you add the plugin to eclipse.
The RDS view can be configured to point to [...]

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How ’bout that new Eclipse plug-in for Flex 2?! Well, if you”re like me, you can’t wait to use Eclipse to do your Flex 1.5 development. Recently, I ran into a few guys I worked with on the recently released Flex application for Weight Watchers. With great enthusiasm they shared with me that they had gotten Eclipse to compile Flex 1.5 applications. With their permission, I’ll share with you now how to do this for yourself.

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If I were to create a Top 10 List, which I don”t, this would definitely be my list for “Why you have to upgrade to Flex Builder 3.” I actually got this list from Ted Patrick and enhanced it a little.
Top 10 List:

With the new code model, search, refactoring, auto-complete you will code 3X [...]

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