in a rush

On3 is adding a NEW! Adobe Flex course – we may be the first to offer it anywhere: Flex 3: Developing ColdFusion 8 Enabled Rich Internet Applications.
The training covers the Flex client, Eclipse & Flex builder, the Flash virtual machine & how the Flex application development process is designed. It covers Actionscript, how events [...]

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Okay, maybe I do already love the Adobe RIA tools, but… if I didn’t, I’d be smitten with their latest offer to the community.
Once again, Adobe is reaching out to the community by giving away free licenses to their RIA development tools. Free Flex Builder licenses to academia and to the unemployed. And now, free [...]

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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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Being a developer is a tough job. We”re constantly under pressure to get some piece of code working as soon as possible. When we”re in a pinch, we often come up with some wacky workaround (aka refactor candidates).

While working on a recent Flex project I found a code sample that someone created because they were having trouble getting the useHandCursor to work.

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