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Today I decided to try to venture off the usual Flex 2 tutorial path and see what I could come up with.
Okay here's my first from the brain/scrounging the docs Flex app. This demonstrates the use of the new collections in Flex2. By binding the view to the collections one can catch the [...]

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I just go a hold of the developer's release of Flock with the built in Flickr and built in blog editor. It looks to be a great timesaver. i haven't played with the Flickr aspect or the de-le-cious aspect yet but I'm loving the look of it. I remember when I first [...]

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This is one of those questions that I had been looking for the answer, found it and was not quite ready to use it. I found it again while reading these Flex 2 docs and wanted to put it here for safe keepiing
flex_app_root/WEB-INF/flex/user_classes that- my friends is where you put your classes [...]

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This is a simple thing I tried just to review. It's a text area that has it's text property bound to the slider's value property which is incremented by the button.

Here's the code
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XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2005/mxml">

    <mx:Panel title="My Application"  textAlign="center" horizontalAlign="center" buttonColor="#800000">

        <mx:TextArea id="textarea1" text="{theSlider.value}" fontSize="12"/>

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This is just a note to self:
You can access other components and their properties from within a component in code using
parentDocument, parentApplication, or Application.application to reach up and
myCheckoutAccordion.myAddressForm.firstNameTextInput.text to dot down. From the Flex Docs I'll throw an example together later- like after work.

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I came across this site/blog clientjava.com thriough a link discussing Flex 2. I try not to be too narrowminded in my view of the future of rich GUI development so I think this is one to watch. The site's owner also apparently has an e-book Desktop Java Live that is receiving positive [...]

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This is the first news article on my MXNA this morning. MM acquired Moblie Innovation. Is anyone else paying attention to these acquisitions. If so then is it clear yet that these guys are not messing around. A lot of the companies they have been acquiring are a testament to their [...]

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Matt Chotin's Flex app is online.

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The following is alist of Features as the cross my mind

When you use a custom component you can actually see it in the "live preview" -I mean design view

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I decided to take a pause while working on one of the QuickStart tutorials and try to customize the code for the BlogReader to work for my own blog- yes the one you are reding right now. I'll be d@mned it worked.
Right now i'm in a daze becaus eI have tried coding with [...]

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Okay these are half baked examples but they are the first thing I have spewed from Flex Builder 2 so you have to just love them like the art on the fridge from first grade.
Tab Navigation Play
There's more--trust me there's more. I'm fighting the Tourette Syndrome temptation to post every dribble that comes from [...]

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Day 2 of AS 3 and the tutorials are streming out

FlashGuru
ActionScript 3 First steps (I- VII so Far)
AS3 First Steps

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I've been eyeballing the Flash Mobile development and since I recently have upgraded my phone have been particularly interested in starting to dabble in Flash mobile in the near future. This article about Macromedia and Qualcomm deciding to add Flash as a brew extension. I think the dedication of Macromedia Adobe to [...]

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Hey. Game over!! Flex 2 is here. Any questions check bacdk in a year when the rest of the world catches up!!! I can officially say that this feels like the very minute that I've waited for since the day I cracked open Flash MX 2 years ago. I have [...]

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Now I may be speakin out of turn but...when i was in med school I learned about Dreamweaver. It was almost instant love- back in 199 or so so I'm thinking it was Dreamweaver on version 4 or something. Either way when I hit third year (that's the first year of wards and [...]

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Yesterday I decide to try one of the fireworks filter tutorials in Flash to see the result. I had always wanted to learn how people make those 3D smileys so I used that as an excuse.
I was impressed by the outcome. Some of the differences in the settings threw me [...]

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I just made my durn Flash 8 Category a few weeks ago and we're already rolling on to the next generation. The codename for the next version of Flash and the justification is posted on Mike Chambers Blog. Either way owners of Studio 8 Pro get a pre-release copy when it's ready!!! So [...]

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I'm sure I was supposed to distill a deeper message from this article but... all I know is Bruce Eckel(author of Thinking in Java) said he uses Flash because Flash has the cross platform thing solved. Thank you for coming - God bless you...Good night!

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Here's the Flex 2.0 presentation with Kevin Lynch

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