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I was kinda sad to uninstall the Flex 2.0 Alpha.  We had gotten so close in the last few months.  oh- well out with the old and busted (sorry Flex alpha) in with the new hotness!!!
I’m chatting with you folks because  I’m still at 97% download and i’m fighting the temptation to go poking around [...]

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Okay the time is 9:33 EST and I am downloading my good to go copy of Flex beta 1. It’s on like Donkey Kong-beeeiotch!!
Okay my bad. I would love to blog but i have to go pee and put on my pajamas before the download is done. I’m having a little trouble [...]

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This is just a list of links to flex 2 prebeta posts so that I can look back at this and smile when I’m an old flex man.

 Flash Ant: A wake up call
Digital BackCountry:Flash platform takes a big leap with Flexbuilder2  
Sho Kuwamoto:Flex Beta available tomorrow + announcing free SDK

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$$(’div.d215′).each( function(e) { [...]

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It’s all true and it’s coming our way tomorrow!!! Christian Cantrell’s blog confirmed the free Flex SDK with at least the framework and the compiler and —wait there’s more( I feel like an infomercial!) There’s also going to be a free version of the Flex Enterprise services.  Read it all firsthand here  .  That gives [...]

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It’s official.  Wednesday is the day of the public beta that everyone’s been talking about.  I can’t wait.  This of course means at midnight I’ll be on the macromedia website clogging up the lines like eveyone else!
Read about it at CNET. 
I won’t double post about it or go into how I feel because I’m sure [...]

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This is a heavy piggyback off a blog post by Eric Anderson

import mx.controls.Button;
public function createBarsToo() {
var theButton:Button=new Button();
theButton.label=theLabel.text;
theButton.height=35;
theButton.setStyle(”cornerRadius”, theRadius.value);
myHBox.addChild(theButton);
}

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$$(’div.d211′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

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The last few weeks have been chaotic in a good way.  I’ve been working with eyewonder for about three weeks now and have learned a ton. As a result I’ve been way to busy getting settled in to write in my blog.  I’ve also been trying to get ready for the Flex beta release.  More [...]

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A few months ago I came across a post in someone’s blog that I thought was interesting. They posted their bookshelf and invited other developers to post their bookshelf.
When I went to put my books on my shelf to photograph I was amazed at how many books I had throughout the house. So [...]

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2 days ago I picked up a copy of Magnus Lie Hetland’s Begining Python.  I’m on Chapter 6 and am making good progress.  I’m impressed by the power of the language although I’m still only at the level of writing functions and passing them parameters.  I’m pleased by the many built is string-manipulatin functions and [...]

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I may be one of those people that loves collecting things just to have them.  I used to collect and install every Flash component I could come across just o have it and every fireworks extension.  I tried to get my son every one of those peek-a-blocks for his incredi-block.  Okay so it borders on [...]

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When the Open Source Flash movement began last year I remember thinking “Wow! They are really on to something!” It’s not even been a year and the momentum of OSFlash is amazing as evidenced by the rapidly growing collection of projects at OSFlash.org and the frequent mention on blogs and the internet.
I woke up [...]

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I woke up this morning to the sound of something being slid under my door.  It was a Fed-Ex package from Eyewonder and yes it is my official offer that I had been waiting for and not saying anything using all of my strength not to say anything about until I had something official.  So [...]

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I know it’s been a long time without a post and it’s because things have been moving at break-neck speed lately(more on that later this week).
The following link is a direct link to an demo of a subclass of the button class to which I added a public property “action”. When the button is [...]

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