Monthly Archives: May 2009

The Flex 4 beta is out … confusing name changes and all.  InfoQ published my Top 10 Changes in Flex 4 article outlining the changes in the Flex 4 framework / platform.  Below is the top 10 categories.  Check out the full article for details.

Integration with Adobe Catalyst
Spark Component Architecture
MXML 2009
Improvements to View States
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This week, I posted an interview with Bruce Eckel on InfoQ.com.  Bruce is a legend in the Java community, who has moved on to working with Python and Flex.  When I first learned Java his book Thinking In Java was a huge help.  In the interview, he shares on a broad number of topics, including [...] Continue reading →

It appears that Flex Builder Linux is no longer being developed by Adobe.  I just finished the following post on InfoQ raising the issue: http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/05/flex-builder-linux-dead.
When you consider all of the steps Adobe has taken to court Java developers, who tend to care about open source, this seems like a really strange choice.  Why not just [...] Continue reading →