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There is a really good post on InfoQ of the top 10 development mistakes in Flex Development. Most of these things a Flash developer just knows and a traditional web developer may not. To all the traditional developers out their building Flex this is for you. Remember this is basically a somewhat optimized version of Flash so you have to watch out for the traditional problems of Flash, memory alloc, client cpu, deep linking, etc.

Top 10 Flex Mistakes

Gret new article on DevNet about embedding fonts in Flash.

Just wanted to post some resources for Python regarding Flex Development. I like Python, its a clean dynamic language that’s 10 times as fast to program as most languages. For AMF use PyAMF at http://pyamf.org/. Another great resource whether you use Python or not is TRAC at http://trac.edgewall.org/. It hooks into SVN and provides a face to your version control. And after you have TRAC installed, check out MYLYN at http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/. It hooks into your TRAC repo and reflects bugs right there in eclipse. You can also use it with other bug trackers too so check it out if you’re not using it and you have an existing bug tracker. Of course you can use PyDev for Eclipse at http://pydev.sourceforge.net/ but I’m a solid TextMate fan and been using it since it was released.

Saw this on Slashdot, gotta hand it to Sun for completely destroying everything they touch. I think any executive decision to close source anything is asking for a major backlash from the community. Especially with something as huge as MySQL. No bother, I’m a big fan of Python and PostreSQL.

Someone had alerted me that I didn’t have a RSS link on my site after which I proceeded to slither back under my rock in shame. Anyway I fixed the site by adding a link and thought I’d post the actual URL just in case which is at http://blog.jodybrewster.net/feed/. Sorry!

Adobe releases coding conventions….

This great post provides a brief tutorial on how to use Google Analytics to track events and what not in your Flash applications.

http://tv.adobe.com

Until Flex Builder 3 Stand Alone includes Ant built in you will have to install it separately. For those that are not familiar with Eclipse, this can be tricky to install.The following is the revised steps for Flex Builder 3 Stand Alone.

• Launch Flex Builder 3
• Go to Help > Software Updates > Find and Install
• Search for new features to install, click next
• Select “The Eclipse Project Updates”, click finish   
• Note: If you do not have the option above click New Remote Site and enter “The Eclipse Project Updates” as the name and “http://update.eclipse.org/updates/3.3″ as the url.
• In Eclipse Project Updates > Eclipse SDK Eclipse 3.3.2 (3.3.3, 3.3.4, etc) Select “Eclipse Java Development Tools…”, or otherwise known as JDT click next
• Accept the license agreement, click next
• Click finish to start download
• Eclipse downloads Java Development Tools
• Click “Install all” to install Java Development Tools
• Restart the Eclipse workbench

That’s it! You now have Apache Ant support in your standalone Flex Builder 3 install.Go to Window > Other View > Ant and Click OK. You now have the Ant view

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/3041544

I built the Snap Shots game, top middle, check it out…