Does a particular feature have you 'living large' in for-loops? Do you spend more time in the day typing 'for each (blah... blah..' than you do brushing your teeth in the morning? If you answered yes to these questions... implementing a specialized collection may help.

For anyone that is interested / active on LinkedIn – there is a group for Flex coders in the US.

LinkedIn: Flex US Developers

So... I just ran across this article. It's been around for a while - but it's worth the read if you haven't already seen it.

Ah, the irony! Microsoft says Safari isn't safe on Windows

Passing any kind of data in HTTP headers can be a tricky business - especially for Flash based technologies.

As developers gain more experience in Flex - it is natural that they will want to squeeze more and more out of the mxmlc and compc compilers. Here is a bucket-load of settings originally posted by Vadim Melnik which seems to have fallen out of grace with Google - or maybe he just changed the link. At any rate...

The 'Problems' tab in Flexbuilder/Eclipse can be very helpful when trying to zero-in on baddies in your code. However, certain types of errors can flood the tab... making it more difficult to keep things straight.

Flex isn't a silver-bullet in software development... it has its 'uglies' and its 'pretties.' The trick, as developers, is to learn to juggle a handful of technologies to arrive at a stable / cohesive product while maintaining a clear view of emerging trends.

So... I got all excited about this new feature in Flex 3 and started working on a blog post only to find that Doug McCune had already covered the ground. A nice read about a very useful feature.

http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/06/11/imagesnapshot-class-in-flex-3-sdk/

While it is true that ActionScript 3.0 lacks a private constructor - the loss of a programmatic fixture doesn't turn ActionScript into 'damaged goods.'

If you are interested in creating custom components in Flex and have begun experimenting with styling them... you've probably run into a few circumstances where the interplay between styles and properties (that express a single visual style) have had you reaching for Tums©.