You can now create modules in Flash CS4 using AS3. Â You couldn’t in CS3, but could in Flash 8 using AS2. Â Flash CS4 comes with a new feature in the Publish Settings called “External Library Path”. Â What this allows you to do is point to a set of code, and allow you to compile WITHOUT it. Â This is almost exactly the same as mxmlc’s (Flex compiler) -load-externs compiler parameter. Â We still don’t have -link-report, though, grr….
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How to Do a RIA Correctly
Forrester Research published a (free, usually $750) report on how to do a Rich Internet Applications correctly.  They point to Cynergy as a company that does it right.
I read it and agreed with everything. Â It’s short and to the point. Â For more context, read the 2 links below.
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State of the Flash & Flex Developer Market for 2009
This is a post I plan to do yearly, every April.  I originally started it (late last year) because at the time, many were attempting to guess the effects of the economy’s slow decline on the Flash & Flex market.  I was hoping it’d help others who were insecure, those who had only been in Flex a short while feel better, or who were just curious what things really were like out there at the time.  I’m not paid by Adobe to do this; I just love the technology and want others to get involved.  Also, I developed a side business, unpaid, where I route recruiters/employers to my network, and my network to them.  I found it interesting to see what people are hiring for, and I feel it helps me keep tabs on what the market it is doing.  Nowadays, you barely ever hear people questioning whether to use Flex or not; rather, it’s mostly on deciding to use it vs. other technologies.  That said, it’s still interesting to me to see how and what the market is doing.Â
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Agile Chronicles #10: Conclusions
The Agile Chronicles is a set of articles documenting my experiences using an Agile process (Scrum) in software development on my current Flex project.
- Part 1 – Stressful
- Part 2 – Code Refactoring
- Part 3 – Branch Workflow
- Part 4 – POC, Strategy, and Design Challenges
- Part 5 – Acceptance Criteria & Punting
- Part 6 – Tools, Extra Merge Day, and Postponed Transitions
- Part 7 – Bugs, Unit Testing, and Throughput
- Part 8 – Demo, Burnout, and Feature Juggling
- Part 9 – Scope Creep
- Part 10 – Conclusions
In this article, I reflect on how my first time in Agile worked on my current project.