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Flex

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Listen to me rant about ActionScript, part 1

So I’ve been working on a new feature for Flex Builder (Gumbo), and like always I can’t really tell you what it is yet.  But, I can say it’s support for a new language feature in ActionScript that rhymes with “Schmector.” Reading over the ActionScript grammar reminds me how much I dislike so many syntactic elements in the [...]

Signs that AS3 is maturing

Part of what I love about Java is the never-ending supply of libraries and tools available to the general development community.  For Flex Builder, we leverage Eclipse (obviously), ANTLR, Lucene, JFlex and a number of other libraries with great success.  Software engineers are lazy by nature (at least I am) and I know  I don’t [...]