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OK, reposting this to a more permanent home...If you're interested in Flex and live near Orlando, there's an Adobe Users Group here that meets the first Monday of each month at DeVry. The meetings…Continue
Tags: Orlando, group, users, flex, adobe
Started by Greg Groves. Last reply by Matthew Zimmer Oct 7, 2009.
Fred Sells did this presentation for the OrlandoJUG. Here's the writeup and I'll attach the source code to this discussion so we can work through it. Stay tuned for the code!"Flex is a (mostly) open…Continue
Tags: Orlandojug, Fred Sells, turbogears, python, flex
Started by Michael Levin Feb 4, 2009.
I'm working my way through "First Steps in Flex", by Bruce Eckel and James Ward. So far, I'm on the "Item Renderers" chapter. Of course, at this point I am already thinking about how I'm going to…Continue
Tags: tutorial, flex, deployment, webservers, programming
Started by Michael Levin Feb 1, 2009.
"First Steps in Flex", by Bruce Eckel and James Ward is an intro to Flex. The nice thing about this book is that you can be…Continue
Tags: webdev, tutorial, programming, eckel, books
Started by Michael Levin Feb 1, 2009.
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Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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