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Dec
1
Each programming language has its own mindset so analogies or comparisons with other programming languages provide little help or value if we want to use it well.
It is all about developing the mindset, and of course we don’t need to wait until Java will run into Flash Player 
It’s interesting to read the issues (from Java developer point of view), read more
http://bozhobg.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/why-i-might-not-want-to-use-flex/
http://joshuajava.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/why-you-might-not-want-to-use-flex/
Nov
4
Tiobe Softwares has released rankings of programming languages and popularity of programing languages for the month of November 2008.
The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings.
The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here
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Oct
31
You might find it useful to launch Flex Builder (as Eclipse plugin) help in a standalone mode by launching help in a mode that uses a standalone help server installed with the IDE.
To start standalone help, at the command line execute the following :
java -classpath C:\eclipse-SDK-3.2.1-win32\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.base_3.2.2.R322_v20061207.jar org.eclipse.help.standalone.Infocenter -command start -eclipsehome C:\eclipse-SDK-3.2.1-win32\eclipse -port 4567 -noexec
Open the web browser and goto http://localhost:4567/help/index.jsp
Sep
30
You have a flash / flex application where you want to allow users to customize the text formatting, font style / font weight for some text box. So you would provide a small set of fonts which would all get embedded into the swf.
If we working with external fonts in Actionscript 3.0, the external font must have a class definition for allowing the Font class and ApplicationDomain to detect and register it. We can produce class definition for the external font with embed tag in Flex or Font symbol in Flash library.
In Flash CS3 you can create a font symbol in the library, and export it for ActionScript. But with this way if you embed the font in the library then flash automatically embeds all available characters. So the compiled external font swf size will increased and bloated the load-time with unused fonts. This was the largest issues especially if we working with Asian fonts. You can find more informations about it in this nice article
With Flex 3.0 and mxmlc (Flex SDK 2-3) there’s the embed metatag where you can even define font character ranges which should be embedded for reducing compiled external font swf size:
[Embed( source='font.ttf', fontName='Font Name', unicodeRange='U+0021-U+0021, ... , U+2122-U+2122')]
or with this tag :
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Aug
15
Perhaps ActionScript 3.0 is more proprietary than it was last week. It’s still extension of ECMAScript and still holds a lot of the core values, namespaces and package. Maybe EcmaScript 4.0 was stillborn, and maybe the harmony will change the future of language/ the standards committe.
I think our joint concerns are better served if we keep in mind that most valuable point is abc file , no matter which language it compiling from (actionscript 3.0, haXe or javascript). So let keep saying to yourself “In flash platform I trust..!” 
Jul
15
Well, Merapi has been a long time in the making, but on July 14th, 2008 the initial Merapi Alpha release candidate has been distributed to the Merapi Alpha community of users.
Last evening Adam packaged up first Alpha RC 1 Build! It seems to be bug free and functioning rather nicely!
Read more : http://merapiproject.net/