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		<title>GWT ramblings of a Flex developer &#8211; creating your project</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, a small update: Those who read my last post, here, know that I was planning to use MVP with gwt-dispatch. Well, at the time, GWTP seemed like an overhead and it included a fork of gwt-dispatch anyway so I thought MVP with gwt-dispatch would be lightweight and straight forward. But, it seems GWTP has a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=565&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GWT ramblings of a Flex developer &#8211; live search component</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/?p=545</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I had to create a custom component that does live filtering on data presented in a grid. If you are reading this series, you probably know how this can be done in Flex. If you don&#8217;t, a quick google search will probably point you in the right direction. Enough to say that in envolves [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=545&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GWT ramblings of a Flex developer &#8211; First impressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 07:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/?p=537</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I have done a lot of reading this week. I also feel like some of the dust has cleared from my Java muscles and bones. First impression is, it is remarkable how ActionScript3 and Java are similar thanks to the EcmaScript standard. The transition from AS3 to Java is just as easy as the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=537&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GWT ramblings of a Flex developer &#8211; Intro</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/gwt-ramblings-of-a-flex-developer-intro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/?p=533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a Flex developer. Have been for the better part of the last 4 years. Originally I was a Java server side developer. 4 years ago, Flex was rapidly becomming the next big thing in enterprise application development. I got interested and jumped in. Never looked back since, I love it! First, the transition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=533&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flex mobile applications running in the background</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When writing mobile applications over Flex 4.5.1, your application may be running in the background, even when pressing the back or home buttons on your device. This may become a problem if your application is doing things using timers, making server calls etc. You can listen for Event.DEACTIVATE and Event.Activate events and stop or restart [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=528&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Flex application splash screen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When developing mobile applications with Flex 4.5.1 you are always going to have a short time until the application loads. It is very recommended to add a splash screen to your application to ease the wait and improve the User Experience. This can be done by adding the following to the main application tag: 1 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=520&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Flex dead to be replaced by HTML5?</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/is-flex-dead-html5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/?p=518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few months, I have heard that question many times. Many think HTML5/JavaScript is going to replace it, and with Adobe releasing Edge it seemed to be a valid point. Deepa Subramaniam, Senior PM for the Flex team, alleviates those concerns with her post (rather a post on the Flex team blog). It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=518&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Multi-touch Charts for mobile platforms</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/multi-touch-charts-for-mobile-platforms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christophe Coenraets, Adobe evangelist, published a very interesting post about charting on mobile platforms. You can read more about it here. Good stuff! Tagged: charts, flex 4.5, mobile<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=516&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Passing data between tabs in a tabbed mobile application</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/passing-data-between-tabs-in-a-tabbed-mobile-application/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/passing-data-between-tabs-in-a-tabbed-mobile-application/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Holly Schinsky, a technical evangelist for Adobe, posted on her blog &#8211; Devgirls Weblog, a very interesting 2 part post series about how to pass data between tabs in a tabbled mobile application. You can read about part 1 here, and part 2 here. Thanks, Holly! Tagged: android, dependency injection, di, flex 4.5, mobile, parsley, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=514&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Builder tips &amp; tricks</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/flash-builder-tips-tricks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adobe published on Devnet Flash Builder articles a great post with loads of tips and tricks on how to speed up your work. Some are old but some are new and if used wisely can really speed up your daily coding work. You can read about it here. Tagged: adobe, code assist, Flash Builder 4, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=510&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extending AIR for Android</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/extending-air-for-android/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Currently, Flex 4.5 / AIR 2.6 for Android provides a consistent platform for desktop and mobile apps. While consistency is very important there are times when developers need to extend beyond the common APIs. This article, posted by James Ward on his blog, will walk you through how to integrate AIR for Android applications with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=506&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Migrating Flex 3.x application to Flex 4.5 – Tip No. 4</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/migrating-flex-3-x-application-to-flex-4-5-%e2%80%93-tip-no-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next tip refers to fonts embedded either with CSS or style tag. The format we know and used in Flex 3.x was: That worked with Flex 3.5, but with Flex 4.x there are a few problems with this format. First, we must remember that the Flash Text Engine (FTE) is now used for spark [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=492&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Migrating Flex 3.x application to Flex 4.5 – Tip No. 3</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/migrating-flex-3-x-application-to-flex-4-5-%e2%80%93-tip-no-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In previous posts in this series here and here, I talked about making the project compile and run before the migration process actually begins. The next few posts will be dedicated to common errors that arise from moving to Flex 4.5 SDK and Spark Theme. First, let me explain why those errors arise. When changing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=481&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Migrating Flex 3.x application to Flex 4.5 – Tip No. 2</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/migrating-flex-3-x-application-to-flex-4-5-%e2%80%93-tip-no-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/?p=469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As described in a previous post, I am currently doing some migration work for a client, migrating their Flex 3.5 application to Flex 4.5. I needed to pass a set of variables to the main application using flashvars. In Flex 3, it was pretty straight forward &#8211; you&#8217;d use the html-template file and modify it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=469&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Migrating Flex 3.x application to Flex 4.5 &#8211; Tip No. 1</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/migrating-flex-3-x-application-to-flex-4-5-tip-no-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently doing some migration work for a client, migrating their Flex 3.5 application to Flex 4.5. Occasionally, I will undoubtedly encounter bumpers&#8230; This will be an account of those bumpers, and how I came to resolve them. This is not guaranteed to be the best solution, just the one that worked for me, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=466&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spark DataGrid component with Drag &amp; Drop</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/spark-datagrid-component-with-drag-drop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 05:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you might know this, but SDK 4.5 also includes the long awaited Spark DataGrid component. These are great news. Alex Harui (who needs little introductions) published in his blog a post about this component, where he mentions that due to a few reasons the published Spark component shipped in the 4.5 SDK lacks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=463&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flex Air for Android screen orientation</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/flex-air-for-android-screen-orientation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to prevent your Flex AIR mobile Android app from going to landscape orientation, it&#8217;s quite easily achieved, if you know what to do (thanks Renaun Erickson). All you need to do, is modify your application descriptor XML to the following tags: Tagged: Air, AIR 2.5, android, flex, orientation<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=458&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Israel &#8211; for early birds</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/flash-israel-for-early-birds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flash Israel event ticket sales started! head on out to the official site here, and reserve your seat! The earlier you do it, the cheater the ticket! Tagged: adobe camps, Adobe Labs, adobe user group, flash israel, flex<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=454&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flash &amp; Flex Israel &#8211; session updates</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/flash-flex-israel-session-updates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post here, I talked about the upcoming Flash and Flex Israel event, part of Adobe Camps. Well, the speakers list has been updated, to include Ben Forta for the Keynote, Liz Frederick, Elad Elrom, Lee Brimelow, Kevin Schmidt and Hillel Coren. All going to be interesting sessions, I&#8217;m sure gonna be there! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=448&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HERO, AIR, Burrito and Android Tikal session recordings</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/hero-air-burrito-and-android-tikal-session-recordings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, Last Thursday, November 25th 2010, I hosted the monthly Tikal Flex group meeting. You can read about the session here. And here are the lecture session recordings. I used the laptop mic, so I apologize for the quality&#8230; Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Tagged: Air, AIR 2.5, android, buri, flash builder, flex, flex [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=442&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tikal is hiring!</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/tikal-is-hiring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tikal Knowledge, the consulting firm I currently work for, is hiring! So, if you are an accomplished professional located in Israel, don&#8217;t hesitate to drop me a comment here or send me an email, I published it on the &#8216;About&#8217; page. The offer is not limited to Flex, BTW. We consult on various technologies, including (but not limited [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=436&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hosting next Tikal Flex group event this coming Thursday</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/hosting-next-tikal-flex-group-event-this-coming-thursday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/?p=429</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This coming Thursday, Nov. 25th, I will host the monthly Flex group meeting. We will cover some of the new stuff in Flex 4.5 SDK (codename HERO) and FlashBuilder (codename Burrito), as well as showcase some basic concepts of mobile development using the new pre-release of Adobe AIR 2.5 for Android OS. If you are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=429&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Israel &#8211; Adobe Camps event this coming Feb. 2010</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/flash-israel-adobe-camps-event-this-coming-feb-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 22nd &#8211; 23rd 2011, Flash Israel is going to host the official Adobe User Group Flash and Flex Israel as part of the Adobe Camps. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s going to be a great event, I&#8217;m gonna be there for sure. It&#8217;s going to be 2 full days and will include some of the speakers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=423&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Next Flex SDK announced &#8211; codename HERO</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/next-flex-sdk-announced-codename-hero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Adobe announced the new planned Flex SDK version &#8211; codenamed HERO. HERO highlights from Deepa&#8217;s blog post: Multi-Screen Development: Allow developers to build applications that target the web, desktop or mobile devices using a single unified framework. Spark Maturation: Polish and grow the Spark architecture by adding new Spark components and capabilities. Large-Application Development: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=420&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flex SDK 4.1 and FlashBuilder 4.0.1 released</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/flex-sdk-4-1-and-flashbuilder-4-0-1-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Adobe announced the release of Flex SDK 4.1 and FlashBuilder 4.0.1! You can read Deepa&#8217;s blog post here. Tagged: Flash Builder 4, Flex 4 SDK<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=417&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flex 3 SDK Vs. Flex 4 SDK – Part 5 &#8211; View States</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/flex-3-sdk-vs-flex-4-sdk-%e2%80%93-part-5-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In previous posts in the series we discussed new features in Flex 4 that are basic in nature (namespaces, an introduction to the new Spark components architecture and the new mxml tags to name a few). In the next few posts we will discuss the more interesting stuff new with Flex 4 like FXG, states, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=377&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flex 3 SDK Vs. Flex 4 SDK &#8211; Part 4 &#8211; Two-way data binding</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/flex-3-sdk-vs-flex-4-sdk-part-4-two-way-data-binding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 20:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/?p=361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In previous posts in the series we discussed namespaces, an introduction to the new Spark components architecture and the new mxml tags introduced with Flex 4. This post is all about data binding, and two-way data binding new to Flex 4 specifically. Basically, data binding is like taking a piece of string and tying each [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=361&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flex 3 SDK Vs. Flex 4 SDK – Part 3 – New language tags</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/flex-sdk-3-vs-4-%e2%80%93-part-3-%e2%80%93-new-language-tags/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 06:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/?p=321</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Flex 3 had some language tags we are all familiar with like &#60;fx:Binding&#62;, &#60;fx:metadata&#62;, &#60;fx:script&#62; and &#60;fx:style&#62; to name a few. Flex 4 introduces some new mxml tags you can use when writing mxml classes. They are &#60;fx:Declarations&#62;, &#60;fx:Definition&#62;, &#60;fx:Library&#62;, &#60;fx:Private&#62; and &#60;fx:Reparent&#62;. Declarations The &#60;fx:Declarations&#62; tag is used to declare non-visual, non-default properties of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=321&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flex 3 SDK Vs. Flex 4 SDK – Part 2 – Introducing Components</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/flex-sdk-3-vs-4-%e2%80%93-part-2-%e2%80%93-introducing-components/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 11:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the Flex 4 SDK includes the MX component architecture provided with previous releases of the Flex SDK (mainly for backwards compatibility), it introduces a new set of components that utilize the new SDK features, named Spark. In most cases, the changes between Spark and MX components are not visible, but rather involve the component&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=306&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flash / Flex Israel Adobe group meeting</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/flash-flex-israel-adobe-group-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 20:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 25th 2010, I attended the Israel Flash &#38; Flex Adobe group event. Great fun, lectures and networking all bundled in one day, with pizzas for lunch, what could go wrong? We started off with Mihai Corlan, Platform Evangelist with Adobe Systems, who gave a very interesting talk on the new debug features in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=285&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flex 3 SDK Vs. Flex 4 SDK &#8211; Part 1 &#8211; Namespaces</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/flex-sdk-3-vs-4-part-1-namespaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/?p=277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Flex 4 added some namespaces, while it still supports the Flex 3 namespaces. This can cause some confusion, more so since some classes are part of two namespaces. While Flex3 used only one namespace (xmlns:mx=&#8221;http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml&#8221;), Flex4 uses 3 namespaces: xmlns:fx=&#8221;http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009&#8243; xmlns:s=&#8221;library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark&#8221; xmlns:mx=&#8221;library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx&#8221; Note, that while there&#8217;s still a mx namespace, the URI is different. Each [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=277&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flex 3 SDK Vs. Flex 4 SDK</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/flex-sdk-3-vs-sdk-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/?p=273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Flex SDK 4 was released, I thought I&#8217;d do a series of posts on the differences between Flex 3 and Flex 4 SDKs that will hopefully help migrate your Flex 3 app to Flex 4 or make the transition from SDK 3 to SDK 4 easier. I will be assuming you already know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=273&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adobe Labs Ideas</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/adobe-labs-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adobe Labs Ideas is a place for the community to suggest and discuss new and exciting functionality for Adobe technologies. Post your own ideas or review and vote on ideas submitted by the community. The Adobe development teams will review all submissions and use your collective input to prioritize feature requests and help shape future [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=269&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Securing your Flex application</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/securing-your-flex-application/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/?p=267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting read here about how to secure your Flex 4 application, provided you use a Spring enabled Java server. Tagged: flex 4, security<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=267&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adobe Flex 4 SDK out of beta!!</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/adobe-flex-4-sdk-out-of-beta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Adobe released the official version of the Flex 4 SDK as well as the new Flex IDE/eclipse plugin named Flash Builder 4. As with Flex Builder 3, there are two versions of Flash Builder 4: Standard &#38; Professional. The main difference is Profiling and network monitoring features. Purchase/upgrade costs are described here. You can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=260&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Optimize Flex SWF file size</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/optimize-flex-swf-file-size/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting read here. Tagged: flex, optimization<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=258&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ELIPS Studio 3 new beta version released</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/elips-released-new-version/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new version of ELIPS studio 3 was released (Beta 3), you can download it here. The major additions are: Support Android 1.6 and 2.0: ELIPS Studio can now generate your application as a native Android application package (.apk). More information about the setup is provided in the website, tutorials section. Native code mapping – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=251&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elips impressions and hands-on event</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/elips-impressions-and-hands-on-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, Ilan and I evaluated the ELIPS plugin for Flex Builder which allows Flex to go mobile. You can read the post we co-wrote here. We are going to host an event, under the sponsorship of Tikal. This time, we are going to cover RSLs &#8211; In depth look on how they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=247&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flex Black Belt is growing!</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/flex-black-belt-is-growing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month the blog crossed the 500 unique visitors a week mark! So, this is just a thank you post to all the visitors of my blog for visiting. I am glad people are finding what I post interesting and/or useful. I&#8217;d love to hear what you think about the posts, so you are more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=245&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended FlexBuilder / FlashBuilder plugins</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/recommended-flexbuilder-flashbuilder-plugins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the time, I have gathered a few useful Flex Builder 3 / Flash Builder 4 plugins, that either can speed up work or make it easier. Since Flex Builder 3 and Flash Builder 4 (stand alone version or eclipse plugin) are both built on Eclipse, we can utilize Eclipse&#8217;s plugin extension capabilities to extend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=239&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to fade text in a Flex application</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/fade-text/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many a time I wanted to fade in/out text in a Flex app. You can do this if you embed the font&#8230; But this option makes the compiled SWF file bigger with each font embeded. Here you will find a showcase of a few ways to make text fade, including the above method, and a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=233&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Builder 4 &#8211; My impressions</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/flash-builder-4-my-impressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been using the Flash Builder 4 (TM) for a few months now, and besides what you can read here, below are my impressions: Code completion &#8211; While this is nothing new, I did find a small improvement there that I missed. Suppose you start creating a new instance, you start typing &#8220;var myInstance:MyClass  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=223&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using resource modules</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/using-resource-modules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ilan Avigdor, a colleague of mine, has posted a top notch and very interesting set of posts regarding resource modules in Flex. You can read the Adobe livedocs atricle here, Ilan&#8217;s detailed explanation and code example here and his detailed instructions on how to use Flex Builder to compile these resource modules instead of manually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=219&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New in Flex 4 &#8211; Part 1 &#8211; States</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/new-in-flex-4-part-1-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Flex 4 beta 2 is stable enough, I decided to start a series of posts describing the changes that were applied to Flex 4. Today&#8217;s topic is &#8211; States! OK, so first let&#8217;s review how we used to define states in Flex 3. Inside the &#60;mx:states&#62; tags, we could define states, and for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=195&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flex Chart styling</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/flex-chart-styling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I needed to apply some styling to the Flex DataVisualization component charts. It had to look like this: So, I decided to tackle this one step at a time: White background First thing I tried was to set the chart fill style to white. This caused the entire chart to have a white background [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=159&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adobe Flash Builder 4 Beta 2 is out!!</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/adobe-flash-builder-4-beta-2-is-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adobe released Beta 2 of Flash Builder 4! You can download it here. The beta 2 release of Flash Builder 4 will run for 60 days from installation before timing out. You may continue your use of beta 2 after the first 60 days by entering a valid Flash Builder 4 extension serial number. If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=156&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introspection and private namespaces in Flex/AS3</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/introspection-and-private-namespaces-in-as3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello! Today, we are going to discuss introspection and private namespaces in AS3/Flex! The motivation to use private namespaces in the context of introspection is to be able to expose API implemented in your class in a way that is not public (everyone can use it), protected (only inheriting classes can use it) or private [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=139&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Builder extension serial</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/flash-builder-extension-serial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey gang, Seems AdobeTM is offering Flex Builder 3 serial owners an option to extend their beta serial for Flash Builder 4. All you have to do is go here and provide your personal details and your FB3 serial. You will receive an email with your new Beta Extension Serial Number! Way cool!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=125&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adobe Flex builder free!</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/adobe-flex-builder-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, the good folks as AdobeTM have decided to help those of us out there that were affected by the current economic condition and are currently unemployed. Basically, they are willing to provide you with a free license of Flex Builder, assuming: You are not currently employed or being paid to develop software applications or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=92&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using flash vars &#8211; part 2</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/using-flash-vars-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous post, we talked about ways to pass flash vars to our flex application. In this post, we&#8217;ll discuss how to read, analyze and use them in our flex application. Actually, it&#8217;s really quite simple. First, let&#8217;s create a FlashVarsManager utility class that will be responsible for loading, parsing and serving flash vars. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=81&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using flash vars &#8211; part 1</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/using-flash-vars-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things you often have to do, is get flash vars from a configuration file into your Flex application. There are probably quite a few ways to do what I will describe below. This is just the way I chose to do it. In this part, we&#8217;ll discuss how we can pass flash [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=66&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stress test your Flex application using Jmeter and EC2</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/stress-test-your-flex-application-using-jmeter-and-ec2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, a client needed to stress test his application. Since I had some experience with JMeter before, and was eager to try out Amazon&#8217;s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), this is the setup I offered. Turns out it worked remarkably well. Detailed explanation and utility files/scripts follows&#8230; * Note: the information below was gathered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=22&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dice roller</title>
		<link>http://flexblackbelt.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/dice-roller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Always loved playing Role Playing games (D&#38;D 3.5 in particular). Unfortunately, since my family expanded I have little time to spare&#8230; My old party members still play, however, and to humor them and to fill up a few hours of free time &#8211; I decided to create a Dice Roller in their behalf. It is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flexblackbelt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5633522&amp;post=20&amp;subd=flexblackbelt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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