Flex Monkey Patches

I am currently subscribed to 111 Flex/AIR/Flash Player/LCDS/BlazeDS related blogs. I frequently find myself sharing items in Google reader very from the same blogs over and over again or I keep going back to certain blogs over and over again because they have information or code that I use all the time. Occasionally I come across a blog I haven’t seen before and it is filled with useful Flex related information.

I have decided to embark on a new weekly blog series that highlights these blogs and bloggers. I think that everyone who reads my blog should certainly be reading these blogs that I mention in this series. Subscribe and reap the benefits of the vast amount of useful info out there in the Flex Blogosphere.

My first blog/blogger review is Mike Chambers:

http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/

Mike Chambers has spent the last eight years building applications that target the Flash runtime. During that time, he has worked with numerous technologies including Flash, Generator, .NET, Central, Flex, and Ajax. He is currently the Principal Product Manager for developer relations for Adobe AIR. He has written and spoken extensively on Flash and Rich Internet Application development and is coauthor of the Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide, Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide, Flash Enabled: Flash Design and Development for Devices as well as Generator and Flash Demystified. (http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/about/)

Aside from being a journeyman resource for Flex/AIR/AS3 info and code, Mike is often at the cutting and even bleeding edge of Flex related stuff. Recently, he has been exploring new features for Flex 4 and Flash Player 10 and posting great tutorials and tidbits on his blog exposing many cool new things in upcoming releases. Here are some his recent blog posts that I have recently marked to share in Google Reader:

why-adobe-chose-fxg-over-svg

video-overview-of-new-features-in-flash-cs4

actioscript-3-vector-array-performance-comparison

creating-re-distributable-actionscript-libraries-of-pixel-bender-filters

adobe-air-for-linux-beta-is-live

urlloader-subclass-with-automatic-refresh-support

adobe-air-15-cosmo-builds-now-in-flex-sdk-nightly-builds

embedding-pixel-bender-filters-within-a-swf

data-binding-with-fxg-in-flex-4

defining-and-reusing-symbols-in-flex-4-fxg

getting-started-with-flex-4-fxg-and-flex-builder-3

everything-there-is-to-know-about-flex-4-gumbo

adobe-air-error-codes

reading-and-writing-local-files-in-flash-player-10

actionscript-3-and-ecmascript-4

getting-started-with-adobe-air-on-linux-video

adt-error-codes

firefox-3-will-break-some-flash-content

If you are not following Mike’s blog, you should be. You can subscribe to his feed here:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MikeChambers/

I am also following Mike on twitter at: http://twitter.com/mesh

I am giving Mike a rating of 5 squished bannanas

                  

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Grant Skinner has rehashed some of the content from his site into 2 articles on Adobe’s devnet. I think most of the content is the same, just better organized and presented:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/resource_management.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/garbage_collection.html

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