So you cant get residency in New Zealand? Or haven't ever tried? Why bother, now you can join the New Zealand Flex user group and Im sure its just as good. Check out the newly created http://www.fxug.org.nz/  Looks pretty with web 2.0 gradients and large fonts. I think it looks pretty sex-c so let me know if it doesn't work on your browser (Mac users looking in your direction) There still needs to be some work done on the content and we still have to have our first meeting.

Mike Chambers just posted that Apollo Alpha!!! will be out on labs soon. Knowing how Adobe operate I think it will pretty much be the same time, if not just after Apollo Camp. Its just how Adobe work. So keep an eye on the labs site around March 16th, 2007. So might be time to plan some time off to play if your into that sorta thing. Hahaha I will be [G33k emoticon]!

 First the disclaimer so as to set the tone of "creative criticism" and not "whinny flex community member". I make my living from the flex framework and both enjoy (mostly) and am great full for it.Now for the issue at hand. I have come across it a couple of times ...

Wow what a week. and the greatest thing to top it off has been watching the excitement and buzz around a local New Zealand Flex development firms new product.Outsmart have done it again. The crew there have been busy with their heads down hiding away working on their secret project, ...

Today I was getting close to launch of an application I have been working on and decided to a bit more Profiling on to clean the performance again (its running on the end of the Flash players VM capabilities). The problem sprang from the fact I had recently changed the ...

Seeing AXNA (Formerly MXNA) goes down more often than Paris Hilton, I have started falling back to my old aggregators Fullasagoog and Feed Squirrel and I noticed that a blog post about accessing flash vars and variables supplied to swf's was being rated. http://mentalaxis.com/words/2008/04/22/parameter-passing-in-as3-flex-3/ So I though I would share a little ...

As I mentioned in a previous post, I recently got back from WebDU in Sydney (pronounced seeeeyyed ` kneee in the local tongue). One of the best Flex related presentations was related to the startup cycle of flex apps. The Big Bang theory relates here. Delivering the presentation Michael Labriola took what could ...

Well for the past few months I have been contracting out on an interesting and challenging Flex application that is a part of a bigger site, projectmanager.com (not live yet). I was asked to build a Gantt Chart/Datagrid of the site allowing the viewing and editing of tasks in a ...

Well after a small hiccup (hiccup === stress) I though what a great time to take a moment and write a blog post. For those not quite sure what the Flex framework Remote stored library is, its the core flex code, compiled into a separate binary. This means with changes to ...

Im always interested to hear success stories about how people have used Flex to solve a problem. I might have missed this story had it not been for one of my clients who has bought the software and is using it for mockups on a job I am working on. "Peldi ...