This past Tuesday the Boston Flex User Group held its second meeting. David Coletta from Adobe's Buzzword team spoke about Automated Testing Framework. This was a deeper dive into the topic he presented at Flex Camp Boston 2007. I counted about 50 people at the meeting. It was a very interactive session with a bunch of good questions coming from the audience. Below are my rough notes from the presentation. David's has a long background in development but hasn't programmed in Flash.

Some of the first hints about Flex 4 have been posted to the Adobe Open Source site. Great to see the future development of the Flex platform starting off this open.

At last night's BFUG meeting Peter Farland demonstrated an undocumented class called BindingManager that is handy for debugging bindings in Flex. This class exists in both Flex 2 and Flex 3. Below is a quick example of how it is used: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="vertical" preinitialize="handlePreInitialize();"> <mx:Script> <!

Adobe has dropped the first public bits in their effort to port Adobe AIR to the Linux platform. You can download them from Adobe Labs. Keep in mind this is an alpha release and everything definitely isn't there, yet.