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October 17, 2005
Flex Builder public alpha is here!
Hi folks.
I know I'm late to the party with this news, but I figured I had to write about it.
The bits are live. You can get them here:
http://labs.macromedia.com/
We are all incredibly excited about this alpha, and we're interested to see what you build with it.
Some of my favorite features:
Compiler in the tool -- obviously.
Strict type checking -- obviously.
States -- it's still a bit rough around the edges, but I think this has a lot of potential to change how we build Flex apps.
Simplified syntax -- certain tags are now optional, which makes for less verbose code.
Effects improvements -- allows data binding, multiple targets, and start delay
I'll leave it at that. I'm sure you will have your own lists of favorite features soon...
Posted by sho at October 17, 2005 08:10 PM
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Sho, I would like to congratulate this on this major milestone, I know you are invested in this and we all apreciate it!
Great stuff!
Posted by: ilya at October 17, 2005 10:18 PM
Sho, wonderful! Truly! I've toyed around with Flex Builder 2 a bit and am loving it. Only that app, as it happens, because, for my part, I'm more interested in a powerful AS scripting IDE than the Flex platform itself. (Don't get me wrong: Flex looks incredible, but unless I swing my career around bigtime, I'm a Flasher at heart. A Flasher who happens to want a better scripting IDE.) I'm looking at Flex Builder 2 as a hazy, hazy preview of what might be available in Flash 9 -- which may or may not be a realistic practice -- but at least I'm getting familiar with AS3. Thanks for such an early release!
Posted by: David at October 25, 2005 12:52 PM