While I certainly enjoy dreaming up big ideas, developing them, and sharing them with you, I have many other shorter things to report on. So I am launching my own blog here on skipslate. Not only will it enable me to keep my journal a little more manageable, but I hope to offer more goodness to you, more often. So just go there!
When the desire to create an MXML tag library for Dreamweaver came up, the decision had to be made. Should we spend a weekend running through all 900 or so Flex classes by hand, or write a 250 line Perl module to do it for us? Thankfully, the weekend was saved and the Flex::Documentation Perl module was written.
Although currently in beta state, the Adobe Flex-Ajax Bridge (FABridge) has proven to be a simple, easy to use library which exposes Flex applications to traditional DHTML applications. However, current documentation, code samples, and general misinformation are preventing the exercising of this important technology. This article will present 10 simple steps to becoming a master of the FABridge.