Thought I would share a few plugins I have in my FlexBuild 3 build. Having the right tools, plugins, and workflow setup is a big boon to productivity. Any Sr. Developer/Engineer should take time out to make sure that all the developers in your team are working with the same tools, consistent dev environment, and have a solid workflow in place. This should help you with getting some extra loving out of FlexBuilder.
What’s in your FlexBuilder?
May 27th, 2008
What Am I Reading?
May 25th, 2008
There was a time when I hated to read. Now I can’t stop ingesting programming books. Unfortunately some are tough reads so I put together a list of what I currently take with me on the subway to work.
Flex 3 + FP 10 Beta
May 19th, 2008
Eager to start playing with Flash Player 10’s new features? Myles sent me a link to this page on the Adobe Labs that talks about how to set up Flex 3 (nightly build) to compile for Flash Player 10 Beta.
Here is the tutorial.
PaperVision 3d Tutorial
May 17th, 2008
I have been fascinated with PaperVision 3d for a long time but never got around to play with it to much. I have been getting that itch again I was looking over the blog and see they now have a dev area. While looking around there I found this tutorial for setting up PaperVision in Flex and Flash. Was going to try it out this weekend and thought I would share the link.
Express Installer Utility
May 15th, 2008
When doing the home page for Heavy.com we came across a “special” bug with our Flash detection script. Apparently some people who were running FireFox and Flash Player 9.0.xx+ were not able to make it through the detection script. The issue seemed to be that the browser would throw the wrong player version to JS and JS would fail to load the site (like it should do by prompting you to upgrade) but this was happening to people who had the correct version of the player. We caught this bug in QA before launching the site but here is the class I used to get around this problem.
Flash Player 10 – beta?
May 15th, 2008
Came across this post today from flashguru.com that talks about Flash Player 10. Aparently an early release of the Flash 10 Player is available from Adobe today. Here are some really cool features I wanted to highlight from Adobe’s Site.
Nice Flex Site
May 11th, 2008
I have not been a big fan of Flex sites. For the most part they all look alike and the component framework lets developers get away with creating something and not needed to have a single design bone in their body. My opinion changed after I found this site grooveshark.com. This link goes to the lite player but the main site is worth a look over too.
Welcome to The Flash Art Of War, my blog on Flash development. My name is Jesse Freeman and I have been an interactive designer/developer for over 10 years. I am the Lead Flash Developer at 
