Code Adept

Today I noticed that Flex on Java is now listed at #8 on “Manning’s Bestselling Early Access Titles” on their homepage (http://manning.com).

As I was going through and creating the sample project for the book I’m working on (http://manning.com/allmon), I realized that there wasn’t a Maven archetype for creating Flex projects using Flex-Mojos.  The closest I found was an archetype that someone has created for using the israfil maven plugin, but I wasn’t satisfied with using that plugin and changing the pom to use the Flex-Mojos plugin…so I created a Maven archetype for generating projects to be used by Flex-Mojos.

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I was inspired by Matt Raible’s post here, so I thought I’d share a picture of what appeared on my door step this week.

I’ll post up some opinions after I’ve had a chance to play with it more.  I’ve decided to make an effort to not treat this as a Windows PC with a prettier interface, and will be attempting to fully immerse myself in the Mac experience and take the time to learn how to use it like a Mac.