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Flex on Java MEAP bestseller

Jeremy Anderson — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:31:48 +0000

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).

Maven archetype for Flex-Mojos

Jeremy Anderson — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:29:33 +0000

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.

To use this new archetype all you need to do is type the following at the command prompt:

mvn archetype:create -DgroupId= \
  -DartifactId= \
  -DarchetypeGroupId=com.codeadept \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=flex-mojos-archetype \
  -DarchetypeVersion=1.0-SNAPSHOT \
  -DremoteRepositories=http://flexonjava.googlecode.com/svn/repository

Once the plugin is finished executing, you should see a standard maven project. In the src/main/flex folder, you’ll find not only a “Hello World!” Flex application named Main.mxml, but also an ActionScript class in the package you specified for your groupId called App.as. You’ll also find the FlexUnit test for this class in the src/test/flex folder under the same package called TestApp.as. Now you should be able to run mvn install and you should see a message stating that it ran 1 test and had 0 failures.

You’re now all set to develop your Flex application in a Test First fashion…

Finally made the switch

Jeremy Anderson — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:22:58 +0000

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.

First Post

Jeremy Anderson — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:27:31 +0000

Couldn’t resist…