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James Ward surprised us today with a patch for Flex Builder 3 that makes it work with Eclipse Galileo SR1. James solved the dreaded "An internal build error has occurred" problem. His solution was to replace ProblemManager with his...

FLARManager is a lightweight framework that makes building FLARToolkit augmented reality applications easier. When I first came across FLARToolkit, I was simultaneously excited and stymied -- there seemed to be so much potential, but it was difficult to use and even harder to understand. Augmented reality is still a long way from maturity, and leveraging FLARToolkit on the ubiquity of Flash Player provides a great opportunity for further exploring its possibilities. FLARManager aims to provide quicker entry to the technology, to allow a focus on new forms of interaction via marker detection and augmented reality.

Flex Builder complains when a CSS definition exists for components that are not used in a project.  I do not find this helpful.If you click on the filter button in the Problems panel, a dialog will appear that allows you...

FlashCamp is a free developer event taking place on May 29th in San Francisco. Session topics include Flex 4 (Gumbo), Flex Builder 4, and Flash Catalyst. With these advances in RIA development it will be an event worth attending. You...

Adobe has a terrific offer for unemployed programmers and students: a free, fully enabled copy of Flex Builder 3!  See for yourself at https://freeriatools.adobe.comThe criteria for unemployed programmers is:To receive the product under this program, you must attest to the...

MAX has come and some have a slew of announcements from Adobe. This post includes new information on the following products: Adobe® Flash Catalyst™ previously code named Thermo Adobe Flex® Builder™ "Gumbo" Adobe® AIR™ 1.5 Adobe® Flash® Player 10 for 64-bit Linux Adobe® Flash® Player for Smartphones.

Having covered the finer points of installing Flex Builder last time, both in it's standalone form and as a plugin, we'll now focus on making sense of the work environment within Flex Builder. Novice Flex users should expect to take away from this article an understanding of the organizational structure of the Flex development environment within Flex Builder 3, as well as an appreciation for the power of the Flex Builder workbench.

It's likely that if you're interested in learning about Flex, you've already downloaded and experimented with Flex Builder 3. In the next few posts we'll be exploring Flex Builder. We'll start with the installation, and then go into more depth as we explain how the premiere tool for building Flex applications works. We've already made mention of the fact that Flex Builder is based on Eclipse, and we'll be discussing this useful tool as well.

Learn how to enhance your stand-alone installation of Flex Builder with some of your favorite features from Eclipse's Java Developers Toolkit and Web Standard Tools by dropping a few jars into your plugins directory. In this entry we'll discuss the TODO/FIXME tool, Snippets, Mylyn integration with Trac, and a fix to menu crashes in Leopard.

Last week Ubuntu 8.04 was released, and I have got to say, I am impressed. Of course, once the OS was installed, my next logical step was to get Flex Builder for Linux working on it. Here's a step-by-step guide to what I did to get Flex Builder working on there.

DARE is a simple AIR server created by Ted Patrick that allows developers to re-build their AIR apps as easily as they rebuild their AJAX apps. In this entry I'll review DARE and discuss my experiences building a quick and dirty AIR application out of the InsideRIA homepage.

Adobe has launched their 1st public alpha for building AIR applications on Linux. Included in this alpha are the AIR runtime, sample applications, and the AIR SDK.

The beta version of Flex Builder 3 has been updated to beta 3 and now includes support for building AIR applications on Linux.