Below is the presentation I'll be giving tomorrow night at the Boston Flash User Group, Brightcove edition. The avid fan will notice that it's partially material rehashed from this blog. But I investigated a few new things, and the discussion...
I just did some stopwatch performance tests of Flash Builder 4 against Flex Builder 3, using the same files that I did for the faster Flex 3 SDK tests. Here are the results: Build All, in seconds, after changing two...
We had a "bring your questions" session at our last Boston Flash User Group meeting at Brightcove, and I thought three of the items I answered would be helpful for more people to read. Bindable Getters: If you're creating a...
It was pointed out to me by someone at Brightcove that I would fail a grade school Math test. I've been saying that the Flex 3 SDK improvements give a 20% compiler speedup. So how did I come up with...
At Brightcove I've spent some time creating faster Flex 3 SDKs by merging some changes from the Flex 4 SDK. It's not a lot of changes, but it makes a fairly significant improvement in compilation speeds in Flex Builder. I...
I've been spending some time at Brightcove trying to figure out ways to speed up Flex Builder for some of the larger applications we're developing here. I have a few things I'm working on myself, but I wanted to hear...
Two Flex projects were recently released on Adobe Labs, Flex Ant Tasks and Flex Compiler Shell. You would expect the Ant tasks to be the more exciting of the two from the build perspective, but the compiler shell (fcsh) could...
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