I recently started a new job and was offered the choice of PC or Mac to develop on. In fact, it was between a PC laptop and desktop (both I7 quad cores) or a single MacBook Pro.

Compared to authoring to Android, publishing to an iOS device from a PC is a pain. It beats spending over 1K for an Mac Mini just for that purpose. And hats off to Adobe for finding a way to make it possible.

It finally establishes Flex mobile as a legitimate cross-platform approach. No-one knows/cares what tooling I used to develop a free-standing app, and they certainly don’t want to hear that their device won’t run my app because it isn’t certified to run the latest version of AIR. As a developer I can’t afford to guess how many devices I am abandoning when I move from 4.5 to 4.5.1 SDK.

I am circling back to the Adobe multi-platform development approach now that I am using ActionScript 3 and MXML all day. I just don’t have the bandwidth right now to be productive in Haxe, HTML5 or other language variants with my new full-time Flex responsibilities.

Layering on enterprise development tools and methods on my personal development environment.

  or  … coping with the risk of a system-wide momentary critical failure.

I assumed Enterprise meant you installed the Flash Builder plugin in your existing Eclipse instead of getting Flash Builder standalone. Wrong!

6 Challenges & Advantages of Working in an Enterprise Framework

I recently started working on an enterprise Java/Flex UI development project. (Yes these are still happening.) What’s that like Dave?

A few tips on a common, potentially frustrating task.