Flight {heart} 360|Flex

I just got word that I can pick up our Flight t-shirts on Friday. Provided by ZenPrint these bad boys were designed by Bryant Robertson specifically for the 360|Flex Conference (if you haven’t registered yet you better get tickets). The ZenStudio design tool was built on an earlier version of Flight and the ZenPrint guys have graciously offered to sponsor the project at the conference. Thanks again, you guys rock! And of course props to our designer, we’re told we have the coolest logo of any other framework.

Flight is an application framework for ActionScript 3 (Flash & Flex) – you can read more about it on the website. My brother Jacob and I will be handing out the shirts and some print material at the conference where we’re making some announcements for the Flight Framework.

Hope to see you there!

What Are Namespaces All About?

I always wondered where I would end up using custom namespaces in ActionScript 3. Now that I’ve been using them I have found a few bugs and gotchas, tips and tricks, and now I generally understand namespaces better (or think I do).

(when reading this article it will help if you already have some familiarity with namespaces in Flash & Flex. To learn more about namespaces awesomeness, John Lindquist has an excellent video post that covers the concepts really well and goes into some advanced topics)

To start with I’d like to present a unique review of namespaces concepts (this isn’t pasted from the documentation, so it might be either 1-more helpful or 2-just plain wrong). There are reportedly 5 types of namespaces, but I’m going to say there are only 4 (this is the helpful/wrong portion).
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