Tip of the Day – Flex Coding Conventions

Today’s tip is a short one… I have begun planning a very exciting Flex-centric event that is going to be held up here in Seattle. More on that later though.

Your tip for the day… The Flex SDK team has a guide that explains the coding conventions that they use within the SDK (for the most part).

Flex SDK coding conventions and best practices

I agree with almost all of the conventions they list here. If you’re planning on contributing the to Flex SDK, you NEED to be familiar with these conventions.

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#1 written by Erik van der Neut
about 1 year ago

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Excellent, perfect reference! Nice to have it all clearly laid out like that. We’re about ready to be become more fascist about coding conventions here, and just pointing to this will make it a lot easier

Thanks,
Erik

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