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Help promote the Flex BugQuash

Feb 24th

Posted by Nate Beck in BugQuash

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Many of us have been working diligently on this Flex BugQuash event. Now it’s your turn to help us. Here is a promotional banner that I’d love to see littered all over the web.

BugQuash, release your inner Ninja!

Don’t like it? Make your own, all of the NinjaQ assets and logo assets can be downloaded from —> here.

Thanks for the help, and don’t forget to register for the event (it’s free) —> here.

Register for the Flex SDK BugQuash! It’s free!

Feb 19th

Posted by Nate Beck in Actionscript

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Soooo… it is 4:46 am here… Pacific Standard Time.  I stayed up all night finishing up the registration system so I could get this information out to all of you.

Registrations for the first Flex SDK BugQuash event are now open.  It’s free, so go ahead and sign up.  We’re very excited about it.

Register for the event —> here.

March 28th, 10am – 8pm in Seattle, WA

We will also be broadcasting the event, live. So even if you can’t attend physically… you can attend virtually (very ninja-like)! More information about the event can be found on BugQuash.com.

Night all!

:: Update ::

My bad, my bad.. I wrote the wrong time on this post. The actual time is from 10am – 8pm. My apologizes for the confusion.

Farewell Flex / AS3 Reference Guide :(

Feb 10th

Posted by Nate Beck in Actionscript

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So this morning was working on an Adobe AIR prototype. With my headphones on and music playing, I may have gotten a bit into the music. Long story short… I knocked over my Pepsi Zero onto my Adobe technology platform ActionScript Reference (the cool pamphlet one that I got from MAX). It’s ruined, so I guess it’s back to the online Language Reference.

Curse you Ben Folds with your melodic twists and turns and memorable lyrics.

Farewell old friend… you will be sorely missed.

Tip of the Day – A new way to get involved with Flex

Feb 7th

Posted by Nate Beck in Flex

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So the reason I haven’t posted a tip the past couple of days is because I have been working on a new project.

Check it out here —> Bug Quash

Please vote on the poll. We’re trying to see how much interest there is in this kind of event.

Any questions, comments, ideas, complaints, suggestions, etc… please post them below.

p.s. I know… this wasn’t really a tip… but I’m tired and it’s beddy time for Nate.

:: Update ::

New information including how to sign up for notifications —> here.

Tip of the Day – Flex Coding Conventions

Feb 4th

Posted by Nate Beck in Actionscript

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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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Tip of the Day – Understanding the Flex bug system (JIRA)

Feb 3rd

Posted by Nate Beck in Flex

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Today a bug that I have been watching was resolved as ‘Not a Bug’. In the QA team’s defense, the original bug description was not very clear. I have commented on the bug explaining why it needed to be reopened.

This situation brings up a valid question.

How do we (the Flex community) effectively help the Flex SDK team in a way that doesn’t hinder them? Let’s face it, spamming the inbox of Flex team members isn’t going to get us anywhere.

As I was contemplating this situation, I opened up my Google Reader. It turns out that Joan (a member of the Flex SDK QA team) has a series of posts discussing tips and tricks to using JIRA, along with what we can do to escalate issues that are important.

So for today’s tip, I’m going to provide links to these great posts:

I’ll update these links as she posts more.

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