Writing the Flex 101 Series on Community MX
Since early 2006 I’ve been authoring articles as a staff writer for Community MX, an online magazine and tutorial resource. It is a wonderful journey of discovery, which I came to define whist I was teaching at Humber College: that you only truly know what you know until you teach it, or in this case, write about it.
In each article, in each tutorial I write, I discover something new about what I do, programming with Adobe Flash Platform technologies. This is primarily because I need to be writing it from the perspective of someone who does not know what I know, so I cannot assume anything except a certain baseline of knowledge vaguely defined by the scope and difficulty rating of the article. That’s the challenge of technical writing: it makes me a better communicator and a better programmer.
In August of this year, I began writing a new series to test my knowledge of Flex fundamentals, and to share certain tricks I have picked up along the way. The series is called the Flex 101 series, currently up to Part 13, with many more to come.
Flex 101: Part 1 - Introducing Adobe Flex 2
Flex 101: Part 2 - What’s New In Flash Player 9
Flex 101: Part 3 - Using Flex Builder 2
Flex 101: Part 4 - Building in Design Mode
Flex 101: Part 5 - Using MXML
Flex 101: Part 6 - Components and Databinding
Flex 101: Part 7 - Events
Flex 101: Part 8 - AS3 in MXML
Flex 101: Part 9 - Custom MXML Components
Flex 101: Part 10 - Databinding Custom Components
Flex 101: Part 11 - The Event Class
Flex 101: Part 12 - Using the Flex 2 Debugger
Flex 101: Part 13 - Declaring Events in AS3
The first few articles in the series are free, with the rest available at $4 US. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did writing them!