Total Training's Adobe Flex 2 Rich Internet Applications

Posted At : October 18, 2006 4:34 PM | Posted By : Jeff Fleitz
Related Categories: FlexBuilder, Training, Flex
This has been mentioned on several blogs already, but I will add my endorsement anyway. If you're like me and don't have a week or the money to spend on a dedicated Flex training class, there is another way to get visual hands-on Flex training.

Ben Forta mentioned this product on his blog a couple months ago, and I bought it ten minutes later. I am just getting around to watching it, and it is worth every penny of the $150 price tag.

Total Training for Adobe Flex 2 Rich Internet Applications is a 8 hour DVD training video hosted by Adobe trainer/evangelist James Talbot, that is really the best video training I have ever experienced. Talbot is very engaging as walks you through multiple lessons that deal with all aspects of Flex development best practices using Adobe's FlexBuilder 2. It's got a nice bookmark feature that will allow you to return to mulitple areas for further review.

A word of caution for ColdFusion developers: while there is plenty of content regarding data access using XML and web services, the examples are platform agnostic. You won't find examples for hooking up to a CF server and pulling data from your MS SQL/MySQL database, for instance.

If you don't have FlexBuilder yet, you can easily download a 30-day evaluation copy.

Highly recommended.

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Curing FlexBuilder Memory Bloat

Posted At : October 17, 2006 10:32 AM | Posted By : Jeff Fleitz
Related Categories: FlexBuilder, Flex, Eclipse
I picked this tip up on the FlexCoders mailing list, which was originally posted on Ted Patick's blog and thought I would share it. It's no secret that if you are working with several open projects at a time in Eclipse (and therefore FlexBuilder), that memory consumption can get out of control, with Eclipse gobbling upwards of a half a gig of RAM or more in some cases. Often times this results in the developer having to kill FlexBuilder to recover the memory and be able to continue work. Some developers have been partitioning separate workspaces for each project, which solves the memory issue, but makes it harder to work with related projects. Fortunately there is an Eclipse plugin called the Kyrsoft Memory Monitor, which can do your garbage collection for you and recover unused memory. The plugin is highly configurable and will allow you to activate automatic GC when RAM consumption reaches a certain threshold. It will also optionally place a small visual usage meter in the status bar. Memory Monitor Console

You can install the plugin from http://www.kyrsoft.com/updates/

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