I’m just excerpting my email response to one ‘Abe’, who used my contact form when I wasn’t looking and whose email therefore has languished for a few weeks elsewhere in a barely-looked-at account… I hope it will help the others who keep turning up at my flex/eclipse* article from ages ago:

“That article was written a long time ago, and Flash/Flex is not really my core activity or focus. However, if you are still interested in this technology, I strongly recommend that you abandon the eclipse** approach and get a much faster, lightweight tool: FlashDevelop. Continue reading →

On one of those rare occasions that I could be arsed to go out of my way to use precious “day-off” hours to tinker with software, I decided to find out how hard it would be to build flex apps without Adobe Flex Builder. With excellent (if outdated) starting points such as Darren Schall’s post and another update from Todd Sharp at cfsilence , I couldn’t really go wrong.

Barring a few hiccups, I was able to stand back and marvel at how awesome it is when bits of software from different walks of life just come together and play nice…

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