A couple of weeks ago I stopped by at our publisher's offices (Sys-Con Media) and they showed me our Flex book book with correct cover, but all pages were blank. Yesterday, I've got an email from them with the words, "Yakov your book is ready, stop b

Event-driven programming model offers an excellent architecture based on loosely-coupled components consuming and throwing events. This simply means that a properly designed component knows how to perform some functionality and notifies the outside w

In XML, namespaces are used to avoid potential naming conflicts with other components having the same names. Flex also has namespaces. Familiarity with Soprano family is a pre-requisite for reading this article.

You know the drill: a language is called object-oriented if it supports inheritance, encapsulation and polymorphism. And what do we do with interfaces?

Just finished writing a piece called "Polymorphism Without Interfaces". I challenge you to review and explain the code below (it's not Java)

In Java, if you've created an object from a particular class, you can use only properties and methods that were defined in this class. This is not the case in ActionScript 3.

This is the video from our recent presentation on Adobe Flex.

Comments on a discussion that is going on at JavaLobby about the future of Java on desktop

I did a mini research on what's happening under the hood when Flash Player 9 loads and starts a Flex 2 application.

Adobe Flex 2 has been released as planned. The first question is how much, the second, is where to get it from, and the last one, how to start using it for a living.