Konstantin Kovalev "aka Constantiner" is an independent contractor presently working for Farata Systems. He is professional Flex developer and former Flash developer. Konstantin is active participant of Russian Flex community and creator of Russian blog resource www.riapriority.com dedicated to RIAs and Flash platform. Konstantin lives in St.Petersburg, Russia.
Why Ant?
Typically, Flex developers use Flex Builder IDE, but Adobe also offers free
Flex SDK, and you should know how to build your applications without Flex
Builder, and here’s why:
• There is no simple way to share all your project settings
(including absolute source paths) with another user.
• If your project consists of many subprojects (some library
projects, server side J2EE code) you may need to build each project in
different IDEs, in a specific order.
• At the time of this writing, there is no Flex Builder for Linux
and only beta version for Macs exists. What about cross-platform?
• And finally, Flex Builder costs money.
If you came from the Java world you knew the answer: projects could be built
with Apache Ant tool. But if yo... (more)
Flash programmers are celebrating one of the last Adobe Lab's releases, and
beta releases of some of the CS4 family products. It's public beta of Flash
Player 10.
Let's review some of the new great features of the upcoming Flash Player:
It is the first time when Windows, Mac and Linux versions of Flash Player are
released simultaneously. And now it supports Ubuntu too.
Another great annou... (more)
Konstantin Kovalev "aka Constantiner" is an independent contractor presently working for Farata Systems. He is professional Flex developer and former Flash developer. Konstantin is active participant of Russian Flex community and creator of Russian blog resource www.riapriority.com dedicated to RIAs and Flash platform. Konstantin lives in St.Petersburg, Russia.
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