May 28
Flex Application Size

By default Flex Builder compile application to debug build,

Dont forget before deploying your application to production

Apr 26
Getter/Setter Generator

One time when I started to develop project based on Cairngorm Framework, I had a task to create a lot of Value Objects (VO)

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Apr 22
Flex Font Embedding

When you embed fonts, Flex stores all of the font information in the SWF file so the font is displayed properly even if it’s not installed on the user’s computer. If you use a font in your sources that isn’t installed on a user’s system, and you don’t embed the font in the SWF file, Flash Player automatically selects a substitute font to use instead. Sometimes you have to embed font event if you are sure that it is installed on a user’s system, because to mask, tween and skew dynamic text fields possible only with embedded fonts.
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Apr 18
Localizing Flex Applications with ANT

To make Internationalization/Localization for your Flex applications very easy
Lets split whole process by steps
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Apr 6
Build optimized RSLs with ANT

Runtime Shared Libraries (RSLs) are libraries of components that are shared by applications in the same domain.
You can shrink the size of your application’s resulting SWF file by externalizing shared assets into standalone files that you can separately download and cache on the client. Multiple Flex applications can load these shared assets at runtime, but each client need only to download them once. These shared files are called Runtime Shared Libraries.
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