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The tweetcoding learning experience

The tweetcoding learning experience

I quickly became interested in addicted to Grant Skinner’s genius idea: tweetcoding. What is it? It’s a programming challenge where you try to develop “something cool” using Actionscript in 140 characters. What can you learn form 140 chars? Quite a bit actually. When the compiler strict mode is off, some very interesting shortcuts are possible. There was a different group learning dynamic that was quite interesting. Continue reading

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PureMVC Console – Shines a light inside the MVC triad

PureMVC Console – Shines a light inside the MVC triad

I was checking the PureMVC website today and came across PureMVC Console developed by the good folks at Kap Lab. This is an absolutely invaluable tool to figure out in real-time what is going on inside the Flex PureMVC framework in a running application. Continue reading

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