jun :: realeyes

I’m co-teaching an online course at the local college with David Hassoun.  Part of the materials that we’ve been building for our students are screen casts.  We figured they’d be a little more lively than a slide presentation.  We also figured they’d help keep students awake when they’re working through the courseware at 3am.  I know…I’ve been there!

If you’re just getting started with Flex development, we’re making these screen casts available to you as they’re created.

This week’s topic was about getting started with Flex development and dealt primarily with the tooling and resources.  So in these screen casts you will see the following topics:

• Installing and verifying a successful installation of Flex Builder 3 including a quick walk through of some of the important items that were installed.
• The Tour De Flex application and the companion plugin.  Install and a quick demonstration of how to use it as a resource tool.  (Near the end ran into some quirks with the companion plugin…pretty entertaining.)
• SVN, Subclipse, and third party code.  Quick overview of why you’d want Subclipse, how to install it into Flex Builder, and how to use it to pull down third party code, in our case flexlib, from a remote SVN respository.  Also, a quick demonstation of how to take that code, create a Flex Library project, and use one of the components in the library within your application. Fire!  Thanks Doug.

Enjoy…and heck…I may start doing this more than blogging…typing tutorials can get so tedious.

Flex Tutorial: Installing Flex Builder 3 from Jun Heider on Vimeo.

Tutorial: Installing and Using Tour De Flex from Jun Heider on Vimeo.

Tutorial: SVN, Subclipse, and Third Party Code from Jun Heider on Vimeo.