Meet the downloadable evangelist

by Serge Jespers on 17. Nov, 2008 in AIR, Flex, MAX2008

Have you ever wished you had an evangelist by your side every day? Oh… Really? Now that’s just weird ;-) But seriously, it’s always a good thing to be able to tap in to someone’s brain when you get stuck on something or forgot about a component’s capabilities and properties. Or maybe you just want to browse the Flex component library to get an idea of its power and possibilities.

Enter the downloadable evangelist Tour de Flex, a really cool AIR application that showcases core Flex components, AIR capabilities, Flex data access (BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services), numerous coding techniques, cloud APIs, and a growing list of community-developed components, effects, skins, and more. There are currently 217 code samples in the application but since this is an AIR application, it’s obvious that we will be updating that with new samples on a regular basis.

Tour De Flex also comes with an Eclipse plugin that allows the various samples to be searched directly from an Eclipse view window.

If you are at MAX, come and find one of us (we’re wearing a Tour de Flex shirt today) to get one of the Tour De Flex USB sticks or go ahead and download it from http://flex.org/tour.

Kudos to Greg Wilson, Christophe Coenraets and James Ward who started this idea.

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8 Responses to “Meet the downloadable evangelist”

  1. João Fernandes 17. Nov, 2008 at 4:17 pm #

    The eclipse plug-in URL seems to be broken for now http://tourdeflex.adobe.com/eclipse, I got connection interrupted.

  2. Serge Jespers 17. Nov, 2008 at 4:25 pm #

    At the moment, the download site is experiencing some issues. I’m sure it will be solved soon.

  3. Daisy 17. Nov, 2008 at 4:38 pm #

    I absolutely love it!

    A lot of great examples on how to use components in an application, coding techniques, data access etc.

  4. Wim 17. Nov, 2008 at 5:49 pm #

    This is really great.

    Looks like you’ll be flipping burgers soon Serge :-)

    Kick some at MAX dude!

  5. Chris Black 17. Nov, 2008 at 6:35 pm #

    Great application. It will be very useful to have all of these code samples in one place.

  6. thecodecutter 19. Nov, 2008 at 1:14 pm #

    hi. very useful app indeed. firewall at work stops me installing the cfeclipse plugin so i manually downloaded from home the jar file but could do with some help with how to install it thanks.

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    Great AIR application with open source Flex examples: http://tinyurl.com/6cxl22

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