FlexOOP

This will be the start of a new series of blog posts for me focused around my flexdateutils library that I’ve published to Google code at http://code.google.com/p/flexdateutils/

I first began writing this code in response to some of what I felt were shortcomings to the Flex framework in handling date manipulation. It seemed that just about every other programming language had its own library of date functions, but the few that Flex had made it very difficult to do anything to a date unless you managed it yourself. And so was born FlexDateUtils.

Each day I will try to post at least one method from the library and explain the code a little. If it’s a very basic method, I’ll probably add a couple more methods. Most of the methods were created from ColdFusion’s date library as those have been very useful to me whenever I have had any kind of date manipulation. I have very rarely had to add any of my own code to get back what I needed from ColdFusion’s date functions.

I am hoping this will be a useful group of functions to other developers, and, who knows, perhaps Adobe will even think that it is something that should be added to their standard Flex framework

I just finished filling out a survey from Adobe about a potential new product, Flex for mobile devices.

I’m not sure what mobile devices or if it will work similar to flash-lite (only better, perhaps ), but it definitely sounds like it has potential.  I would love to be able to write my apps for mobile devices, perhaps without a whole lot of code refactoring from my original Flex/AIR applications, and then deploy them to anyone browsing my site from a phone.  Very cool!

It still sounds like it’s in the planning stage (probably gauging user/developer interest from the survey), but hopefully Adobe has already begun working on this because I know this is something I, and probably many others, cannot wait to dig into.