Whats with the ‘Fx’ prefixing?

If you follow the commits in the Gumbo SDK trunk, you may have noticed that about a week ago, a series of name changes were checked in. Additionally, a bunch of Gumbo specs and the Gumbo component architecture whitepaper are being updated on the Flex open-source site to reflect several name changes. A big chunk of these name changes were polish – temporary names like ‘skinZZ’ were changed to something less embarrassing (‘skinClass’ for those who want to know). Additionally, our API review board (yes, we care that much!) blessed many of the Gumbo ActionScript API’s and this resulted in some API changes that finally got checked in. But, the big change, which drove our build-engineer insane for a few days, were the numerous class re-namings that were checked into trunk.

Let me rewind for a second.

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More Gumbo Specs Posted, part deux!

If you’ve been paying attention to the Flex open-source site, you may have noticed that many specs have been getting updated (I’ll blog about that shortly) and many new specs have gone up! So, for those wanting to see all the goodies being baked into Gumbo, check these specs out:

Oh, and Happy Diwali!
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Matthew Helm Chotin

You would think, after working on Flex for more then five years, that I know most of the sordid details regarding my Flex teammates’ lives. Well…no. In this morning’s status meeting, I was privy to some new information. Matt Chotin, Product Manager extraordinaire for Flex, has a middle name. And it’s Helm! Like Helm’s Deep!

This might be the coolest middle name ever!

It’s safe to say, this bit of news definitely made my morning.

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Josh Buhler, Brian Telintelo – See you at MAX!

In case you didn’t know, anyone can contribute code to the Flex SDK by submitting patches. The Flex SDK team started an incentive program where every 3 (accepted) patches got you an Adobe-related book off your Amazon wishlist and every 10 (accepted) patches got two lucky ducks a free ticket into MAX care of Adobe. Well, those two lucky ducks are Josh Buhler and Brian Telintelo!

Congratulations guys! Can’t wait to see you at MAX, please seek me out to say hi. I feel like I know you guys after perusing, assigning, and approving most of your patch submissions.

Go community, go!

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