Here is a list of keyboard shortcuts that I use regularly and that helps me with life in Flex Builder. Obviously the list is not exhaustive but here are the most common: (feel free to leave yours in the comments to the list ...)

Edition code Flex / AIR:

• Clear the current line: Ctrl + D
• Or move the selected rows: Altl + Up Arrow or Down
• Duplicate the selected rows or Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow or Down
• Go to the location of the next or previous edition: Alt + Left or Right (Apple + Alt + Arrow on the Mac)
• Indent several lines selected: Tab or Shift + Tab (for désindenter)
• Find next occurrence of the selection in the file: Ctrl + K (Ctrl + Shift + K to above)
• Organize imports: Ctrl + Shift + O
• And Go to see the definition of a function or property in the file: Ctrl + O
• To review the selection: Ctrl + Shift + C (Marche in MXML, AS and CSS)
• Search the entire file: Ctrl + Shift + F
• Maximize / Minimize active editor: Ctrl + M
• Put the selected text in capitals: Ctrl + Shift + X (Ctrl + Shift + Y to lowercase)
• To go to a class definition: Ctrl + Click on the name of the class
• Find references to a function in a workspace: Ctrl + Shift + G

File management:

• Opening a class from its name: Ctrl + Shift + T
• Navigate through open tabs Ctrl + Shift + Left / Right
  
• Rename a file: F2

Execution and debug:

• Set / Remove a breakpoint on the line: Ctrl + Shift + B
• Navigation on the breakpoints: F5 (Into), F6 (Over), F7 (Return) and F8 (Resume)
• Run debug mode: Alt + Shift + D and F to start the debug Flex Application
• Launch the current application: Alt + Shift + X
• Run the Flex application: Alt + Shift + F
  
• Launch application AIR: Alt + Shift + R

... And finally, the need to Copy / Paste: Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V .... Oh you know!

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Mathieu Chatel, EPITA student in Paris, warned me he holds with his school an unprecedented event on 22 January 2009 in
Local EPITA on:
"The RIAs, new internet for the digital economy."
This event is divided into three main parts:

• A forum with booths where students will present projects in direct connection with RIAs (many Flex).
• Conferences involving the 3 major players in RIA: Microsoft, Adobe and the Open-Source.
• A round table on "The RIA / Web 2.0 to upgrade the e-Government: Revolution or Evolution?"

For more information, please visit the website of the event.
And to register for the event there are two options:

• register directly from the site of the event
• use the direct form

If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me, I will pass questions to the students EPITA.

We will look back on this day with more ...

Camille Roux has posted a presentation as part of an HMI (Human Machine Interface) in an engineering school in Nice.
The content of this presentation entitled: "When there are rich clients in the Air (Adobe Flex and RIA).

Thank you to him

Developers Adobe Flex professionals have so far been frustrated by the lack of unit testing tools for Flex. Although FlexUnit has been developed for some time, developers have to Flex unit test tool worthy of the name ...

Rather than wait for someone (Adobe?) To do so Gorilla Logic has created a system called FlexMonkey open sourced. FlexMonkey allows us to record and read the interactions made with a flex interface, and generates ActionScript tests using scripts that can easily be included in a process of integration. It uses the Flex Automation API and was created by extending automation Adobe graphic AutoQuick.
The growing demand for such a tool was that even if the release is out there just 2 months, an active community has already begun this rough around open source project that has been downloaded nearly 1000 times.

For more info on the project FlexMonkey, here is a video presentation by its designers:

and resources is here: Google Code site or Gorilla Logic

Adobe has announced the immediate availability of a version of its suite LiveCycle Enterprise Suite mode hosted on the infrastructure of Amazon cloud computing (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - EC2). LiveCycle ES Developer Express incorporates all the features that can be found later in the editor. Remember that Adobe LiveCycle ES is an integrated J2EE server solution for businesses that combines data collection, information security, document production and management processes of transformation of contents, and in many formats for the exchange: PDF, Flash (. swf), XML, HTML, etc..

According to Adobe, this new offering helps accelerate testing and deployment of applications. Indeed, a "virtual development environment for self-testing, development and testing of applications Adobe LiveCycle ES is offered to developers of enterprise solutions the members of the Adobe Enterprise Developer. This allows us to exploit the Following the editor without having to install or configure. The Adobe LiveCycle ES can run as server instances on the platform Amazon EC2. Developers can start and test phases and to amend their applications without having to invest in a development environment.

A winter gift came from the Adobe website by Thibault and Michael who have posted some videos in English dedicated to some aspects of Adobe Flex on Adobe TV. Here is a list of videos:

- And the Flex Charting Components: implementation of graphs in a Flex application.
- Communication between AIR and LiveCycle: Communication between AIR and LiveCycle ES.
- Generating PDF in Flex with LiveCycle Data Services
- Generating PDF with AlivePDF (open source)
- WiiFlash: how to connect a WiiMote with a Flex application
- Programming in AS3 Bitmap optimize application performance Flex

Enjoy

All authors of Flex-info.fr join me in wishing you a wonderful year 2009: that the MXML, the ActionScript and success accompany you in all your projects!

I also hope that Flex Builder does not take you too the head and that becomes your Flex dada!

So far, the console from SONY only allowed to run the Flash Player 7 and Adobe Flex was therefore not available on the PS3. No announcement was made at MAX and we thought that was the Player 9 not be flown on the console until Renaun write this article ...

He announced a very good news: Flash Player 9, you can develop games and run on 4 different platforms: Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Playstation 3! What other development environment games give this possibility? ;) Another interesting feature of the PS3 is that it allows up to 7 players in the same network for Flash game and in the same room. I think it promises a new interactive gaming experience that Flash Player has never been so far!

If you know of cool Flash games on PS3 do not hesitate to tell us!

Here is a video game TicTacToe Flash coded by Tom Ortega running on a PlayStation 3:

Source: Tom Ortega