I was browsing through my daily digest this morning and found two things that I thought are worth listening to.  There are two new podcast on Flex Frameworks, one is from The Flex Show w/ Thomas Burleson talking about Cairngorm and Universal Minds Cairngorm Extensions. I havent used these extensions myself yet, but after listening to the podcast, Tom talks about a lot of things I run into using Cairngorm.  As a serious user of Cairngorm and other design patterns I plan on using these puppies in the very near future along with Transfer.  My goal is that it will make me more effecient and I can leverage some more best practices when building RIA Apps in Flex/AIR.

The second podcast I listened two was from Coldfusion Weekly, the topic is Flex frameworks and there is a pretty good round table discussion on the topic, honestly I havent heard a poor round table discussion from these guys yet (nice job!)....

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Interesting read from Flex Developers Journal, I was able to find a related Adobe press release to back it up, here is the link to the article "Adobe Reorgs: Mandels and Ramadan Gone, Lynch in Charge of the Whole Magilla". 

The move from a strategic stand point makes total sense.  Having mobile and platform operations working closely together under one "umbrella" that is being led by Kevin Lynch, will help support Adobe's current momentum through 2008 and into 2009+ with their Flex, AIR, Coldfusion, LiveCycle product lines (all of which are linked well to each other). 

I just want to know when I will start seeing Flex apps on mobile devices! (like the iPhone)

I am in the market to buy a digital camera to support my new photography hobby.  I currently own a very old Canon AE-1 Program that I started to use to learn photography.  I feel I could learn faster with a digital camera because I can see my pictures a bit quicker because I am not constrained by developing the film.  Currently I have to write how I took the shot down, the date/time, the conditions etc... and once I get the pictures back I can look at how I can improve that shot.  For me thats just to slow, so I figure a digital would be better in that sense.  So with that... here are the cameras I am looking at and I would like some recommendations on alternatives and comments/suggestions on these two models.

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi

Nikon D60

The second items is I would like to purchase some digital photography software. I currently own Adobe CS3 Suite, so I already have Photoshop, but I looked over both Aperature and Lightroom and am trying to decide which one I want to buy.  I am still learning Photoshop to be honest, for design stuff for the web I usually just use Fireworks.  I know there are some work flow advantages by going with Lightroom, but is it better than Aperature?

I look forward to your suggestions!

I ran into a small problem today with Flex Builder 3 / Flex 3 Eclipse Plugin.  I have a project that is currently using the Flex 2 SDK when its compiled I don't have a lot of time on this project and we are not making it compatiable with Flex 3 (just yet). 

The problem I found was since the application is using the Flex 2 SDK Flex Builder 3 does not know that you have a Flex Builder 2 Charting License.  So when you compile the application any of your charting components have that "Flex Charting Trial" watermark in its place.  This occurs even if you have Flex 3 Pro and only occurs if your using the Flex 2 Hotfix 3 SDK to compile.

The fix is simple, but tedious to find. I only wish the Adobe Flex team would of included the capability to add the Flex 2 Charting Serial when you do the installation. 

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Quick note -- hopefully it will save some of you some time.  The VSS Plugin on sourceforge.net does not work in the standalone FB3 IDE.  It only works in Eclipse.  So if you want to use it for your Flex projects, make sure you use the Flex 3 Eclipse Plugin.  Once you do that, all will be great and you can continue to use VSS for your source control.

The reason the VSS Plugin doesn't work, is because custom IDE's built around the Eclipse platform do not always include the normal utility tools.  Mostly because they don't use them and it makes the IDE they are building package smaller.  This is probably what happened, the VSS plugin requires something that doesn't ship with the Builder. 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vssplugin/

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=flex_eclipse&loc=en_us