Attention all Flash developers in the Reading, Pa area!!!

Be sure to check out the new Adobe Flash User Group in Reading. The Reading Flash Alliance is a group of Flash talent made up of local firms and freelancers who share ideas, knowledge, and talk shop. They are having a meeting next month and are giving away some prizes including a copy of Creative Suite 5. Pretty sick.

Go check 'em out. www.readingflashalliance.com

I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro that replaces my primary Dell desktop. But now that I'm on a Mac, I am no longer able to use Flash Develop as my ActionScript editor since its developed in .NET. So I've turned to Flex Builder 3 as my ActionScript editor of choice. It is a really great editor, although it does seem a bit bulky compared to Flash Develop.

So that led me to want to learn more about the Flex Framework (MXML). Something that I've been wanting to do for some time now, but now have more of an urgent reason. So currently, I am watching the Flex 3 Essential Training at Lynda.com. (Great site!) I figured that this will give me a great overview of Flex and a tour of the Flex Builder IDE.

I realize that I can get Parallels or Fusion for the Mac so I can run Windows based applications. Perhaps I will eventually. But this way I'll be able to get more into Flex like I've been wanting to.

We'll see in a few weeks how I like the transition.