Yesterday evening my employer presented their first Afterhours session in ages. Our guest speaker, Peter Elst, showed us in something more than 1 hour the more advanced Air api’s like the “Windowing”, “File”, “Drag and Drop”, “SQLite” and the “Upgrade” api. Peter used 5 little examples showing us step by step howto use the different Api’s. My hands are itching to make some great apps with Air really soon.

On the 18th en 19th of Februrary i’m presenting a 2 day course on Adobe Air with Flex at multimediacollege, so for everybody who wan’t to learn how to use Air in depth you can contact me or my employer to get your seat reserved.

It’s very posible that looking through the different views in Flexbuilder you noticed that there is something called tasklist. It’s a kind of todo manager for eclipse. The problem i had with this thing is that you had to right click on it and add a task manualy. Lazy as i am a started looking for a plugin that automatically extracts “todo items” out of my actionscript code and quiet quickly i found this plugin.

I just came around something crazy in Flex, it happened before but i just forgot about it. I made a datagrid inside a custom component and used the creationComlete to call an init function. In that init function i set the dataprovider property to an ArrayCollection (defined in a singleton). In this case the databinding was not working, when i changed my code to following: <mx:DataGrid id="dgrCourses" dataProvider="{BackendModel.getInstance().info.courseList}"/> everything works fine.