This post has nothing to do with Flex. It’s about the frustration of being born into this country. Over time I have encountered all sort of problems related to the fact that I live in Romania : mostly related with banks, cheques and the relations with the rest of the world – civilized world. I thought it is my people’s fault, cursed their ignorance, their laziness and always tried to break the ice by showing them how cool things can be.
Now, the real story behind this post is the world’s confirmation regarding Romania. I have purchased from Skype a product named “Unlimited Europe”. What do you understand by Europe ? Because for me, the geography, the attendance to European Union some years ago confirm the fact that Romania is in Europe. What Skype thinks about that? It is NOT!
I’m looking for an answer from them on what should I do now with a product which I cannot use and had the ignorance to think that Europe means whole Europe, not Europe minus Romania.
Note : Skype was kind enough to refund me. I’ve have purchased credit from that refund and the problem is … let’s say solved on a rate of 27 euro cents per minute!
I am thrilled to find out that as of today (22nd of March) final releases of Flash Builder 4 and the Flex 4 framework are out.
Here are some resources for you to visit :
· Read Andrew Shorten’s FlexTeam <http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/> blog post
· AdobeTV: developers about Flash Builder <http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents/developers-speak-out-about-flash-builder-4/>
· AdobeTV: new Flash Platform products <http://tv.adobe.com/watch/flash-platform-in-action/introducing-new-flash-platform-tools/>
· Test drive Flex 4 <http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/testdrive/> – build an application in an hour
· Flex-in-a-week free training <http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/>
· Get the brand new Flash Builder 4 <http://www.adobe.com/go/try_flashbuilder>
After spending two hours trying to solve a bug I’ve found out that XML(null) returns an empty string. This bug seems pretty important, that’s why I’m sharing it with you. Do this :
var _test : XMLList;
var _testXML = XML(_test);
trace(_testXML.toXMLString());
What should happen, according to this : the code should throw a TypeError “A runtime error occurs (TypeError exception)”. What actually happens is the trace with an empty string.
