http://www.joeberkovitz.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 10 May 2008 12:27:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just dropping a quick note to followers of Flexcover and the ongoing AS3 code coverage adventure. It's been a super busy time at work for me, but I've found enough spare cycles to put together a working branch coverage feature. It's pretty cool: instead of toting up the number ... http://www.joeberkovitz.com/blog/2008/05/10/flexcover-branches-out-soon/ The informative, articulate and personable David Coletta will be speaking about Buzzword's testing approach at the upcoming Boston Flex Users Group meeting on Tuesday, 5/13 at Adobe Newton's offices. If you haven't checked out David's blog, The Joy Of Flex, well, you really should! He is a great ... http://www.joeberkovitz.com/blog/2008/05/10/david-coletta-bostonfug/ I am very pleased to announce the initial experimental release of Flexcover, an open-source code coverage tool suite for Flex, AIR and AS3. The project lives on Google Code at http://code.google.com/p/flexcover/. Here's a screenshot: There is so much work left to do on this project, but this release is a start. ... http://www.joeberkovitz.com/blog/2008/04/12/flex-air-code-coverage-announce/ [Since this was posted, an initial version of the coverage tool has been put up on Google Code which can be accessed here.] I've been pining for an AS3 code coverage tool for so long, I feel sick. I hate not being able to know how much of my code ... http://www.joeberkovitz.com/blog/2008/03/29/working-as3-code-coverage/ I'm pleased to be able to release a new open source tool to the Flex development community today, that comes out our work at Allurent. The tool is called ItDepends and is located on Google Code. It analyzes the dependencies between classes in a Flex application, using a ... http://www.joeberkovitz.com/blog/2008/03/26/itdepends-code-dependency-analysis-for-flexair-applications/ It's official: at long last, Boston now has its own Flex Users' Group! The first meeting will be on Tuesday April 8 at 7pm at Adobe Systems' office in Newton, MA. Peter Farland of the Flex development team will be our first speaker, talking about the new Flex ... http://www.joeberkovitz.com/blog/2008/03/21/boston-flex-users-group/ Thanks to everyone who just attended my presentation at 360 Flex in Atlanta this morning, "Advanced Case Study: Building the Allurent Display Architecture". For anyone who's interested (including attendees of my talk of course), you can download it at: http://www.joeberkovitz.com/presentations/AllurentDisplayCaseStudy.pdf http://www.joeberkovitz.com/blog/2008/02/26/360flex-presentation-posted/ After a far-too-short breather from the last snow-encrusted landing at Logan Airport, I will be flying to Atlanta on Monday to speak at the 360Flex conference Tuesday morning. I really like this conference because it's small, 100% focused on Flex development and has an extra-congenial, hang-friendly atmosphere. Many of my ... http://www.joeberkovitz.com/blog/2008/02/23/heading-to-atlanta-to-speak-at-360flex/ I just returned from a week-long mountain bike trip in Las Barrancas Del Cobre (Copper Canyon), a canyon system in southwestern Chihuahua state of truly remarkable scope and scenery: The trip was organized by Western Spirit, a bike expedition company about which I have only great things to say. http://www.joeberkovitz.com/blog/2008/02/15/mountain-biking-in-mexicos-copper-canyon/ A few folks have pointed out that it's difficult to track down all the resources about my MVCS approach to building Flex applications. They were right, and in response I've consolidated everything into a single page accessible at this URL: http://www.joeberkovitz.com/mvcs. I've also included a few addenda to MVCS reflecting more ... http://www.joeberkovitz.com/blog/2008/02/14/a-single-link-for-mvcs-resources/