FlexBuilder finally pushed me over the edge today. I came in to work and it was sitting on the frozen blank screen which has become its daily ritual. Today I took action however, and I booted Flex Builder to the curve.

A while ago I had installed OxygenXML because I’d heard you could use it to work on MXML files pretty easily. It’s a simple configuration but when I had it downloaded I got caught up on some CF projects and never really got to try it out.

Today though, I redownloaded it, got a new trial license and I love it. Using the Flex .xsd file it give you code completion and you also have code coloring and the ability to break down the mxml files using typical XML tools.

If you haven’t yet, go over and grab the trial version of OxygenXML and give it a shot.

So now while the Flash developers have FAME (Flashout, ActionSript Development Tool, MTASC and Eclipse) Flex developers can have CFAOE (CFEclipse, ActionScript Development Tool, OxygenXML and Eclipse)

When Zorn comes it will be even more clever ? CFAZE.

I do realize it’s not exactly the same thing because OxygenXML costs money and isn’t open source, but hey, let’s not be picky.

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