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Clement Wong

My name is Clement Wong. I am the owner of this blog “Stop Coding – The Unofficial Flex Compiler Blog”. As the name of the blog suggests, I know something about the Flex compiler. In fact, before I left Adobe in late 2007, I was the compiler engineering lead on the Flex SDK team.

I started working on the Flex project in 2002. In the past 7 years, I worked on most of the major pieces in the compiler – from the implementation of the SWF encoding/decoding library to the design of the current compiler infrastructure and the compiler API. Since I no longer work for Adobe and Flex is now open source, I hope to use this blog to pass on my knowledge of the Flex compiler to those who are interested in improving it.

Before Flex, I worked on the ColdFusion MX project. Anyone remember <CF_Anywhere>? That’s right! It was the first Java/J2EE-based ColdFusion engine I first built in 1998 for Live Software and it became the codebase for ColdFusion MX. Quite frankly, I am glad that it is still alive and well…

Written by Clement Wong

April 14, 2008 at 1:33 am

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  1. Good to see you bloging.. Looking forward to read your posts..

    Gaurav

    April 20, 2008 at 6:38 pm

  2. This is cool. You rock Clement! 😛

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    April 23, 2008 at 3:01 am

  3. Hi Clement.

    I ported to AS3 one of the classes you written as part of the Flex compiler, but I didn’t know whom / where to ask the permission for doing that…
    So, this may be a bit late to ask… but, this is how it looks like:
    http://code.google.com/p/e4xu/source/browse/trunk/src/org/wvxvws/encoding/MP3Transcoder.as

    I can put there a link to your blog, if you want 🙂

    Besides, I have a question… why Flex never had a transcoder for PCI sounds?

    I’ll be checking for your reply here, but if you want you can e-mail me at olegsivokon at gmail.

    Thanks, and happy coding!

    wvxvw

    August 10, 2009 at 2:36 am

    • The compiler code is under MPL. You just have to follow the MPL rules. I think you’re just fine.

      Clement Wong

      September 25, 2009 at 4:01 pm

  4. Hi Clement, I stumbled across your blog because I saw your name plastered in all of the Flex source code. I’d like to attempt to integrate a language called clojure into the Flex compiler. Do you think this would be possible?

    Lance Carlson

    September 1, 2009 at 3:56 am

    • Hi Lance,

      You have to figure out how to compile clojure into actionscript bytecodes, not java bytecodes. Integrating with the Flex compiler would mean being able to use classes written in MXML and AS3. I would not say it’s impossible, but it’s not a walk in the park. Can you provide me more info about clojure?

      Clement Wong

      September 25, 2009 at 4:06 pm

  5. Hi Clement,
    I just had a look at your articles on HFCD, looks very promising!
    I own a flex-related blog (http://www.flex-tutorial.fr), entirely in French and i’ld like to know if i could translate some of your posts in french to turn them into tutorials (giving you full credits and backlink of course) cause you’ve basically done a great job explaining everything.
    I’m currently writing about the whole BlazeDS/Flex/Java stuff but after that, i’ll give HFCD a good look.
    Tell me what you think about it, my email is at the bottom of my blog.

    Thanks!
    Fabien
    http://www.flex-tutorial.fr

    Adobe Flex Tutorial

    November 14, 2009 at 9:48 am

    • Go for it, Fabien! Thanks!

      I wonder why I don’t post in Chinese… Hm…

      Clement Wong

      November 16, 2009 at 9:04 am

  6. Clement:

    I am working on a few projects that leverage Marvin Froeder’s Flex Mojos Maven plugin.

    I would be willing to host your HFCD on my Nexus repository (public facing) if you would be willing to help me integrate it with Marvin’s plugin. He told me that it would be relatively simple to integrate if I were to install the artifacts into my repository.

    Do you have time to support such an effort – if so I think integrating with a whole new clientele may be possible.

    Please reach out to me if you have time to help support such an effort.

    Cheers,
    Adam

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    January 27, 2010 at 10:06 am

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