Flick & Flack: The Flex Talk Guys
The Component Lifecycle: Custom Component Recipe
The tough Flex questions have already been answered.. but finding those answers and understanding them is not easily done. Enter Flick & Flack. Alex Harui and Gordon Smith take an important question from the Flexcoders list and expound upon it, to your advantage. Their meandering conversation takes the subject to places, and explains it in ways, that you would never expect. In this issue, they cover the order in which Flex creates, validates and displays components, and how to use that to your best advantage.
The orginal Flexcoders question, from Amy Blankenship, can be found here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/110818.