As a Flex developer, one of the most valuable skills you can learn is custom component development. Although a lot of the training and information that's available for Flex focuses on how to use existing components, the truth is that memorizing every property of every Flex component isn't all that important. Eventually you're going to need custom graphics or functionality that no one ever anticipated, and this is where OpenFlux is going to make your day.
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