Code Collaborator solves this by a providing a highly functional web-based workflow tool that hooks into your source-code repository (Perforce, , and provides a very quick and easy way to check out changes, comment on them, gather feedback, mark defects, and approve code reviews. This is a great way to increase code quality and consistency, and provides a method for developers to keep up to date with each other, and even learn from each other. It does actually make code review fun!

An aside about defect tracking. On the current project, it sounds like code collaborator defects track at about 20% or so of bugs filed by QE. This is a substantial percentage of bugs that are caught early!

From my experience, Code Collaborator from SmartBear is a good, functional tool despite the ugly UI. I’d be interested in hearing of other useful peer code review tools that people are using.

Here is an example demonstrating a few of the newly supported style values.

.customButtonStyle {
    cornerRadii: 16, 0, 16, 0;
    borderColors: #006699, #006699;
    borderThickness: 3;
    fillColors: #FCFFF4, #006699, #FCFFF4,
    fillAlphas: 0.5, 0.5, 0.5;
    fillColorRatios: 0, 128, 255;
}

Check out the style explorer that I built for the skin, or go to Flexlib to download the source.

• Refactoring! – Ted displays renaming methods and variables. Assuming that we have rename class and add getters and setters, life will be getting a lot better.
• Enhanced List and DataGrid Components – Apparently these components are slated for some significant enhancments in capabilities. (not demo’d)
• Better Integration – A pretty cool demo of laying out Flex components in Fireworks, and then exporting the results via MXML. I had checked these out before and they are very cool.
• Yahoo AS3 API’s Yes! Some amazing AS3 API’s are finally here. Time to get off this post and starting building some Mapping applications!

Next up was some cool demos of components and apps …

• ESRI Vector Map Components – Demo of a very cool Vector map component rendered natively in Flash with alternate projections. Not as smooth as Google maps, but definitely providing more functionality typical of a GIS system.
• Data Mining App – Pretty neat data mining and reporting app bult with a Flex UI. Kind of seems like its reinventing the wheel, but I suppose there isn’t anything like that for the Flash platform.
• <flexlib /> – A very cool collection of components curated by Doug McCune.
• Yahoo AS3 API’s – Finally … Mapping API’s for AS3 and Flex 2. Yes! Time to get off this blog and starting building some mapping apps!

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