You may have seen the “IFBIN Author/Partner” badges that a few of us Flash bloggers have on our sites. If you’re not familiar, IFBIN offers hundreds of well-documented examples for Flash and Flex. All the examples are written by industry professionals, like Ted Patrick, Jesse Warden, Keith Peters, and Darron Schall (to name only a few). Until now, IFBIN code could only be obtained through a yearly subscription. Today, IFBIN is free and open source!
Download the IFBIN client, and check things out. All the source code is released under a BSD License. That means you can use this code virtually anywhere. Take a look through the examples and you might just find some code that will help you on a project right now.
Expect more great stuff in the future too. Ted is working on a new IFBIN client program written for Apollo. I imagine it will be one of the first definitive Apollo applications that really shines. We have plans to support examples for other Adobe products too. I can’t wait to learn some new Photoshop techniques. Finally, we want everyone to be able to submit examples. We’ll strive for the highest-quality and it should be great for everyone. Happy coding!
Kewl, this is great news!! now I can have a look through some of your samples. Are they continuing to grow the service?
Cam
I think I’ve created about five or so examples for IFBIN. Some are specifically for the betas of Flex 2 (the 8.5 days), so I need to find some time to update those.
We want to open submission to anyone, so it should continue to grow. The best part of IFBIN is the quality of the code and its documentation, so we need to determine a good way to continue that tradition. Perhaps some moderation… maybe from the community like Digg? Certainly some solid guidelines will make a good starting point.