After years of MVC in AS2 (weee 3 letter acronyms) you find yourself wondering how applicable it is to flex. Well yeah it is but there are a whole lot of other patterns that we can generally make logical use of now in our flex apps.

I just finished reading "Advanced Actionscript 3 with design patterns" 

And I would seriously advise it to anyone stepping up from flash/AS2 into flex. Some of the patterns described are things that some people have been doing for years, but Im starting to see alot of oportunities for being a naughty monkey and breaking encapsulation in a flex form, and this book might just be a refresher and a reminder to you, or a good step in a new direction.

Either way I would put my 1NZc behind it in saying it wont hurt and probably make your life a bit easyier next time the client asks if he could just slip xyz functionality into his feature creepy specification . 

It oulines possible ways of using patterns to solve new problems that are becoming more and more common in Flex. Implementing standard Undo Redo features into flex applications in a smart managed (and encapsulated) way. Handeling more interfaces than strictly typed objects (which is an easy pitfall in AS3 and AS2)…making code alot more flexible and reusable. Object decoration …blahh blahhh blah….  Well done to Joey Lott and Danny Patterson for getting me to remember and think about other paterns than just MVC .