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Just started a new Community so join up and contribute if you will. Coders helping coders …. code! I know what you are thinking. Another social network? Well I promise this one is only meant to help you as a programmer grow, learn, teach and build your social contacts in your specific field. I don’t think you will find yourself wasting hours and hours just hanging out. Unless you are just that ultra geek and you can’t get enough of the programming community, but I digress.

I started a local user group here in Nashville TN (http://615flex.com). If you don’t know my name is Matthew Wallace and I am a local Flex user group manager. Over the last year I have really realized that the most learning and growing that I have done as a programmer has been from being involved in this and user groups and really trying to help the community. In my case that would be the Flex community. You would be really surprised how much you will increase your programming skills just by being around others of like mind. My hope for Coder Resource is that it in some small way will benefit whatever programing language you are interested in. I really want this to be a place that other programmers can teach, learn and talk about there skills, so join up right now and contribute and if you don’t see a group for your programming language then start your own group on Coder Resource.

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Well, I got my invite to the new site done by Kevin Rose of http://Digg.com. Looks pretty cool. Once you set up your account you get to download a desktop applications that will show you all of your posts and also allow you to post comments, links, files, and events.

Now how does this relate to my blog. Well the desktop app was compiled using Adobe’s new Desktop Environment, AIR. Basically an app that is build using the Flex Builder or Flex SDK. Now As most of you know AIR can be a program that is written in html, Ajax, Javascript, Actionscript or Flex. Wonder how they build this one. It does not look like they are using any Animation or smooth transitions in the app so I am wondering if that build it with Ajax or something like that? It would be cool to know.

Over all Looks pretty cool. If anyone out there joins up and wants to add me as a friend that would be cool. Just hit me up.

Wanted to let everyone know that I have a twitter page now. Just wanted to try it out and see how it goes. I have heard of twitter for a wile and thought that it sounds like pretty cool idea so….. we will see how it goes. Here is a the link to my page http://twitter.com/mswallace