In yesterday’s BFUG meeting, I came to know about SearchCoders.

It is a fantastic way of going through the huge flexcoders archive. flexcoders yahoo group is a vast collection of Flex knowledge with almost 7000 Flex users registered on it and more than 100 email messages per day. It is a great example of the powerful Flex ecosystem that has developed around Flex.

But, newcomers to Flex get overwhelmed in finding the answers to their questions in such a huge collection of email messages. And, since this groups has been around for more than 3 years now, so the level of expertise of the group members is actually quite advanced - thus very trivial questions sometimes are left unanswered. So searchcoders comes in very handy. It has a Flex based interface too which is very easy to use.

Mrinal Wadhwa also recommended using the Searchcoders Apollo application, which he says has a more powerful user interface and make life lot more easier. (I haven’t tried out the Apollo app myself though. You will need to install Apollo runtime on your desktop to try it out)