I'm now on day 4 of the official version of Flex Builder 3 and I like it a lot!

The beta versions were plenty stable to get work done. Every now and then it would spin off out of control. but that was to be expected. The release version is rock solid and feels faster too.

Installing CFEclipse was a piece of cake (Help->Software Updates->Find and Install->New Features->CFEclipse). Bam...it just works. We use subversion. so getting Subclipse going was essential too. Remember. FB3 is built on Eclipse 3.3 so use the "http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x" update site.

One minor gripe that I'll have to get over is the overwhelming number of plugins for Eclipse in general. Some of them have odd dependencies on one another that aren't trivially easy to work out when selecting them from the updates screen. With a little more time spent learning I'm sure I'll figure it out. but for now I'm going to keep it simple. The Web Tools Platform is certainly an attractive upgrade that I wouldn't mind installing sooner rather than later!

Great job. Flex Builder team! Looking forward to keeping this as my primary IDE for CF and Flex development. I promise to pay for the upgrade before the trial expires!