Autumn is here again and it’s time to review some of the happenings from the summer. Here are 43 hand selected Flex and ActionScript 3.0 libraries, APIs, tips, and tricks.  There have been several new APIs launched, Cairngorm was open sourced, a Flex 3 update was released and Grant Skinner created a new tweening engine. [...]

Here is a very simple example that displays some of the components that are located in the new flex.components package.  The SWF is interesting because it is visually a little different than the classic Flex theme. No CSS has been altered in this example. Flash Player 10 is required to view the SWF.  The following [...]

Thanks to the Adobe Developer Connection for putting together this awesome program! Authors that contributed work to the ADC from June through August in 2008 were each given an opportunity to choose from 5 charities to donate $100 to. The ADC Write and Give Program generated $6200 USD in Q3 of 08!! That’s fantastic! I [...]

Just a quick post regarding Flash Forward 2008. There is a killer line up this year including: David Carson, Erik Natzke, Grant Skinner, Keith Peters, Lee Brimelow, Paul Ortchanian, Tinic Uro, Luke Bayes, Stacey Mulcahy and Branden Hall to name a few. David Carson should certainly have some interesting insight for the Flash community. [...]

Here is a great book from Manning about AIR development that you might want to check out. Topics include: windowing, menus, file system, drag-and-drop, local databases, SQLite, HTML in AIR, network connectivity and also updating/distributing apps. Flex and Flash based AIR development techniques are covered. “Adobe AIR in Action introduces AIR to developers familiar with [...]

Flex 4 is certain to mold the future of RIA development. Building on the existing Halo theme the Flex Team has started to further refine the component model and architecture for Flex. Flex 4 has a strong focus on design. One primary goal is to allow designers and developers to collaborate in innovative and unseen [...]