These individuals have all inspired and/or helped me at one point in time. I’d like to take a moment to point them out and say thanks. I’ve personally either worked with, met or digitally communicated with all of these peeps. They have all helped me greatly and their insight is fantastic. You should check out [...]

The world of Flex development is pretty big and it’s expanding all the time. There are many types of applications that can be built with Flex from dashboards to widgets, media playback utilities to Enterprise RIAs and don’t forget interactive kiosks and Internet aware desktop applications. One of the most common questions that I get [...]

The last year has been an incredibly exciting one to say the least. A lot has happened for Adobe, for Flex, for the Flash community, for the world at large and for me personally. Looking back on this year I wanted a visual guide to show at a glance just exactly what I have been [...]

Here are five great Flex 3.0 and AIR books that are worth checking out in the next several months. Programming Flex 2 is an outstanding book and the updated Programming Flex 3 is sure to please. Creating Visual Experiences with Flex 3.0 by Juan Sanchez and Andy McIntosh is a must read and these AIR [...]

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 [...]