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Flex Books

Many of our books are available as Ebook Bundles — your bookshelf on your devices! And don't forget, you can Buy 2 books, get the 3rd FREE! Use discount code: OPC10 See details.

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Flex Experts

Marco Casario has dedicated himself to innovative projects for the web using Flash and Director (as far back as versions 3 and 5). In 2005, Marco founded Comtaste, a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet Applications and the convergence between the web and the world of mobile devices--MobyMobile and…

David Tucker is a software engineer with Universal Mind where he focuses on Flex and AIR application. In addition, he is an avid blogger and writes primarily about Adobe AIR, Flash, Flex, and ColdFusion at davidtucker.net.

Fred Gerantabee is an instructor with Aquent Graphics Institute. He is an Adobe Certified Instructor for Flash, Dreamweaver, and the mobile development platform, Flash Lite.

Joshua Noble is a consultant, freelance developer and Rich Internet Application designer, based out of Brooklyn, who most recently worked at the popular RIA design/dev firm Schematic, Inc.

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Flex Answers

O'Reilly Answers: Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

• The key differences between ActionScript 3 (AS 2) and ActionScript 3 (AS 3)
• The difference between Adobe Flex Builder and Adobe Flash Builder
• What is the difference between Adobe Flex Builder and Adobe Flash Builder
• What are the key differences between ActionScript 3 (AS 2) and ActionScript 3 (AS 3)?
• How to Set the Selected Color of Flex LinkBar
• How to Parse Atom Feeds with Flex/ActionScript
• Strange ‘NOSERVER_FLEX_OUTPUT_FOLDER’ Error
• What new features in Flex 4 are you most excited about?
• Flex 4 Features
• How to Use the CCK Framework in Drupal

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Flex News & Commentary

RIA's go Hollywood: An Introduction to Integrating Video Into Your Application

By Tim Todish
December 29, 2009

In this article we're going to cover an exciting, and increasingly popular way to deliver an amazing user experience, video. Few mediums can grab one's attention quicker than video. Let's face it, people on the Internet have almost no attention span -- we've even reduced our conversations to 140 character chunks -- so the faster you can grab and engage the user the better.

Build Rich Portal Applications with the UcompOS Rich Experience Framework

By Edward Mansouri
December 28, 2009

More than 10 years ago in early 1999, I built a web-based e-learning system known as a Learning Management System. The program, entitled Educator, enables academic institutions to put their courses and degree programs online. By today's standards, the program...

Flex Fashionistas

By Mike Slinn
December 22, 2009

The software industry has been trendy for decades. Now that the days of green screens are ancient history, and Steve Jobs has contributed black iTurtlenecks to the fashion lexicon, computer fashion is visual as well as intellectual.There are many examples...

Disabling events in Flex

By Mike Slinn
December 16, 2009

Flex does not provide a way to temporarily disable event listeners and re-enable them later.  You may want to do this to prevent endless loops.  For example, when some code modifies the selectedIndex of a List, an event is fired. ...

28 Rich Data Visualization Tools

By Theresa Neil
December 10, 2009

We're currently working with a dozen different clients, all web application (re)designs. All of these clients have data rich applications and need equally rich data visualizations to help their end customers analyze data quickly and effectively. What makes my job really interesting is that these clients are in different industries and are using different technologies. So we have pulled together a set of 25 tools for creating graphs, Gantt charts, diagrammers, calendars/schedulers, gauges, mapping, pivot tables, OLAP cubes, and sparklines, in Flash, Flex, Ajax or Silverlight.

Top security threats to Flash/Flex applications and how to avoid them - Part 1

By Elad Elrom
December 9, 2009

In the series of articles I will be posting on InsideRIA, you will gain knowledge about security in regards to Flash and Flex applications. In each article I will be covering specific security vulnerabilities, showing examples of how an attacker can abuse Flash/Flex applications, and pointing out ways to help prevent these attacks. The purpose of these articles is to increase awareness so you will take security into consideration when building your applications.

Getting Real with LCDS 3, Part 2

By Justin Shacklette
December 8, 2009

In Part 1, we experienced the joy of model driven development and built a complete LCDS 3 backend using the new Modeler plugin. Amazingly, no Java was needed to create a full production-ready backend. In Part 2, we will build a complete Flex 4 frontend while exercising some of the cooler client-side LCDS 3 features along the way. And once again, I won't skimp on the details.

Flex 101: Creating a Swipe/Slide Effect With Flex

By Andrew Trice
December 8, 2009

In this example, we will walk through the creation of a swipe/slide effect inspired by the transitions that you often see in touch-capable devices when you use a finger to swipe from one screen to the next. One piece of content slides off to one side, and another piece of content seamlessly slides in from the opposite side.

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