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Flex Books

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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

Episode 4: Jesse Freeman

By Garth Braithwaite
January 22, 2010

Jesse Freeman (theFlashBum) joins us to talk about F*CSS, Flex 4 performance, Flash for iPhone, ActionScript Frameworks, and upcoming conferences. Leif Wells, Zach Stepek, and Stacey Mulcahey joined us as the panel of experts. Listen to this week's podcast...

Flex 101: Flexing Mouse Cursors

By Andrew Trice
January 21, 2010

You probably already knew that you have the ability to customize mouse cursors in Flex. Did you also know that you can make them animated and interactive, completely with ActionScript? In this post, we will have some fun exploring techniques and playing around with mouse cursors.

IntelliJ Idea 9 For Flash Dev Overview

By Jesse Freeman
January 20, 2010

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over - Using IntelliJ Idea 9 For Flash...

Getting Free with GraniteDS

By William Draï
January 19, 2010

Following the two articles Getting Real with LCDS 3 by Justin Shacklette, this article demonstrates the GraniteDS open-source alternative and compares the solutions from the developer point of view.

Flex 101: Creating a Performance Comparison Chart

By Andrew Trice
January 15, 2010

Yet again, I've been inspired by others' creations on the web. In this post, we will walk through the steps to create a custom stock comparison chart similar to the ones used in Google Finance, in Flex using a mx:DataGrid.

REST and Flex

By Luca Mezzalira
January 13, 2010

In this tutorial we start to work with REST and Flex, are you asking what is and why use REST? So here we are, REST is acronym for REpresentational State Transfer and it helps you to provide services to comunicate...

Moving from being a Flash Developer to being a Flex Developer

By Amy Blankenship
January 10, 2010

Last November, Rich Tretola asked InsideRIA readers what topics they'd like the InsideRIA bloggers to cover. One of the answers that intrigued me was by a commenter who was looking for advice on how to make the transition from...

Flex 4 Pixel Shader Effects

By Andrew Trice
January 7, 2010

This evening, I stumbled across a great example of some new animation effects possibilities in Flex 4, based on AnimateTransitionShader and PixelBender (pixel shader) effects. I normally try not to just refer to someone else's code example, but these are too cool to not share...

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