Flex Resources

AdobeTM Flex Resources : AdobeTM Flex Resources Prayank Swaroop Evangelist (Asia Pacific),Adobe http://www.prayank.net http://www.adobe.com/products/flex


What is AdobeTM Flex? : What is AdobeTM Flex? http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/


Introducing the Flex 2 Product Line : Visual Layout Flex Builder 2 Code Hinting Debugging Skinning and Styling Flex SDK 2 (FREE) Command-line Compiler & Debugger Flex Data Services 2 Message Service Data Management Service RPC Services MXML and ActionScript 3.0 Flex Framework and Class Library Flex Charting Extensible Charting Components Introducing the Flex 2 Product Line


Introducing the Flex 2 Product Line : Visual Layout Flex Builder 2 Code Hinting Debugging Skinning and Styling Flex SDK 2 (FREE) Command-line Compiler & Debugger Flex Data Services 2 Message Service Data Management Service RPC Services MXML and ActionScript 3.0 Flex Framework and Class Library Flex Charting Extensible Charting Components Introducing the Flex 2 Product Line Open Source


How Flex works… : MXML and ActionScript How Flex works… Flex Class Library


How Flex works… : XML/HTTP REST SOAP Web Services How Flex works… Browser J2EE Application Server Flex Data Services 2 Flash Player Web Server Existing Applications and Infrastructure Flex Builder IDE Flex SDK MXML ActionScript Flex Class Library Compile Data Data


Watch & learn : Watch & learn (Most of these apps have source code available)


Mailing groups : Mailing groups The mother of all Flex mailing groups flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 6700+ Flex developers about 100 messages everyday


Flex in India : Flex in India flex_india@googlegroups.com Mostly newbies Most discussions on Flex (+ some about flex events in India) I strongly encourage Indian Flex developers to join it Flex User Groups in Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune started.


Flex Component Explorer : Flex Component Explorer http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/explorer/explorer.html


Charting Sampler : Charting Sampler http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/ChartSampler/app.html


Flex Styles Explorer : Flex Styles Explorer Adobe Consulting


Flex Styles Creator : Flex Styles Creator Derek Wischusen: Flexonrails.net


Flex Filter Explorer : Flex Filter Explorer Joe Johnston: Merhl.com


Flex Primitive Explorer : Flex Primitive Explorer Jason Hawryluk: Flexibleexperiments.wordpress.com


Flex Transitions and Effects Explorer : Flex Transitions and Effects Explorer David Keutgens: blog.keutgens.de


labs.adobe.com : labs.adobe.com Flex 2 tag library for JSP http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_2_Tag_Library_for_JSP - a set of JSP tags that you can use to embed Flex applications to a JSP page Flex Module for Apache and IIS http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Module_for_Apache_and_IIS - similar to working with server-side scripting languages such as PHP or JSP Flex Stress Testing Framework http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Stress_Testing_Framework - helps Flex developers using FDS load test their Flex 2 applications Flex Ant Tasks http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Ant_Tasks - build your Flex projects using ANT Flex Scheduling Framework http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Scheduling_Framework - allows you to create any number of Scheduling Components.


Flash Player 9 penetration : Flash Player 9 penetration http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html Emmy Huang – Product manager for Adobe Flash Player http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/ Every quarter Millward Brown study is carried out Mature markets include US,Canada,UK,Germany,France,Japan. The Emerging markets are surveyed every other wave. They include China, South Korea, Russia, India and Taiwan.


Some other links : Some other links http://www.flex.org http://video.onflex.org http://www.riaforge.org/ http://www.osflash.org


Actionscript 3 libraries : Actionscript 3 libraries http://actionscript3libraries.riaforge.org/ corelib - MD5 hashing, JSON serialization, advanced string and date parsing ++ FlexUnit - unit testing framework for Flex and AS3, similar to JUnit Syndication library - parse Atom and all RSS versions License : BSD


As3 crypto : As3 crypto http://as3crypto.riaforge.org/ Encryption library for Flash Player 9 AES, BlowFish, DES, Triple DES, XTea - Symmetric ciphers CTR, CBC, CFB, OFB, CFB-8, ECB - Confidentiality modes for symmetric ciphers PKCS5 - Padding for symmetric ciphers RSA - public key encryption method SHA-256, SHA-224, SHA-1, MD5 - Hashing Functions HMAC - Keyed hashing function Random - PRNG class ARC4 - PRNG/Fast Encryption method Hex, Base64 - Static methods to convert binary data to and from text formats License: BSD


Flexlib – freely available high quality custom components : Flexlib – freely available high quality custom components http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/ http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/wiki/ComponentList Fire Tree Grid SuperTabNavigator And many more …


Slide23 : http://flexbox.mrinalwadhwa.com/ FlexBox – a repository of Flexcomponents in the wild


Searchcoders – an easier way to find answers to your Flex Qs. : Searchcoders – an easier way to find answers to your Flex Qs. http://www.searchcoders.com/flex


ApolloHunter – a repository for Apollo apps in the wild : ApolloHunter – a repository for Apollo apps in the wild http://www.apollohunter.com/


Some cool Flex apps : Some cool Flex apps


FlexBook : FlexBook http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/flexbook/


Yahoo Web Messenger : Yahoo Web Messenger http://webmessenger.yahoo.com/


Yahoo Maps : Yahoo Maps http://maps.yahoo.com


Yourminis : Yourminis http://www.yourminis.com/minis


Labs.digg.com : Labs.digg.com


Amazon Rank Widget http://amazonrank.riaforge.org/ : Amazon Rank Widget http://amazonrank.riaforge.org/ http://www.kylehayes.info/blog/index.cfm/Amazon-Rank License: Apache


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