Wha?? Yes, you read that correctly. I am very honored to be teaming up with the crew at Universal Mind. At this point I have been accepted into the family as a contractor. I have been working with the team for two weeks now and things are going pretty well. Two cats I have to [...]

Here is a draft version for the Flex 3 Cheatsheets. A number of MXML controls are detailed on this draft. For the first few Flex 3 Cheatsheets I am thinking about following this format for the rest of the commonly used MXML controls and containers. The properties, events and styles are taken directly from [...]

2007 was an AWESOME year for Flex and AIR. 2008 should continue this trend. Here are several different technologies and other items I plan on monitoring going into 2008. Some of these are bleeding edge, others are fundamentals which we’ve been studying for years.
“I’m sure that Flex skills will be one of the hottest [...]

Here are a number of podcasts regarding software development. All of these topics are valid for Flex development. Enjoy!
Refactoring Pt. 2
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode55-refactoring_pt2.mp3
Design By Contract
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode51-designByContract.mp3
Architecture Patterns (Architecture Pt. 4)
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode41-architecture_pt4.mp3
Refactoring Pt. 1
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode46-refactoring_pt1.mp3
Dynamic Languages for Static Minds
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode49-dynamicLanguages.mp3
Architecture Pt.3
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode30-architecture_pt3.mp3
Architecture Pt. 2
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode25-architecture_pt2.mp3
Development Processes Pt.1
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode24-developmentProcesses_pt1.mp3
Architecture Pt. 1
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode23-architecture_pt1.mp3
Service Oriented Architecture Pt.1
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode27-soa_pt1.mp3

Error Handling
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode7-errorhandling.mp3
Scripting Languages
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode4-scriptingLanguages.mp3
Dependencies
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode2-dependencies.mp3
Patterns
http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode1-patterns.mp3
Design Patterns
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ais/AiS2_copy_1.mp3
Web Services
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ais/AiS5.mp3
Unit Testing
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ais/AiS8.mp3
Advanced Unit Testing Techniques
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ais/AiS9.mp3
Database Normalization
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ais/AiS12.mp3
Abstraction
http://ais.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=187077#
Engineering Processes
http://ais.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=196868#
Refactoring
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ais/AiS24.mp3
Scalable Enterprise Applications
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ais/AiS35.mp3

Announcing “kannopy - AIR Application Development and Consulting”. This exciting new company will focus on application development using the Adobe Integrated Runtime. kannopy should be officially open for business sometime in early 2008. In addition to pure AIR app dev kannopy will also offer high end experience and UI design for Flex and AIR applications. [...]

“How To Simulate Material, Light & Dimension in Flash with Just Gradients” by: Dolores Joya. This article is an artists inside perspective into the world of vector gradients applied to user interface design. Dolores has been involved with traditional art for a number of years. Here is your chance to learn some of the principals [...]

We all remember the old school gabo site. Here is an AIR application Gabo Mendoza is developing. It looks pretty cool. From the homepage:
“Wouldn’t it be great if you could take pieces of your favorite web sites and put them on your desktop? Things like that auction you’ve got your eye on, your web [...]

Following up the list of 22 ActionScript 3.0 libraries is a new list of 31 Flex APIs and resources. You will find: time saving APIs, libraries, tools and other resources related to Flex development.
Adobe Flex cookbook beta
http://www.tiny.cc/VbU44
AnimatedGIfLoader Flex Component
Allows you to load animated gif files into your Flex applications
http://dougmccune.com/blog/animatedgifloader-flex-component/
Asdia
Provides an easy way to [...]

Here is a follow up to Jamie’s “AS3: APIs” post seen over on the bigspaceship blog last month. The list contains 22 AS3 APIs that should save Flash and Flex developers a ton of time. I have personally used and can recommend the following: Papervision, as3corelib, Tweener, APE and XIFF.
Adobe APIs
corelib, mappr, flickr, [...]

Here is a very simplistic Flex Builder 3 and AIR example that adds and removes records from a table in a local SQLite database. This is not a fully completed AIR project but this code can probably be reused by anyone wanting to get started with AIR+SQLite. There are a couple of other AIR+SQLite [...]