Flash & Flex Developer Resources
Contents
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Getting Started With Flash - A Newbie Guide
The Flash Player
Flash Documentation
Flash Help
News & Magazines
Developer Forums
Adobe links
Blog Aggregators
Blog Roll
Tools
Resources, Source Code & Tutorials
Flash Remoting
Internet programming
User Groups
Conferences
General Help
Search
Code Search
Academic Search
Other links
Getting Started With Flash - A Newbie Guide
How Flex can transform the user experience on the web
Beginners Guide to Getting Started with AS3 (Without Learning Flex)
Flex.org - Very useful resource (you can download the SDK and docs here)
Flex Quick Starts - Tutorials
Adobe Flex 2 LiveDocs - Your primary reference
The Flash Player
Adobe - Get the current release version of the Flash player
Adobe - Get the current debug version of the Flash player
Adobe Labs - Get the latest beta version of the Flash player
Adobe - Flash player settings manager
Flash Documentation
Adobe Flex 2 Documentation (downloadable)
Adobe Flex 2 LiveDocs
Installing Flex 2
Getting Started with Flex 2
Flex 2 Language Reference
Flex 2 Developers Guide
Creating and Extending Flex 2 Components
Building and Deploying Flex 2 Applications
Programming ActionScript 3
Adobe Flash 8 Documentation
Flash Help
Flex.org - The directory for Adobe Flex
Flex 2 Component Explorer
Flex 2 Style Explorer
InformIT - Flash Reference Guide
Flash Wiki
Flash Game Programming Wiki
Helen Triolo - flash-creations
flex.org search
Flexcorders search
News & Magazines
Flash Magazine
Layers - The How-To Magazine for Everything Adobe
ColdFusion Developer's Journal
Developer Forums
Adobe - Flex Support Forums
Adobe - Flash Support Forums
Adobe - All Support Forums
Adobe - ActionScript 3.0 Preview Developers Forum
ActionScript.com
Flash Kit Community Forums
FlashMxFiles
Sephiroth - Flash & PHP forums
flashgroup.net - Flash User Group
CFLEX: Community Flex
kirupaForum
LA Flash Forum
flashgroup.net
Adobe Links
Adobe Labs
Flex Product Page
Flex Developer Center
Flex Support Center
Flex Forums
Flash Developer Center
Flex Cookbook
Flex Wiki
Flex Bug Reporting
Check your Flash version information
Blog Aggregators
Macromedia News Aggregator - Community News
Adobe - Flex Team
Macromedia News Aggregator - MXNA 2.0 Feeds
Adobe Consulting blog
Adobe Blogs
fullasgoog - Rich Internet Application Goodness
Flex Blog Reader
ITtoolbox Blogs - Software Engineering: From Flash to .NET & Beyond
Blog Roll
Aaron Smith - smithaaronlee
Abdul Qabiz - India
Adam Schroeder - Learning Flex 2.0
Alan Shaw - nodename
Alex Uhlmann
Alistair McLeod
Anatole Tartakovsky, Victor Rasputnis & Yakov Fain - FlexBlog @ FarataSystems.com
André Michelle - experience in flash game development
Andrew Fitzgerald - visualcondition blog
Andrew Spaulding - Flex Daddy
Andrew Trice - Flex, Flash & Fusion
Andrew Trice - Real-World Rich Internet Applications
Andy Rayne
Anthony Rumsey - Form Nation
Aral Balkan - Famous Last Words
Arrix Zhou
Artur Kordowski - newsight - Writing Code is Life
Ben Clinkinbeard - return undefined;
Ben Forta
Ben Pritchard - Pixelfumes
Ben Stucki
Bob Donderwinkel - B.log
Brajeshwar B. Oinam - Flash Platform Analyst
Brandon Hall - waxpraxis
Brandon Purcell
Brendan Dawes - Interactive design, comment and exploration
Brian Deitte - @Embed("Flex info from a compiler programmer")
Bruce Tang - betaruce
Caleb Johnston, James Widegren, Jens Karrlson, Jamie Smith, Tai U - BIG SPACESHIP LABS
Carlos Ulloa Matesanz - Noventaynueve
Chafic Kazoun & Samuel Neff - rewindlife.com - Technical discussion of Flex, Flash, and RIA development
Charles Anderson - Western Skies
Charles Hoffman - nothing happens
Chris Georgenes - Keyframer
Christian Cantrell - Apollo Application Developer
Christoph Rooms - LiveCycle / Flex / Java
Christophe Coenraets
Christophe Herreman
Claus Wahlers - w3blog - Application Development, Web Standards and more
Colin Moock
Daniel Aguilar - Protozoo
Daniel Hai - My way or the Hai way
Daniel Harfleet
Daniel Waybyick - Fluid
Daniel Williams
Danny Patterson
Darren Richardson - Actionscript, Flash, Design, Photography, Films
Darron Schall
Dave Carabetta - My Thoughts
Dave Johnson - nitobi
Dave Williamson - OldSkoolFlash
Dave Williamson - BitTubeBlog
Dave Wolf - Cynergy Systems
David Coletta - The Joy of Flex
David Stiller - Luck is the residue of good design.
David Zuckerman
Deeje Cooley - The Kiwi Project
Dion Almaer et al - Ajaxian
Duane Nickull - Technoracle (a.k.a. "Duane's World")
Ely Greenfield - Quietly Scheming
Emanuele Feronato - blog of an italian geek
Emmy Huang
Eric Dolecki
Eric Feminella - Flash Platform Development
Ethan Malasky
Felipe Andrade
Geoff Stearns - deconcept
George Coller - elephant droppings
Giacomo 'Peldi' Guilizzoni - Peldi on Software
Giorgio Natili & Matteo Fanti - actionscript.it
Glen Rhodes
Glenn Gervais - rabidGadfly
Graeme Harker - Flex.NET Blog
Grant Skinner - gBlog
Gregg Wygonik - g.wygonik's flash experiments
Guy Watson - FlashGuru, Information for Flash Developers
Harris Reynolds & Mark Piller - WebORB Blog
Ivan Todorov - On BLITZ, Flash, IA & Usability, DJing & Electronic Music
James Ward - cayambe
Jason Langdon - calm in the chaos
Jason Milkins - mentalaxis
Jeff Tapper
Jennifer Larkin - BlivitLOG
Jens Christian Brynildsen - Flashgamer
Jesse Warden - JesterXL
Jignesh Dodiya
Jim Armstrong - 2112 FX :: Singularity
Joa Ebert
Joe Johnston - merhl
John Dowdell - JD on EP
John Grden - RockOnFlash
John Wilker
Jonas Jonsson - fatbrain
Josh Buhler
Judah Frangipane
Karina Steffens - GrannySmith, neo-Archaic
Keith Peters- Bit-101 Blog
Keun Lee - Think Tank
Kevin Lynch
Kirupa Chinnathambi
Koen De Weggheleire - New Movieclip()
Kristof Neirynck - Just another WordPress weblog
Lacy Morrow - (blog.gekkid.net)
Lee Brimelow - theWPFblog
Lee Brimelow - The Flash Blog
LordAlex Leon - Flash Platform Developer
Luar Yen - Luar's Flash Playground
Luke Bayes and Ali Mills - assertTrue
Manish Jethani
Marcel Boucher - Mind The Gap
Marco Casario - hands on Adobe world
Mario Klingemann - Quasimondo
Mark Anders
Mark Horsell
Mark Walters - digitalflipbook
Mason Brown - designing ideas for database driven flash applications
Matt Chotin
Matthew Lloyd
Michael Baczynski - polygonal labs
Michael Bianco
Michael Schmalle - Teoti Graphix
Mike Britton
Mike Chambers
Mike Downey - Flash Product Manager
Mike Jones - FlashGen
Mike Jones - Flash Coder
Mike Lyda - oddhammer
Mike Melanson - Pengiun.SWF
Mike Morearty - Mostly about the debugger in Adobe Flex Builder
Mike Potter
Narciso Jaramillo (nj) - much ado about something
Nathanael de Jager - My2Bits
Neil Middleton - The Feed Squirrel
Neven Jacmenovic, Šuro Korac & Mark Raguz - bling bling nivas.hr blog
Nigel Pegg - Nigel's Blog Thingy
Niklas Richardson - Prismix Blog - Internet business solutions using Macromedia Flex and ColdFusion MX
Oscar Trelles - Interaction Architect, Flash Developer
Oz Michaeli - The Fisix Engine
Pablo Parrado - ActionScript Hero
parentNode.org
Patrick Mineault - 5 1/2 blog
Paul Barnes-Hoggett - eyefodder
Paul Spitzer - Fluid
Paul Williams
Paulo Fierro
Peter Elst
Peter Ent - Tips to give your RIA more FLEXappeal!
Peter Hall - peterjoelblog
Phil Powell - SillyDomainName - Create, not consume
Philippe Maegerman - CF_PIM
Ralf Bokelberg - helpQLODhelp
Ralph Hauwert - UnitZeroOne
Raymond Camden - Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog
Renaun Erickson - flexblog text="{ ModelLocator.myThoughts }"
Ricardo Cabello
Rich Tretola - Everything Flex
Richard Leggett - Flash and Future Tech
Richard Marsh - Creative Resonance
Rob Dixon - FlashLit. - words about flash and flex
Roger Braunstein & Mims Wright - dispatchEvent / Partly Human
Roger Gonzalez - Interesting Flex/Flash hacks that are occasionally even useful
Ryan Stewart - Digital Backcountry
Ryan Taylor - boostworthyisryantaylor, We charge by the pixel. That's Baller. That's Ultraballer.
Sam Robbins - pixelconsumption
Samuel Agesilas - Level of Industry
Scott Barnes - MossyBlog
Scott Fegette - Adobe Developer Relations
Scott Janousek - Flash, Mobile, Gadgets, and Interactivity
Sean Corfield - An Architect's View - ColdFusion, Software Design, Frameworks and more...
Sepiroth - Weblog on SEPY development
Sho Kuwamoto - flex, flash, and assorted goodness
Simon Horwith - Diary of a (ColdFusion) Madman
Slavomir Slizik - Franto
Sönke Rohde - getFlashed()
Stacey Mulcahy - BitchWhoCodes
Stefan Richter - FlashComGuru
Stephen Downs -Tink
Steve Webster - Dynamic Flash - Confessions of a serial code abuser
Steven Erat - TalkingTree.com
Steven Schelter - Schelter Studios
Steven Webster
Stimunation - Tales from the code front
Stuart Eccles - liverail.net
Sven Ramuschkat and Dirk Eismann - richinternet.blog
Tariq Ahmed - DOPEJAM::The Tariq Ahmed Experience
Ted Patrick - Ted on Flex, Adobe Flex Evangelist
Teguh Mualim - mteguh - CapCai Blog
Thea Eaton - Flash Goddess
Thibault Imbert - ByteArray.org
Tinic Uro - kaourantin.net
Thomas Pfeiffer - Sandy, Flash 3D API
Todd Anderson - bustardcelly
Todd Sharp - cf silence
Tom Jordahl - Random thoughts about ColdFusion, Web Services, Apache Axis, Tivo and other stuff
Tom Ortega II - Tom’s blog on writing, coding and living.
Tony MacDonell - Teknision
Tyler Wright - CODE: XT [solving the actionscript riddles]
Uday Shankar - Flexed
Wade (Jeremy) Lu - d.CAT, the RIA blog
Waldo Smeets - Adobe Benelux Blog
Xavi Beumala - Code4net
Zee Yang - Flex, LiveCycle, and everything in between
Tools
FlashDevelop.org
Action Script Viewer
GlobFX - NeoSwiff, C# .NET WinForms in Flash
Flashloaded - Videos, sounds & components
Genable Labs - ActionScript Obfuscator
Flasm - Free assembler/disassembler
Flare - Free ActionScript decompiler
Motion-Twin - MTASC, Free ActionScript 2.0 compiler
haXe.org - Web-oriented Universal Language
SciTE|Flash - Free Scintilla-based ActionScript editor
SE|PY - Free ActionScript editor.
SAPIEN PrimalScript
SWF TOOLS
Drumbeat Insight
FLV Player - Flash video
Northcode - SWF Studio
Zinc - Rapid Application Development for Flash
flashextension.net - Flash extensions, components and clips
Sothink
Flash Panorama Player
Asual - EnFlash, an open source Application Framework
CTi - XPanel, trace Flex/Flash applications interactively
ActiveSWF - Dynamic SWF generator
FusionReactor & FusionDebug - ColdFusion tools
Resources, Source Code & Tutorials
Sandy - Flash 3D API
JAM - Just ActionScript and MXML - Free source code samples
Michael Schmalle's Flex2 and AS3 Wiki
FLEX.ZTOR.COM - ZTORLog4f, a simple logging tool
RIAForge - Open Source projects built on Adobe technology
The Flex Component Development group
OSFlash - Open Source Flash
ActionScript.com
Yahoo! Flash Developer Center
Lee Brimelow - gotoAndLearn
ActionScript.org
Jim Bumgardner - Jim' Flash Bestiary
Flashscene.org
Anti-Gravity
FlashBeyond - Flash Components and Tutorials
Sean Anderson's list of Bit Twiddling Hacks
DevX.com - The know-how behind application development
iteration::two - Flex Unit OpenSource testing framework
Total Training - Flex 2 DVD training by James Talbot
As2lib - Open Source ActionScript 2 Library
Cairngorm Documentation Group
Tunneling Macromedia Flash Communications Through Firewalls and Proxy Servers
mozilla.org - The Tamarin Project
Adobe Labs - Flex-Ajax Bridge
Asual - SWFAddress, Deep linking for Flash
Adobe Media Gallery - Open source slideshow gallery viewer
Adobe Flex Cookbook
Adobe Tutorial - Producing Video for the Web
Vadim Melnik - Flex Internals
Flash Remoting
Adobe PHP RIA SDK
amfphp - Flash Remoting for PHP
Flourine - .NET Flash Remoting Gateway
Midnight Coders' WebORB
SabreAMF
AS3 Lightweight Remoting Framework
OpenAMF - Java Flash Remoting
Macromedia JRun 4
Macromedia Flash Remoting MX
Adobe ColdFusion MX 7
Charles - Web debugging proxy
Service Capture - Web debugging tool
Internet programming
HTTP Made Really Easy - A Practical Guide to Writing Clients and Servers
Narrative JavaScript
Engineering Rich Internet Applications
User Groups
Adobe User Groups - Find a user group
LA Flash - Los Angeles Flash Area Professionals
UT Austin Flash Users Group
Austin Adobe User Group (AAUG)
Austin ColdFusion Group
Dallas/Ft. Worth ColdFusion User Group
Brazos Valley Adobe-Macromedia Users Group (BVAMUG)
Houston Adobe User Group
Houston ColdFusion User Group
Seattle Flash User Group
flashUsersGroup - an online Flash Platform User Group
Flash Coders Brighton
Flash Coders New York
Boston Flash Platform User Group
flashgroup.net - Actionscripts {UK} User Group
Silicon Valley Flex User Group
Conferences
360Flex Conference (San Jose, California)
Flashforward Conference (San Francisco, CA)
Flashbelt Conference (Minneapolis, MN)
Flash on the Beach (Brighton, UK)
CFUNITED - The Premier ColdFusion Technical Conference (Washington DC)
General Help
Wikipedia
NIST - Algorithms & Data Structures
HTML docs
MSDN HTML reference
HTML Validation Service
DNS Stuff
MSDN
Windows Update - bug fixes
Microsoft download center
Search
Windows Live
AllTheWeb
Alta Vista
Northern Light
Ask
WiseNut
Adobe Search PDF Online
Code Search
O'Reilly Code Search
QuickRef.org
Fast API Search
Koders
Krugle
All The Code
Google Code Search
Academic Search
Windows Live Academic
CiteSeer - Science Library
Cogprints - Science Library
Google Scholar
Other links
International Registry of FlexCoders
Ryan Stewart's Unofficial Apollo FAQ
Flash Pearls - Flash Website Showcase
Flash Kit
Password Busting: SWF Protections
Lambda the Ultimate - The Programming Languages Weblog
