Flash & Flex Developer Resources

Contents

  1. Getting Started With Flash - A Newbie Guide
  2. The Flash Player
  3. Flash Documentation
  4. Flash Help
  5. News & Magazines
  6. Developer Forums
  7. Adobe links
  8. Blog Aggregators
  9. Blog Roll
  10. Tools
  11. Resources, Source Code & Tutorials
  12. Flash Remoting
  13. Internet programming
  14. User Groups
  15. Conferences
  16. General Help
  17. Search
  18. Code Search
  19. Academic Search
  20. Other links



  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. News & Magazines

    Flash Magazine
    Layers - The How-To Magazine for Everything Adobe
    ColdFusion Developer's Journal

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Internet programming

    HTTP Made Really Easy - A Practical Guide to Writing Clients and Servers
    Narrative JavaScript
    Engineering Rich Internet Applications

  14. 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

  15. 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)

  16. 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

  17. Search

    Google
    Windows Live
    AllTheWeb
    Alta Vista
    Northern Light
    Ask
    WiseNut
    Adobe Search PDF Online

  18. Code Search

    O'Reilly Code Search
    QuickRef.org
    Fast API Search
    Koders
    Krugle
    All The Code
    Google Code Search

  19. Academic Search

    Windows Live Academic
    CiteSeer - Science Library
    Cogprints - Science Library
    Google Scholar

  20. 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


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