Links to other Important blogs

 A collection of links on the Adobe Flex SDK team, Flash Builder team, Flash Catalyst team, evangelism team, and other resources.

Blogroll

• Adobe Flex Doc Team blog
• Adobe Flex Team blog
• Alex Harui — Alex’s Flex Closet
• Balaji Sridhar — A Flex Enthusiast!
• Chet Haase — Codedependent
• Corey Lucier — Just Suppose
• Daniel Koestler
• David Zuckerman — Marking Occurrences
• Deepa Subramaniam — iamdeepa on flex
• Ely Greenfield — Quietly Scheming
• Evtim Georgiev — Easy Flex
• Gaurav Jain — Gaurav’s Blog
• Gordon Smith — Flexophile
• Hans Muller — Hans Muller’s Flex Blog
• Harish Sivaramakrishnan — FlexGeek
• Harpreet Neelu — Exploring Flex
• Jacob Goldstein — flexreport
• Joan Lafferty — Flex Butterflies and Bugs
• Kishan M V — Flex Guard
• Mac Martine
• Mark Anders’ Blog
• Matt Chotin
• Matt Finitz
• Mayank — The GLog (Geek bLOG)
• Mike Morearty — mikemo
• Narciso (nj) Jaramillo — much ado about something
• Pete Farland
• Peter Ent
• Radhakrishna — Radhakrishna's Blog
• Raghu Rao — FLEXing My Muscle
• Rob Adams — User Eccentric
• Rob Vollmar — flex spaghetti
• Ryan Frishberg — Frish’s Blog
• Sangavi — Flex Thoughts
• Scott Evans — getting and setting
• Shanaz Vakil — Flex Automation
• Sreenivas Ramaswamy — Pearls of Flex
• Steven Shongrunden — Flexponential
• Sudhir Manjunath — My Take On Tech
• Sujit Reddy G – The Evangelist
• Ted Patrick — Ted On Flex
• Tim Buntel — Tim Buntel's Web Log

Documentation/Resources

• Adobe Flex 3 Developer Documentation
• Adobe Flex 3 Language Reference
• Adobe Flex 3 Style Explorer
• Adobe Flex 4 Developer Documentation
• Adobe Flex 4 Language Reference
• Adobe Flex Cookbook
• Adobe Flex Doc Team blog
• Adobe Labs — Adobe Flex Product Center
• Download the Flash Builder 4 beta
• Flash Player Bug Base
• Flex Bug Base

Top Ten Flex Tools and Resources

Top Ten Flex Tools and Resources

When developing Flex and/or AIR applications there are a handful of tools that really make the difference between a good project and a great project. They are all very valuable and provide stability and clarity for the RIA development process; or at least they have for me. From Unit Testing to SVN utilities to frameworks and libraries I’ve found the following ten items to be very useful and helpful. I’d even go so far as to say these are critical for quality Flex RIA development; but as Les says: “It’s just a matter of opinion.” 

Cairngorm
Cairngorm is the lightweight micro-architecture for Rich Internet Applications built in Flex or AIR. A collaboration of recognized design patterns, Cairngorm exemplifies and encourages best-practices for RIA development advocated by Adobe Consulting, encourages best-practice leverage of the underlying Flex framework, while making it easier for medium to large teams of software engineers deliver medium to large scale, mission-critical Rich Internet Applications.
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/cairngorm/Cairngorm
Download: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/opensource/cairngorm/cairngorm2_2_1-bin.zip

Flex Unit
FlexUnit is a unit testing framework for Flex and ActionScript 3.0 applications and libraries. It mimics the functionality of JUnit, a Java unit testing framework, and comes with a graphical test runner.
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexunit/FlexUnit
Download: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/opensource/flexunit/flexunit0_9.zip

Subclipse
Subclipse is an Eclipse Team Provider plug-in providing support for Subversion within the Eclipse IDE. The software is released under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.0 open source license.
http://subclipse.tigris.org/
Eclipse update site URL: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x

Eclipse
Eclipse is a multi-language software development platform comprising an IDE and a plug-in system to extend it. It is written primarily in Java and is used to develop applications in this language and, by means of the various plug-ins, in other languages as well - C, C++, COBOL, Python, Perl, PHP and more.
http://www.eclipse.org
Download: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

ASDoc
ASDoc is a command-line tool that you can use to create API language reference documentation as HTML pages from the classes in your Adobe® Flex® application. The Adobe Flex team uses the ASDoc tool to generate the Adobe Flex Language Reference.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=asdoc_1.html

Flex Ant Tasks
The Adobe® Flex® Ant tasks provide a convenient way to build your Flex projects using an industry-standard build management tool. If you are already using Ant projects to build Flex applications, you can use the Flex Ant tasks to replace your exec or java commands that invoke the mxmlc and compc compilers. If you are not yet using Ant to build your Flex applications, you can take advantage of these custom tasks to quickly and easily set up complex build processes for your Flex applications.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=anttasks_1.html
Installation: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=anttasks_2.html#224215

Degrafa
Degrafa is a declarative graphics framework open source licensed under MIT.
http://www.degrafa.org
Download: http://www.degrafa.org/code/

as3corelib
The corelib project is an ActionScript 3 Library that contains a number of classes and utilities for working with ActionScript 3. These include classes for MD5 and SHA 1 hashing, Image encoders, and JSON serialization as well as general String, Number and Date APIs.
http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/
Download: http://as3corelib.googlecode.com/files/as3corelib-.92.1.zip

Flex SDK coding conventions and best practices
Coding standards for writing open-source Flex framework components in ActionScript 3. Adhering to these standards makes the source code look consistent, well-organized, and professional.
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Coding+Conventions

Flex Language Reference
The Flex 3.3 Language Reference provides syntax and usage information for every element in the ActionScript™ language. It documents all elements in Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe® AIR™ that are officially supported by Adobe.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/