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Flex Experts

Marco Casario has dedicated himself to innovative projects for the web using Flash and Director (as far back as versions 3 and 5). In 2005, Marco founded Comtaste, a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet Applications and the convergence between the web and the world of mobile devices--MobyMobile and…

David Tucker is a software engineer with Universal Mind where he focuses on Flex and AIR application. In addition, he is an avid blogger and writes primarily about Adobe AIR, Flash, Flex, and ColdFusion at davidtucker.net.

Fred Gerantabee is an instructor with Aquent Graphics Institute. He is an Adobe Certified Instructor for Flash, Dreamweaver, and the mobile development platform, Flash Lite.

Joshua Noble is a consultant, freelance developer and Rich Internet Application designer, based out of Brooklyn, who most recently worked at the popular RIA design/dev firm Schematic, Inc.

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Flex Answers

O'Reilly Answers: Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

• How to Find Similar Users with Python
• The key differences between ActionScript 3 (AS 2) and ActionScript 3 (AS 3)
• The difference between Adobe Flex Builder and Adobe Flash Builder
• What is the difference between Adobe Flex Builder and Adobe Flash Builder
• What are the key differences between ActionScript 3 (AS 2) and ActionScript 3 (AS 3)?
• How to Set the Selected Color of Flex LinkBar
• How to Parse Atom Feeds with Flex/ActionScript
• Strange ‘NOSERVER_FLEX_OUTPUT_FOLDER’ Error
• What new features in Flex 4 are you most excited about?
• Flex 4 Features

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Flex News & Commentary

Effects and Animation - Hello! Flex 4

By Peter Armstrong
February 8, 2010

This excerpt is from Chapter 4 (Spark containers, view states, effects, and styling) of Hello! Flex 4, by Peter Armstrong. This excerpt is published with permission. Session 18 - Effects and Animation - Hello! Flex 4 In this workshop...

Interview With Elad Elrom

By Jesse Freeman
February 1, 2010

About Elad Elrom Elad Elrom is a technical writer, technical lead, and senior Flash engineer. As a technical writer, Elad wrote books covering Flash technologies. He maintains an active blog and has spoken at several conferences regarding the Flash...

RIA Radio - Episode 6: Shaun Smith and Joel Hooks [robotlegs]

By Garth Braithwaite
January 28, 2010

Shaun Smith and Joel Hooks of robotlegs fame joined us to discuss the creation of the project, explain its strengths, and to mention the best way to get started working with it. We were also joined by Leif Wells...

Episode 4: Jesse Freeman

By Garth Braithwaite
January 22, 2010

Jesse Freeman (theFlashBum) joins us to talk about F*CSS, Flex 4 performance, Flash for iPhone, ActionScript Frameworks, and upcoming conferences. Leif Wells, Zach Stepek, and Stacey Mulcahey joined us as the panel of experts. Listen to this week's podcast...

Flex 101: Flexing Mouse Cursors

By Andrew Trice
January 21, 2010

You probably already knew that you have the ability to customize mouse cursors in Flex. Did you also know that you can make them animated and interactive, completely with ActionScript? In this post, we will have some fun exploring techniques and playing around with mouse cursors.

IntelliJ Idea 9 For Flash Dev Overview

By Jesse Freeman
January 20, 2010

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over - Using IntelliJ Idea 9 For Flash...

Getting Free with GraniteDS

By William Draï
January 19, 2010

Following the two articles Getting Real with LCDS 3 by Justin Shacklette, this article demonstrates the GraniteDS open-source alternative and compares the solutions from the developer point of view.

Flex 101: Creating a Performance Comparison Chart

By Andrew Trice
January 15, 2010

Yet again, I've been inspired by others' creations on the web. In this post, we will walk through the steps to create a custom stock comparison chart similar to the ones used in Google Finance, in Flex using a mx:DataGrid.

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