e-Seminar Now Online

My e-Seminar presentation "Programmatic Visualizations in AIR" from last week is now online via Adobe at:

• http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=register_no_session&id=1137886&loc=en_us

You can also download all source code here. (All downloadable code is Flex-based. All of the e-Seminar's examples were ported to AIR, but the drawing API implementation is the same.)

Useful links for getting started with Flex 2

I get asked all the time for any useful links for getting started with Flex 2. I have a ton of resources, but for some unknown reason, I have never put this up on the blog yet. These are great links for getting started with Flex 2 development. I'm sure I'll be updating these for Flex 3 sooner or later, but here goes...

• Flex 2 Language Reference
  http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/index.html
  This link goes to the reference docs for the entire Flex 2 framework. It is extremely helpful for learning the framework and the properties and methods for objects within the framework.
  
  
• Flex 2 Style Explorer
  http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex2StyleExplorer.html
  This link provides a Flex application that will allow you to quickly and easily create style sheet definitions, and see the changes in real time, on real flex components. This is very helpful for quickly making something look good, if you don't have a user experience designer handy.
  
  
• Flex 2 Component Explorer
  http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/explorer/explorer.html
  This link provides a Flex application that will allow you to browse different kinds of Flex components. This helps you become familiar with the different components of the framework.
  
  
• QuietlyScheming Chart Explorer
  http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/ChartSampler/app.html
  This has got to be the best example for Flex charting on the internet. You can see lots of different chart customizations, play with different data effects, and it has complete source code to achieve all of these capabilities. This one is HIGHLY recommended.
  
  
• FlexLib
  http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/
  The FlexLib project is a community effort to create open source user interface components for Adobe Flex 2. There's a lot in there. you can see the full component list here: http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/wiki/ComponentList
  
  
• ActionScript 3 Libraries
  http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ActionScript_3:resources:apis:libraries
  The Adobe Developer Relations team released a set of free and open ActionScript 3.0 APIs to help developers get started building Flex 2.0 applications.