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Mar
25

Best Adobe Flex Resources and Tutorial Sites

Considering that this website is based around creating easy to follow and useful tutorials, I decided to share the places I go for Flex tutorials and information. Now of course the number one place I would go to find Flex tutorials would be this site, but you already knew that.

My first list here is some of the great places I go to find Flex tutorials. If you can’t find a particular item at one of these sites it’s going to be hard to find it anywhere on the web. These are in no particular order but I was very picky on what I put in this category. I apologize in advance to anyone who feels I have missed a big site or blog.

Flex Examples

Flex Examples

http://blog.flexexamples.com/

Peter deHaan currently works for Adobe on the Flex SDK QA team. He writes so many small tutorials that it’s hard to even keep up with this man on any level. I always go to this site if I am in need of a small specific item.


Dzone

Dzone

http://www.dzone.com/links/index.html

Dzone is a great community based site for sharing developer links. The site is setup in a similar fashion as popular sites such as Digg or Reddit. The great thing is that this site has as many tutorials linked on it as anywhere else on the web.


Flex Developer Center

Adobe Flex Developer Center and Cookbook

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/

The Adobe Developer Center is great resource for complete tutorials and articles on how to get started with Flex or any of the other Adobe products. The other Adobe resource is the Cookbook which is built off of community code snippets that solve small programming tasks.


Doug McCune's Blog

Doug McCune

http://dougmccune.com/blog/

Doug is a pretty big name in the Flex community (he gives presentations all over the country at Flex events), most of the items you are going to find on his site are examples of cool applications built using Flex. These examples usually include the source code. I would not strictly call them tutorials, but all the source and examples make it a great place to learn Flexing techniques.


Google

Google

http://www.google.com

Sounds cliche but Google is the best single source for finding Flex tutorials and information. Simply search for anything your looking for (like “flex tutorials”), Google is also the best way find anything in the Flex documentation. Usually I will search for something like “flex 3 combobox” or similar.

The above list is strictly where I go to find and research Flex tutorials. I felt that it would really be a disservice to fail to mention some of the the other great Flex resources out there. The people and places below are some of the best Flex assets out on the web; be sure to take advantage of these.

Franto Flex and Flash Site

Franto.com Flash Blog

http://www.franto.com/blog2/

This blog is written by Frantisek Kormanak (Franto) and has great deal of posts on how to program in Flex and in Flash. I would say that most of his posts are informational and include great examples.


Flex.org

Flex.org

http://flex.org/

Flex.org is the main community site for Flex developers, which includes a showcase and resources for everything from PHP to .Net.




Ryan Stewart's Blog

Ryan Stewart

http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/

Ryan Stewart is a Platform Evangelist for Adobe who is also a prolific blogger. He writes about anything involving RIAs and web technologies that catch his fancy. You can also check out his ZDNet blog here.




Alex Harui's Flex Blog

Alex Harui

http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/

Alex writes short posts that are usually nice Flex examples solving common and uncommon problems people run across in Flex. He works with the Adobe Flex core team in San Francisco.


Eric Feminella's Blog

Eric Feminella

http://www.ericfeminella.com/blog/

This gentleman writes very interesting pieces on Flex, AS3, and programming architecture. He has given a lot of code to the community and is always trying to architect a new solutions for common issues.


There were also some close runner ups, most of the below people and sites post good information, but just may not post as often or sometimes they are off topic - not that off topic posts are bad.

All things considered I think I have put together a good set of resources for someone who is looking for a myriad of Flex information. If we have missed any site out there let us know in the comments, the more the merrier.



Posted in Tech News, Flex, All Tutorials by The Fattest |

20 Responses

  1. Shanon McQuay Says:

    Very handy compilation, I have recently made the switch to Flex but find it difficult at times to find good resources outside of Adobe. Thanks!

  2. Gianfranco Says:

    Flex pedia a italian Flex blog

  3. Abraham Estrada Says:

    Can you recommend me a good book for newbies? I don’t even know Flash but I’m a PHP and JS developer.

  4. The Fattest Says:

    Abraham, I personally like the book Programming Flex by Chafic Kazoun, I know that it is for Flex 2.0 but pretty much all the ideas can be used for Flex 3.0.

  5. Alex Says:

    Don’t forget the Lynda.com tutorials for Flex. They’ll provide an excellent introduction to Flex. I would highly recommend the video tutorial set to anyone new to Flex. Any intermediate to advanced users will probably know everything that is covered in them though.

    Good list otherwise.

  6. chrisryan Says:

    I can also recommenced..
    The Flexbox and Scale Nine

  7. flex Says:

    For French people, I recommend them http://www.flex-info.fr

  8. flex developers Says:

    Hey,

    just came across this blog in Google .

    Adobe and their technologies do their best to ease our online life…

    keep it going!

  9. theFlexGuy Says:

    Great list of resources! As a note, Alex Harui is in San Francisco where the core Flex team is, not India.

  10. The Fattest Says:

    FlexGuy, thanks for the heads up. I have updated the description in the article.

  11. FlexBook Says:

    O’Reilly’s Learning Flex 3 will provide a good beginner’s tutorial: http://tinyurl.com/4vfhtk

  12. amar shukla Says:

    Indian Engineeres are the best in the world.
    :)

  13. The Fattest Says:

    I am not one to say where the best engineers come from but I take a little offense to that statement amar, since I graduated from Rose-Hulman :P

  14. The Reddest Says:

    You’re close amar, but I think you forgot the last ‘a’. Indiana engineers are the best in the world. And I’m not just saying that because I graduated from an Indiana school or am currently working in Indiana - it’s just a fact.

  15. Omid Says:

    Very Good List :)

  16. Maikel Sibbald Says:

    Great!!! Please also take a look at http://labs.flexcoders.nl

  17. Tk Oh Says:

    very good article!! Thanks!!

  18. Hyder Alamgir Says:

    I guess google can be thrown into any list these days :D

    I’d vote up on Ted Patrick’s blog. I’ve found his articles to be very insightful.

    And just a note, Ted’s link points to his march 08 archives. Please correct.

    And thanks for the list once again!

  19. The Fattest Says:

    @Hyder
    Thanks for heads up on the link. I have fixed it.

  20. ozzy Says:

    very nice contribution by everyone of you. this is realy a useful website. i am a biginner in flex and an actionscript developer.

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