Now, I’m gathering blogs that write about Flex, Flash, Actionscript and other Flex/Flash related technologies.
Here is is what I found so far…
http://feeds.adobe.com - Adobe Feeds
http://www.riapedia.com - RIApedia
http://www.flexer.info - Flexer
http://www.flex.org/ - Flex.org
http://www.onflex.org/ - Ted on Flex
http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/ - Flex Team
http://www.jamesward.com/wordpress/ - James Ward
http://blog.everythingflex.com/ - EverythingFlex
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/ - Mike Chambers
http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/ - Ryan Stewart
http://www.forta.com/blog/ - Ben Forta
http://coenraets.org/blog/ - Christophe Coenraets
http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/ [...]

The sessions at 360|Flex Conference (18-20 august 2008 @ San Jose, CA) are available here (on Ted on Flex) and can be seen using Adobe Media Player. So…

download and install Adobe Media Player
open it and go to My Favourites
press Add RSS Feed and paste this: http://sessions.onflex.org/1733261879.xml

Now there should be 15 videos under 360|Flex Conference. [...]

On 18th of August Matt Chotin announce the availability of Flex Builder 3.0.1 Update which includes Flex SDK 3.1.
This is what it contains:

bug fixes (jira list here)
support for Flash Player 10 - just base support
support for AIR 1.1
support for Eclipse 3.4

You can update your Flex Builder 3 by selecting Search for Flex Builder Updates… [...]

Today I needed to found a way to create bitmap data object from a display object. I found a solution in Flex Cookbook (http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=showdetails&productId=2&postId=1682) and having this I improved it and made it simpler.
The code follows…

public function makeBitmap(myDO:DisplayObject):BitmapData
{
var myBD:BitmapData = new BitmapData(myDO.width, myDO.height);
myBD.draw(myDO);
[...]

Flash Player 10 (”Astro”) Debug version is out. You can find it here: http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flex/sdk/branches/3.0.x/in/player/10/.
I the a previous article I explained how you can build a Flash Player 10 application using Flex SDK and here it is: http://www.flexer.info/2008/05/21/how-to-build-flash-player-10-applications-using-flex-sdk/.
From now on we are looking for new Flash Player 10 applications…

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In the previous article I explained how to use Yahoo! Maps. Now I’ll explain how to create a custom marker and how to place it on the map. This is not an easy task because on Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) there is not enough documentation regarding Yahoo! Maps API for AS3. Take a look at [...]

This article will explain how to create a wildcard search. What I mean is the following:

dir *.*

or

dir myfile??.txt

The old DOS searching way. The first command (if you’ll run them in Command Prompt) returns all files with extension from the current folder. The second command will return any file having its name as this: [...]

This is a very helpful piece of code. Function to escape all regular expression special chars. I came to this string having this order of characters by trial and error. So now you can use it easily by copy and paste.
What is important to know that MXML and Actionscript compiler do automatically escapes backslashes (”\”) [...]

Few days ago I found out about Adobe TV website which you may already know about. This site is about Adobe’s technologies explained using videos. Photographers, designers, video professionals and developers can use this to learn about Adobe’s products and technologies. There are lots and lots of presentations and tutorials regarding Flex, AIR, LiveCycle and [...]

HTML Editor in Flex? Can we say that squarespace has managed to do that? Although isn’t a complex one it is a start. What is next? We can think that in the future Dreamweaver may become a web RIA. Or some other HTML Editors will be created using Flex and AIR.
For some developers this sounds [...]