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Some useful Flex sites:

Be sure to also see the video/podcast list below, I highly recommend Adobe TV.

• One of my favorite Flex sites is Peter deHaan's Flex Examples. Clearly written, live examples to test drive, source code included. He has another blog, Confessions of a Flex QA, which provides general Flex/Flash news, an aggragation of good posts from other Flex sites/blogs, and summaries of his own Flex Examples.
• The Adobe Developer Connection site Devnet has lots of info, including many white papers.
• The Flex Doc team blog has a wealth of information and examples.
• Alex Harui's Flex Closet is another great resource.
• Peter Ent's Flex solutions archive is another favorite.
• Doug McCune's blog Always practice safe Flex is definitely meta-geeky (using a decompiler to decompile itself?!)
• Ely Greenfield's site quietlyscheming, not only has great code but he even has how-I-did-it demos.
• Check out The Flash Enabled blog which also has Flex stuff, including an interesting page Flash & Flex Free Components and Source Files
• Also useful are both Flex.org and Actionscript.org

Tour de Flex

Tour de Flex deserves a category to itself. This AIR app can be downloaded from Adobe and provides tons of interactive examples with source code, everything from demonstrations of basic component functionality to advanced data access methods (including some that employ 3rd party products like WebORB). Highly recommended, especially for newbies.

Online Tools and Component libraries

• To see Flex components in action go to The Flex Component Explorer.
• For point-and-click generation of CSS styling for your app a must-see is The Flex Style Explorer.
• Some libraries of Flex components: Flexlib, Flexbox, Flex.org components lib, also Devnet.
• Some libraries of Flex skins and templates: Fleksray and Scalenine.

Interesting RIA/Flex Podcasts and Videocasts

You can find lots of resources on iTunes and YouTube, but here are some specific goodies I want to highlight:

• Adobe TV has incredible videos, including many presentations from the Adobe Max conferences (want to understand the UIC lifecycle and creation of custom components in Flex? Check out "Creating New Components in Flex 3" by Deepa Subramaniam)
• A good place for newbie podcasts is The Flex Show blog. This also has more advanced tips, developer interviews and Flex conference presentations. Its podcasts are also available on iTunes.
• Great Flex dev podcast videos are available on iTunes through "The Adobe Developer Conection"
• Adobe provides a nice (and free) set of accelerated Flex training videos on its devnet page Flex in a Week
• Among other Flex goodies, Ted Patrick's site has numerous videos
• Flex.org has an aggregation of Flex and RIA focused podcasts on its Podcasts and Videocasts page.
• Interesting is the graphics-geek blog presention Filthy Rich [Flex] Clients
• A good RIA shootout is SYS-CON 06SEP07 panel discussion on RIAs
• Also worth a look is 'Coding the Architecture' user group's presentation Flex, Silverlight or JavaFX - Which should you choose?

There are many other Flex/RIA good resources that I just haven't had time to add, will do so shortly...