DLG Software


Rich Internet Applications,

  Flex, and maybe a little SAS


Some useful Flex sites:

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

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


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...