Boston Flex Application Incubator Group
Resources
Application Architecture
Frameworks in General
Brightworks Flex Architecture Page
Jon Baker :: Simplified Cairngorm, Easy MVC for Adobe Flex
Jon Baker :: Scaling up EasyMVC as your Flex application grows (Part 1) :: Part 1 :: Part 2: Services
Cairngorm
David Tucker :: Getting Started With Cairngorm :: Part 1 :: Part 2 :: Part 3 :: Part 4 :: Part 5
Jeffry Houser :: Learning Cairngorm :: Part 1 :: Part 2 :: Part 3 :: Part 4 :: Part 5
Jesse Warden :: 10 Tips For Working With Cairngorm
Neil Webb :: Cairngorm For Beginners :: Covers version 2.2 :: Part 1 :: Part 2 :: Part 3
Steven Webster :: Why I think you shouldn’t use Cairngorm
Steven Webster :: So What's Happening Next with Cairngorm
Steven Webster :: Developing Flex RIAs with Cairngorm Microarchitecture :: Written for version .99 but most of the concepts are still applicable :: An excellent overview by one of the framework's primary authors
- Part 1 :: Introducing Cairngorm
- Part 2 :: Keeping State on the Client
- Part 3 :: Architecting the View
- Part 4 :: Feature-Driven Development
- Part 5 :: Server-Side Integration
- Part 6 :: Rapid and Consistent Development with Cairngorm and Flex
Alex Uhlmann :: Dashboard Example – "How Business Logic Can Manage Views" :: Part 1 :: Part 2 :: Part 3 :: Part 4
Chen Bekor :: ModifiedCairngormStore Example :: Uses mock delegates so that you can explore the example with a Java server, etc. :: Cairngorm 2.1 version :: Cairngorm 2.2.1 version
EasyMVC
MVCS
Joe Berkovitz :: The MVCS Architecture and ReviewTube Example Application
Articles
Adam Flater & Scott Sheridan :: Learning Flex From Scratch
Books
ActionScript 3.0 Animation :: Keith Peters
ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook :: Lott, Schall, Peters
Adobe Flex 2 - Training from the Source :: Tapper, Boles, Talbot, Elmore, Labriola
Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns :: Lott, Patterson
Essential ActionScript 3 :: Colin Moock
Programming Flex 2 :: Kazoun, Lott
Community
Adobe Boston User Group :: BFAIG is a sub-group of ABUG
Boston ColdFusion User Group :: Has lots of Flex-related meetings
Boston Flash Platform User Group :: Great meetings and their mailing list is a good place to ask questions.
CairngormDocs.org :: Their mailing list is a good place to ask questions about the Cairngorm architectural framework
flexcoders :: The primary mailing list for for Flex developers. Lots of traffic.
Online Tutorials
Lynda.com :: Great online video tutorials
Reference & Search
Adobe Labs - Flex 3 - Feature Introductions
Summary of Flex 3 Documentation