This guide will show you how to setup a Flex build environment on your computer that is a little friendlier than the pure command-line environment they give you, but definitely not quite as friendly as the ones that cost.

Google has just released a Flash edition of the Google Maps API. In this tutorial you will how to install the necessary components and build a very basic map.

With Web users expecting richer and more complex interfaces, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are seeing a huge increase in popularity. Adobe Flex is the tool of choice for many web developers when it comes to building RIAs...

You may have heard some buzz recently about Adobe's release of Flex 2. Flex is a collection of technologies that combine to give developers a strong framework for building Rich Internet Applications...

This tutorial will show you how to call javascript functions from flex and flex functions from javascript. There is a really nice example of the use of this on Google Finance, as well as a number of other google sites.

Here is a draft version for the Flex 3 Cheatsheets. A number of MXML controls are detailed on this draft. For the first few Flex 3 Cheatsheets I am thinking about following this format for the rest of the commonly used MXML controls and containers...

A few lessons learned while serializing custom classes.

This article is about my experiences in building applications in Flex to manipulate images. It will cover the basics of loading an image, saving a reference to it, adjusting color, applying pixel effects, changing its dimensions and orientation and ultimately saving these changes.

This weekend I needed to encode a rather large image as a jpeg using flex. And you know what I found? It was slow. And cpu hungry. While this was not entirely unexpected, it was disappointing...

Have you ever loaded an image dynamically in flex using the built in Image control? If so than you have seen how awful the antialiasing can be when scaling or rotating the image. The fix is actually quite simple.