Introduction to Flex 2

Summary

I hope that this Short Cut has cut to the chase and avoided needless explanation and tedium, while calling out important tips that answer many questions that new Flex coders have. My goal was to upload enough Flex 2 into your brain for you to start working on the next big Web 2.0 application, get rich and retire early. Your comments are more than welcome: join the discussion on the site at http://www.partlyhuman.com/books/flexshortcut/.

If you are interested in finding out more about the topics presented here, O'Reilly Media has many resources related to this Short Cut, especially under their Adobe Developer Library co-publishing relationship:

• Programming Flex 2.0 (authors: Chafic Kazoun & Joey Lott)

• Flex 2.0 User Interface Design & Development (authors: Matt Voerman & Simon Reid)

• Flex 2.0 Cookbook (authors:Several)

• ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook (authors:Joey Lott, Darron Schall, Keith Peters)

• Essential ActionScript 3.0 (author: Colin Moock)

• ActionScript 3.0 Quick Reference (author: William Sanders)

• ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns (authors: William Sanders and Chandima Cumaranatunge)

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