Marcus Scheisser has created a very nice 3D album image component for Flex. You are able to re-use it in your own projects. Just visit Marcus Scheisser blog and download source code.

3D-Album component

Learn how to implement Eastwood Charts and Google Charts, the differences and much more at this Dustin’s article.

Available at: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/gumbo/langref

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scalenine.com explains the process on how to skin flex components. Flex components will have a great improvement in terms of appearance. You now have total control to skin and design has you want.

Visit scalenine.com and search for the recent posts with this matter. You will find very useful and great information there.

Using a .NET Web Handler Kevin Brammer shares the code to create data feeds for Flash and Flex.

View article / code here at Kevin Brammer blog.

Grab this Open Source Flex Component by Josh Tynjala. TreeMap 2.0 (Beta) offers optimize performance, improve maintenance tasks and much more.

There’s a flextreemap discussion group so that you can discuss any problem or give some feedback.

No.1 Copy content to clipboard:
No.2 Clone an ArrayCollection:
No.3 Open URL:
No.4 Page reload:
No.5 Close browse:
No.6 Set the background alpha to transparent on Alert window:
No.7 Set random color：
No.8 Trim left of white space
No.9 Trim right of white space
No.10 Trim left and right of white space
No.11 get date type:
No.12 Generate check digits

12 useful function source in Flex

- Using an RIA framework to build Web 1.0 applications (aka. New technology same old stuff).
- Breaking standard browser experiences.
- Slowing the application down with the use of too many containers.
- Slowing the application down by using XML for data transfer over optimized protocols.
- Trying to hire Flex developers.
- Over use of animations
- Not setting up an enterprise ecosystem.
- Not using the entire framework.
- Slowing the DataGrid down with complex renderers.
- Not Preparing for Offline Applications.

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Skills:
ADOBE Flex, Web Server Integration, XML, and some server side knowledge

Location:
Cupertino, CA

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GFS Server allows you to communicate to and from Flash CS3 and Flex 3 applications/games. The free edition allows up to 30 connections.

GFS Server

Source Code

Some Features:

- Configure galleries via XML
- Configure runtime styles via XML
- Associate galleries with styles
- View prebuilt slideshows based on existing galleries
- Create custom slideshows from all galleries
- Watch slideshows with background music
- View all in fullscreen
- Zoom to pictures by double clicking

Eric Cancil