This article covers:

- How to protect your users’ data by implementing continuous save
- How to forgive user mistakes by providing undo and cancel operations
- How to make users aware of the consequences of irreversible actions by providing appropriately prominent feedback
- How to keep your application secure through appropriately implemented security mechanisms.

Adobe Developer Center

Jack Herrington has used Flex to create a Rich Internet Application to manage MySQL administration.

Read the step-by step guide to achieve this task.

Another usefull tutorial on how to build your personal FLV Player. By Newtriks Flex + Flash Development.

Take a look at this good John Valentino article/tutorial about Flex.

Adobe - Developer Center article by James Ward explaining how to create an RIA using Java for the back-end business logic and Flex for the front-end view of the application.

Bill Bejeck article available now at Adobe Developer Center.

Via gotoandlearn.com

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- How to eliminate unnecessary steps from common user tasks.
- How to find ways to automate repetitive tasks and remember information.
- How to give users a head start by providing good application starting points.
- How to improve your application’s responsiveness by focusing on the parts that make the biggest difference to users.
- How to manage user expectations for operations that are necessarily time consuming.

Adob Developer Center

This tutorial by Flexcubed will teach you how to develop a Flex component using Actionscript classes. At the end of the tutorial you should be able to generate a distributable Flex component in SWC format.

Complete video tutorial explaining how can you create a Flex application from scratch.

This Charlie Key article goes into detail about communicating between Flex and JavaScript using the ExternalInterface API.

This tutorial explains the basics of creating multiple component web applications using JavaScript as the glue that holds them together.

- Loading data from Flex
- Returning data from .NET
- CRUD with Flex and .NET
- ORM tools and code generators
- Client synchronization

Mark Piller Acrobat Connect eSeminar

The 6th part of Rob Adams tutorial “Designing for Flex”

Topics covered:

- The differences between motion design in Flex applications and motion design in other mediums.
- How to use motion to leverage users’ instinctual understanding of the physical world to enhance your application’s usability.
- How to use screen to screen transitions to help guide users to the next area of interest and make it clear how to return.
- How to use motion effects to provide feedback and focus your users’ attention.

Adobe Devloper Center

Tutorial to create a login system with Adobe Flex and PHP.

Part 1 - Creating the GUI
Part 2 - Programming the GUI
Part 3 - The PHP Backend
Part 4 - View States and Special Effects

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Integrate Flex SWF in XUL and develop a cool Firefox extension.

Details here

Get to read this Note19.com article on how to embed Google Maps in your Flex application.

Cool tip.

Take a look at Mark Niemann-Ross article at Adobe Developer Center showing a trick to create a custom component based on the Flex checkbox component.

“Designing content displays” is the title for 5th chapter of the Designing for Flex article at Adobe Developer Center by Rob Adams.

This chapter covers:

- Information design – designing applications around their content.
- How to design interfaces that allow users to navigate content.
- How to design interfaces that allow users to manipulate content.
- How to provide feedback on user actions in a content-focused interface.
- How to employ standard controls in a content-focused interface.
- How to design controls so that they don’t take focus away from the content.

Get your hands on the full article here.