Sumesh Madhavan

- Bangalore, India

Flex

Big page of adobe flex:

Being exposed to flex for about 3 years now, I had to dedicate a big page to it. The current version is 3.3 with the release of version 4 being imminent (Q3, 2009).

1. Flex homepage: http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/

2. Sample Flex apps: http://flex.org/showcase/

3. Download: http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/flexdownloads/

4. Livedocs: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/

5. API/Reference: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/

6. BlazeDS: http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/Flex/Creating+a+BlazeDS+messaging+application+in+Flex+Builder

Cool Apps:

1. Cooliris
Awesome firefox browser plugin

http://www.cooliris.com

2. Tour de flex
Desktop (Air) application to demonstrate flex’s capabilities http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/tourdeflex/
Web version - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/tourdeflex/web/#sampleId=0;illustIndex=0;docIndex=0

Cool Tools:

1. papervision 3d

http://blog.papervision3d.org/

http://www.paper-face.com/paperface02/main.html

2. google maps

http://javey.net/bike/map/player2/map.html

3. drill down charts

http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/drillDown/app.html

4. chart range selector

http://coolestflex.blogspot.com/2008/04/flex-chart-range-selector.html

5. microcharts

http://birdeye.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/qavis/examples/bin/QaVisExplorer.html

http://www.brightpointinc.com/flexdemos/360flex/MicroChartsSample.html

6. charts

http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/ChartSampler/app.html

http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/ChartSampler/srcview/index.html

http://coolestflex.blogspot.com/2008/06/3d-charts-using-papervision3d-by-andrew.html

http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/03/22/why-i-love-flex-charting-example/

http://www.meutzner.com/blog/attachments/360/sample_index.htm

http://www.meutzner.com/blog/attachments/360/srcview/index.html

http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/

Other Charting:
1. Google visualization – http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?type=visualization
2. Software FX – http://demo.softwarefx.com/chartfx/aspnet/ajaxsamples/

http://www.softwarefx.com/sfxGallery/

3. The biggest list – http://www.insideria.com/2009/12/28-rich-data-visualization-too.html

7. style explorer

http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex3StyleExplorer.html

8. advanced graphics

http://www.degrafa.org/samples/data-visualization.html

9. games

http://www.flexstuff.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/examples/flexpong/srcview/index.html

http://www.flexstuff.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/examples/flexpong/FlexPong.swf

10. coverflow

http://dougmccune.com/blog/2007/11/03/coverflow-flex-component/

http://labs.blitzagency.com/?p=314

http://labs.blitzagency.com/wp-content/070522/BLITZ_Papervision_UI_DEMO.swf

11. Geocode & 3d globe

http://www.nealmi.cn/2008/06/geocode-with-papervision3d-and-adobe.html

12. Shadow under windows

http://www.nealmi.cn/2008/11/making-things-more-interactive.html

13. Link on a tooltip

http://www.nealmi.cn/2008/05/persistentinteractive-tooltip.html

13. Designer effects for flex

http://www.efflex.org/EfflexExplorer.html

http://code.google.com/p/efflex/source/checkout

14. Regular expression explorer

http://ryanswanson.com/regexp/

Flex blogs:

Flex forums:

Good flash examples:

1. 3d cube – http://www.carlosrovira.com

2. 3d pages – http://www.codeoscopic.com