Flex Lecture and Yahoo! Wikisearch

Here's what we've covered over the last 3 weeks.

Flex Lecture PPT

Yahoo! Wiki-search Widget


The flex code we did in class:

Google Employees Example (UI Components and XML data)
Dealing with external service
Mashup Paul and I made...code isn't so clean

To get started in Flex, I would reccomend using Flex Builder. You can get all the info here: Download Flex SDK, Builder, etc.... There's also some good tutorials here: Getting started with Flex

One cool website we showed you guys was ProgrammableWeb which lists API's and cool mashups that others have done.

If you want to know some good JavScript or Flex online resources and/or books, let me know, and I'll post some stuff I use.

Good Blogs

Here's a really good blog post by Bruce Eckel (famous for writing Thinking in C/Thinking in Java series) talking about how the web environment is different (and perhaps a biased view of Adobe Flex): http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=193593

Some blogs that are updated quite frequently that I read are:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/ - ReadWriteWeb often times has some really insightful comments about the new web

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/ - Ryan Stewart talks about Rich Internet Applications and technologies emerging out of it. He's a little biased and doesn't believe in the AJAX as an Rich Internet Application tool

http://www.techcrunch.com/ - TechCrunch keeps up-to date with news items about companies forming or new products coming out. It's usually not too insightful but still very good to keep up with

Hopefully at some point, I'll post a list of all the blogs I read, but this will be good start for now. I really recommend getting an RSS read and subscribing to these places (you can even subscribe to this blog!).

If you have some good blogs or news sites, post it in the comments.

-Ryan