Just a quick note about two great articles which were recently published:

ActionScript Collections and Functional Programming by Bruce Eckel
In this article Bruce provides examples and insights into the functional pieces of ActionScript. He also covers some of the lesser known things about Collections. I learned quite a bit from this one!

InfoQ Case Study: NASDAQ Market Replay
Jon Rose worked with NASDAQ to create a great case study about using Adobe AIR, Flex, and Amazon S3.
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<!– You Tube Player in Flex –>

<mx:Application xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml”
width=”100%” height=”100%” layout=”vertical”>
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
private var youtubevideolink:String = 'http://youtube.com/watch/v/CE9yKXSBARU'

private var youtubeloader:Loader = new Loader;

private function init(youTubeVideoLink:Object):void
{
var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest (String(youTubeVideoLink));
youtubeloader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.INIT, handlerLoaderInit);
youtubeloader.load(req);
}
// Function to play yOU TUBE VIDEO
private function handlerLoaderInit (event:Event):void
{
var urlVars:URLVariables = new URLVariables ();
urlVars.decode (youtubeloader.contentLoaderInfo.url.split("?")[1]);
var flvURL:String = constructYouTubeFLVURL (urlVars.video_id, urlVars.t);
utubeplayer.source =flvURL;
utubeplayer.play();

}
// Function for constructing youtube video url
private function constructYouTubeFLVURL (video_id:String, t:String):String
{
var str:String = “http://www.youtube.com/get_video.php?”;
str += “video_id=” + video_id;
str += “&t=” + t;
return str;
}
private function FullScreenVideo():void
{
utubeplayer.stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN;
}
]]>
</mx:Script>

<mx:Button label=”FullScreen” click=”FullScreenVideo()” />

<mx:VideoDisplay width=”100%” height=”100%” id=”utubeplayer” initialize=”init(youtubevideolink)” />

</mx:Application>

• Filthy Rich Flex Clients by Chet Haase - One of the great things about the Flex platform is that you can get up and running with good-looking GUIs quickly.
• Exploring the Open Source Flex SDK by Matt Chotin - Adobe has told you to “file a bug” so many times you want to throw things at them. Wouldn’t it be better if you could just fix the thing yourself and show the rest of the world how brilliant you are?
• Diving in the Data Binding Waters with Michael Labriola - Just about everyone who uses Flex uses data binding. Now come learn what you are actually doing when you add those curly brackets to your application.
• See the Data, Be the Data by Tony Hillerson & Juan Sanchez - Numbers, statistics, search results and focused information mean nothing without a sound way for immersing a user in exploration.
• Humor: Deepa’s Skinning Screencast - 360Flex San Jose keynote video.
• Day 1 Keynote by Mark Anders - Mark Anders tells us about Flex, Thermo, etc.
• High Definition Video & Flex Hands On by Christopher Keeler - This session covers the tools and workflows you need to produce and stream great HD video in the Flash player and Flex.
• PlexiGlass (OpenFlux 3D Components) by Ryan Campbell - PlexiGlass is a sub-project of OpenFlux using the same reusable MVC based components but replaces the view with a 3D renderer.
• Introduction to the Swiz Framework for Flex by Chris Scott - In this session Chris Scott will introduce, Swiz, a framework for Adobe Flex that aims to bring complete simplicity to RIA development. Swiz provides Inversion of Control, event handing, and simple life cycle for asynchronous remote methods.
• Mate Flex Framework by Laura Arguello - Using Mate Framework to build decoupled Flex applications by Laura Arguello. Join Laura as she walks you through how to build an application using Mate framework.
• Flex on Rails with RubyAMF by Tony Hillerson - Using RubyAMF to build AMF services in Rails and how to use these services in Flex.
• How to Build a Framework by Ben Stucki - In this talk, Stucki will cover all the various aspects of what goes into a framework.
• Case Study of An Internal Flex App At Yahoo! - Case Study of An Internal Flex Application At Yahoo! by Hien Luu & Subhadeep Chatterjee
• Advanced ActionScript APIs by Jacob Wright - Learn how to craft ActionScript libraries using advanced techniques. Use custom metadata to make your code easier to read and provide greater code-reuse. And harness the power of the Proxy class to give subclasses an easier way to access data.
• E4X by Marc Bir - What is E4X? How do I use it? Why would I use it? When should I use it?
• Flex and ColdFusion Using VO’s and CFC’s by Kevin Schmidt - Flex and ColdFusion Using VO’s and CFC’s
• Flex and Accessibility by Giorgio Natili - Create accessible custom component and make existing components like ILOG elixir accessible.
• Project Workflow by Axel Jensen - How to put together a team, and ways to communicate with free tools that are in the community.
• Reading the Flex source code by Jonathan Branam - Learn how to use the open source Flex SDK to improve your programming and solve problems. Introduction to the Flex source code explaining the class hierarchy, compositional classes, and the importance of interfaces.
• Creating Reusable Components by Ben Clinkinbeard - This session will talk about what to keep in mind when creating components that go beyond a single use.
• Ticketmaster Kiosk by Kevin Fauth - A high-level overview of the new Ticketmaster Kiosk. Covers items ranging from internationalization, security and other items.

ADDED 09/12/2008:

• Advanced State management by Troy Gardner - Cogs is a heirarchical statemachine library for use with AS3.0 projects.
• Reflective Programming by Eric Ko - This is not only a session to introduce Reflection in Flex, but also will provide the technical details how to implement it.
• Using the Flex Builder 3 Profiler by Jun Heider - During the session the functionality of the Flex Builder 3 Profiler will be explored through both background lecture, and most importantly various Flex Builder projects tuned to highlight key features of the Profiler.
• Polishing Components for the Unwashed Masses by Josh Tynjala - You built a custom Flex component! Now, you want to sell it, or you might want to release it open source.

ADDED 09/29/2008

• Flash Player 10 (Astro) Preview by Justin Everett-Church - This demo-oriented session will showcase the new features that are coming in Flash Player 10, code-named “Astro.”
• Diving Deep w/ the Flex Component Lifecycle by Owen & Umbaug <%  

21 Flex Videos from 360Flex San Jose 2008

Below is a list of 21 360Flex sessions with links to the

Tariq Ahmed :: Introduction Articles to Flex and Coldfusion

Matt Wright :: Everybody Likes CakePHP

Michael Ramirez :: Using AMFPHP 1.9 with the Flex 2 SDK

Renaun Erickson :: Flex AMFPHP and VO’s (RemoteObjectAMF0 update)

Renaun Erickson :: Getting WebORB for PHP Working

Renaun Erickson :: How to use Flex 2 RemoteObjects and PHP with SabreAMF

Renaun Erickson :: Using Flex 2 RemoteObject and SabreAMF

Tibor Ballai :: AMFPHP: Flash <–> PHP interaction

Victor Rubba :: Mapping VO’s from Flex to PHP using AMFPHP

Automated Code Generation

Victor Rubba :: amfphp/flex/cairngorm Codegen

Examples

Alan Gruskoff :: AMFPHP/MySQL Examples

Cahlan :: Uploading Files With PHP :: More info

Software

Adobe’s PHP SDK

AMFPHP :: Open-source Flash Remoting gateway

SabreAMF :: AMF client and server for PHP5

James O’Reilly :: Flex Primer for the C# Dot Net Developer

Blogs

Graeme Harker’s Flex.NET Blog

Vic On Flex

Tools

Flourine :: “an open source .Net Flash Remoting Gateway”

FluorineFx — theSilentGroup

FluorineFx provides an implementation of Flex/Flash Remoting, Flex Data Services and real-time messaging functionality for the .NET framework.

WebORB for .NET