Our Recommended Books
The following books come highly recommended by us and other top AIR developers.
Latest Online Resources
- Anatomy of a seriously sophisticated AIR application
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The AKQA session slides from Adobe Max 08 about how they built the Fiat Eco:Drive AIR application.
- Adobe Max Europe Keynote
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Notes from the Adobe keynote session held at Max 08.
- Scalenine Adobe Max presentation
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Juan Sanchez Adobe Max presentation on prototyping AIR applications in Fireworks CS4.
- Circular Icons
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Great set of around 100+ mini circular icons under Creative Commons usage.
- Sweetie
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A lovely set of 182 icons released under creative commons and commercial use if encouraged. Fantastic.
- GoSquared
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70 vector buttons in Illustrator format, SVG or JPEG. Great for use in your AIR apps
- AS3 design patterns
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The website of the ActionScript 3 design patterns book.
- Flex Client Architecture slides
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On Acrobat.com this presentation from Scotch on the Rocks is a good read on best practices when using or considering Cairngorm and design patterns.
- Powercursor
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Powercursor is a Flash toolkit for making interfaces that you can 'touch'. Interesting concept and something that could be useful for developers.
- ActionScript Collections and Functional Programming
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Bruce Eckel gives a great detailed insight into ActionScript 3 collections that you need to read in your a Flex or ActionScript developer.
- Ganto free PSD icons
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24 free icons sets in Photoshop PSD format. Restrictions are you can't offer them for sale or provide them for download.
- Smashingapps
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A collection of online stuff for designers and developers alike.
- EXE installer for AIR
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Package your AIR app and the AIR runtime together using this script for Windows only. You will also have to get permission from Adobe to distribute the AIR runtime.
- Flash CS3 SWC for Flex
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use this SWC if you want to use the Flash CS3 components in a Flex Actionscript project, from the AboutNico.
- AIR for Ruby on Rails Developers
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Resources list for Ruby on Rails developers who are looking into AIR and Flex.
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- FITC Toronto
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Toronto Canada April 24-27, 2009 The original Flash In The Can location again for 2009 the design and technology festival. Book your tickets now.
- FITC Amsterdam 2009
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Amsterdam, NL February 22-24, 2009 The Flash In The Can team return for a second year in Amsterdam - Design Technology and cool sh*t. Last years conference was fantastic and Amsterdam is a wonderful city plus the legendary FITC parties. So go get your tickets now people!
- Flash in the Beach - Miami '09
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After a successful Flash on the Beach in Brighton, UK, John and the team are taking FOTB to Miami! The dates are the 5th - 8th April 2009 and tickets will go on sale in November.
- Adobe MAX 2009 Japan
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Tokyo, Japan — January 29 - 30, 2009, Hotel Grand Pacific Le Daiba. Registration not yet Open
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