The latest Adobe Flex tutorials and lessons for web developers

As conscientious developers we try to ensure that our applications are streamlined, self explanatory, and easy to use. We work hard to make sure they look good and lend themselves well to a given workflow, but often forget that not everyone experiences our work in the same way. From dyslexia and color blindness to full visual impairment and mobility issues, a percentage of the population face obstacles that can make using an application difficult or even impossible. In this article Toby examines several ways to tailor your Flex applications to make sure they work for all users.

In this final installment of his Data Visualization with Flex series, Toby builds on the work from the first two parts to take our visualization to the next level. The final product allows you to visualize how often various tech key words are used on the SitePoint forums, and how they are connected. Even if you’re new to the series, it’s worth having a look to see the visualization in action!

In part I of this series, Toby showed us how to extract a subset of useful information from a truly massive set of raw data: nearly all the posts from the SitePoint forums! In part II, we’ll set about turning that data into a useful visualization, showing how often keywords are used in an impressive, interactive graph.

Adobe’s Flex can be a fantastic tool for visualizing data. In this first installment of a three-part series, Toby gives us some general theory on data visualization, and shows us how to extract meaningful data from an application and import it into Flex.

In parts I and II, Andrew showed us how to build a slick-looking Flash frontend for Twitter and Flickr using the beta versions of Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4. In this final installment in the series he takes our application a step further by adding video functionality: allowing users to upload videos, and to take screenshots of their videos to post as images.

In his previous article, Andrew created a simple Twitter application using Adobe Flex. In this article he enhances that Flex application by adding the ability to upload photographs to the popular Flickr image hosting service, and then use bit.ly to integrate a shortened link to the photo in a tweet.

In this first part of a three-part series, Andrew shows us how we can write a Twitter app in Flex and PHP.

Flex 4, codenamed Gumbo, is the latest version of Adobe’s popular Rich Internet Application (RIA) framework, and developers can now get their hands on the beta! Andrew Muller offers us a taste of what's new in Flex 4.

With ColdFusion and Flex, it's easy to produce nifty Rich Internet Applications. In this article, Kai Koenig gives us the solid grounding needed to build a well architected RIA. Plus, take our quiz and score a free copy of Getting Started with Flex!

Ever wanted to combine the rich user interface of Flex with the reliable server-side processing that PHP provides? You can! In this tutorial, Lennart demonstrates how to turn a PHP app into a slick, Flex-driven widget.