Our Recommended Books
The following books come highly recommended by us and other top AIR developers.
Latest Online Resources
- Inside RIA - AIR features
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Inside RIA has some interesting articles surronding Adobe AIR.
- Flex in Motion - Google Analytics for monitoring Flex apps
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Flex Google Analytics Magic component will now allow you to track all of your Flex Application activities through Google Analytics.
- Pinvoke Icons
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400 (200 + 200) PNG icons available under Creative Commons license.
- FamFamFam Icons
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Excellent resource for over 200+ icons, ideal for any application's UI. They are totally free (always check the licensing) for personal and commercial works.
- FlexDeveloper.eu - Forums for Flex and AS3
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Active forums for all things related to Adobe Flex, AIR and ActionScript 3.
- Scale nine - Skins and Themes
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ScaleNine is a collection of skins and themes created for Flex and Adobe AIR.
- Sitepoint References - XHTML, CSS and JavaScript
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New reference site from Sitepoint. Currently only CSS and a beta version of HTML is available. Worth keeping an eye out for though.
- AMF PHP
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AMFPHP allows thin client applications built in languages such as Flash, Flex, and AIR to communicate directly with PHP class objects on the server.
- CSS reference
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Online CSS reference for CSS 2.01 with box model article too. Invaulable.
- XHTML Reference
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A full online reference for XHTML. Ideal for when you have forgotten that tag syntax!
- FITC Amsterdam - RIA meets Desktop
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Peter Elst's presentation from FITC 2008 on Adobe AIR, taking an RIA to the desktop.
- BluePrint CSS framework
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Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
- Scriptaculous - UI framework
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script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly.
- PrototypeJS Javascript framework
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Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
- MooTools Javascript framework
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MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API.