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Hi

be sure to checkout FFDMag.com a very handy magazine on all thing Flash and Flex.
Signup for their newsletter and receive their online magazine for free.

http://www.ffdmag.com

If you want to get to grips with Flash Catalyst be sure to checkout the link below - Lynda.com now has a free section of video tutorials on Flash Catalyst.

I have not personally gone through these but if they are anything like the scores of video tutorials on Flex, Drupal, etc that I been through - these should be awesome.

http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=778&utm_source=LDC&utm...

enjoy ;)

I have been looking into frameworks for Flex recently - you will find tons of blog posts around the frameworks out there.

The most useful post I have found thusfar can be found at the Adobe Developer Connection site - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex_framework.html

The article outlines the most popular frameworks available currently i.e.
- Cairngorm
- Mate
- PureMVC
- Swiz

Personally I am stuck between Swiz and Mate - I am going to go with Mate first though because it has more documentation then Swiz.

I will let you know what I think once I have given it a go.

We have a copy of the Actionscript 3.0 Quick Reference Guide from O'Reilly up for grabs. We will randomly select an AUGPTA registered member on the last day of February 2009.

So if you are not registered yet and would like to stand a chance to win you'd better register right now

good luck

p.s. Danny and myself will not be eligible for the draw ;)

http://groups.adobe.com/

The meeting went great last night, we had 10 attendees and the last members left at 10pm.
A big thank you to Brazen Head for being a great host!

I will post pics later today.

Links discussed:

flexcertification in 50 days
Exam prep guide

Danny Kopping has been made Co-manager for the group, congrats Danny.

A very handy book for anyone interested in learning Flex 3. This little book is packed full of examples to show you what Flex is capable of and loads of snippets to get you coding in no time.

A quick read (for those of you with little time to spare) that gets you well acquainted with the Flex controls.

The Projects in the book take you from adding drop shadows on photos to accessing web services and the final chapter on Resources for Flex developers will provide you with enough info to continue on to becoming the Flex master you know you want to be ;)