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We would like to share with the list with our preferred blogs on adobe flex news , and also the top flex resource websites that could came handy anytime

NEWS and Cool Stuff:

* Mihai Corlan’s personal blog
http://corlan.org – Mihai is a flash platform evangelist at Adobe Inc. and one of the most interesting peoples we meet

* Doug McCune
http://dougmccune.com/blog/ – Doug is a pretty big name in the Flex community (he gives presentations all over the country at Flex events), most of the items you are going to find on his site are examples of cool applications built using Flex.

* CFLEX: Community Flex

http://www.cflex.net/

* Dzone
http://www.dzone.com/links/index.html – Dzone is a great community based site for sharing developer links. The site is setup in a similar fashion as popular sites such as Digg or Reddit.

* Flex.org
http://flex.org/ – Flex.org is the main community site for Flex developers, which includes a showcase and resources for everything from PHP to .Net.

Resources & Examples:

* Adobe Flex Developer Center
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/ – The Adobe Developer Center is great resource for complete tutorials and articles on how to get started with Flex or any of the other Adobe products. The other Adobe resource is the Cookbook which is built off of community code snippets that solve small programming tasks.

* Flex Examples
Peter deHaan currently works for Adobe on the Flex SDK QA team. He writes so many small tutorials that it’s hard to even keep up with this man on any level.

* Alex Harui
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/ -Alex writes short posts that are usually nice Flex examples solving common and uncommon problems people run across in Flex. He works with the Adobe Flex core team in San Francisco.

* ScaleNine
http://www.scalenine.com/ – Skins and Themes for Flex and AIR

* Flex SDK

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK

* Flex Showcase

http://flex.org/showcase/

* Flex Developer Center

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/

* Franto.com
http://www.franto.com/ – Flex, AIR, Flash, ActionScript Tutorials, Tips, Tricks.

* The Flex Show

http://www.theflexshow.com/blog/

* Marco Casario

http://casario.blogs.com/mmworld/

The following example shows how you can set vertical spacing between paragraphs in a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4 by setting the paragraphSpaceBefore and paragraphSpaceArea styles.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/06/05/setting-vertical-spacing-between-paragraphs-on-the-spark-textarea-control-in-flex-4/ -->
<s:Application name="Spark_TextArea_paragraphSpaceBefore_test"
        xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
        xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
        xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo">
    <s:layout>
        <s:VerticalLayout />
    </s:layout>

    <fx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            private function sliderBefore_change(evt:Event):void {
                textArea.setStyle("paragraphSpaceBefore", sliderBefore.value);
            }

            private function sliderAfter_change(evt:Event):void {
                textArea.setStyle("paragraphSpaceAfter", sliderAfter.value);
            }
        ]]>
    </fx:Script>

    <mx:ApplicationControlBar width="100%" cornerRadius="0">
        <mx:Form styleName="plain">
            <mx:FormItem label="paragraphSpaceBefore:">
                <s:HSlider id="sliderBefore"
                        liveDragging="true"
                        change="sliderBefore_change(event);" />
            </mx:FormItem>
            <mx:FormItem label="paragraphSpaceAfter:">
                <s:HSlider id="sliderAfter"
                        liveDragging="true"
                        change="sliderAfter_change(event);" />
            </mx:FormItem>
        </mx:Form>
    </mx:ApplicationControlBar>

    <s:Group width="100%" height="100%">
        <s:TextArea id="textArea"
                textAlign="justify"
                left="10" right="10"
                top="10" bottom="10">
            <s:content>
                <fx:String source="lorem.html" />
            </s:content>
        </s:TextArea>
    </s:Group>

</s:Application>

The next version of our IDE, Flex Builder, will be called Flash Builder 4.

There is already available a public beta for Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst (check Adobe Labs for downloads).

Mihai Corlan (Platform Evangelist for Adobe):
“At the same time, we will not change the name of Flex Builder 3. This will stay as it is now. Furthermore, the names of the Flex framework, and the Flex SDK, remain unchanged. The same goes for Flash Professional, which remains unchanged.”
….
“This has happened to me more than once. When I ask people at conferences “Who’s a Flex developer?” many people are unsure how to answer. Why? Because some of you are using the Flex framework, to create Flex or AIR applications, and not our IDE (Flex Builder), some of you are using Flex Builder, but without using the Flex framework (you use ActionScript 3 to create Flash applications). Thus the uncertainty.

Of course, the correct answer is this: anyone who uses the Flex framework, is a Flex developer. It doesn’t matter what tools you use to create these applications. At the same time, any Flex application gets compiled into a SWF file, which is played by the Flash Player. The same happens with the applications written using ActionScript and not the Flex framework.

So looking at it from this perspective, I think it makes a lot of sense. Have the developer tool that is used for creating Flash/AIR applications with or without the Flex framework called Flash Builder 4.”

We wish you all a great Christmas and for the New Year we hope all your dreams came true. We have big expectations for 2009 and we hope you will take part to our future releases and events. Also keep the eye on our blog and forum pages because we are preparing interesting things for everyone. Hope we made you curious with this news, see you soon…