Google Image Search

Just tried google's image search for curiosity. I use the profile picture from Szechuan Legend Restaurant's Facebook page.
The result comes with many colorful bamboo design. and the suggested keyword is "bamboo background". Not bad in my opinion.

蜀香苑网站上加入了Facebook 和 Twitter

今天更新了网站，在抬头上加上了“Facebook” Page 的链接和 “Twitter” Follow。而且在每页上也植入了“Like”和“Tweet”功能。原来从来没研究过，原来Facebook还有这么多机关，而且推广网站和推广在Facebook上的Page还有很大不同。Tweet也是，还没搞的太清楚。
朋友对我网站界面的赞赏，很是让我激动啊！希望以后的“真功夫”也能接纳。呵呵...

Cairngorm 3 and Parsley in Flex

Past a couple of years, I involved a few projects using Flex tech. we had some problems in my team when developing enterprise project. One is the code maintenance. As the project grows, AS commands, servce controls and UI mxml always involved together and hard to decouple. The other is unit test. The Flex is a very powerful event driven framework. However, when I wrote the unit test for a particular part of code, it because very hard to handle when the data is ready cause I don't know when the event will be triggered to generate the data required for unit tests if testing part involving UI operations.
Starting this year, we introduce Cairngorm 3 framework guideline and Parsley injection framework library. These techs hopefully help us to address the issue. MVC is a long existing framework, which decouple commands, views and controls. The idea of Cairngorm guideline is a implementation of decoupling in Flex. The Parsley lib is a popular IoC framework lib to use.
The resources I found are very useful:

1. Adobe Cairngorm Home
   The first place you should go.
2. Parsley lib Home
   Where you can find the guide to using Parsley and it's API.
3. Arturo Alvarado's Quick Dive into Parsley
   A very good step-by-step guide to know about Parsley.

Unlike Cairngorm 2, Cairngorm 3 is a general guideline with a couple of helpful libs to develop Flex project. I hope there's no much obstacle to use the framework for my project.

"Hello World" App of Flex+Google App Engine+BlazeDS

I've been long time to look some way to develop my sample server host app without a penny.
I registered Google App Engine and Google Site a few years ago, but they both has some limits to start building a site.
Today, after I read this post, I think I may start to build a Flex site, which I can use Flex, Messaging Server and Data Communication Objects. Let's see when I will have my first app posted.

Flint Particle System - Cool Flex Effects

Flint Particle System is a very cool open-source library to add effects in Flash. It can be added in AS, Flash or Flex project. The site also provide many example to get started.

Link: 28 Rich Data Visualization Tools

This is a list of data visualization tools for RIA:
28 Rich Data Visualization Tools

from InsideRIA .

A list resources from Flex team's blog:

Blogs from the source

Here's a fairly comprehensive list of blogs maintained by engineers on the Flex, Flash Builder, and Catalyst teams. You'll find plenty of examples, tutorials, tips and tricks, and discussion on new features available in our betas.

(in no particular order :) they're all awesome)

Flex team:

Matt Chotin's Blog

Flex Examples - numerous Flex examples

Flexophile

flexreport - a discussion of the less intuitive aspects of Flex components and applications

Pete's Blog

Daniel Koestler - AIR, Flex, Flash, and other Adobe technology

Peter deHaan - Confessions of a Flex QA

Hans Muller's Flex Blog - a technical blog about the Flex 4 (Gumbo) API (stay tuned for posts about new Flex support for scrolling and layout virtualization)

Flex Butterflies and Bugs - Flex news, workarounds for bugs and solutions for common problems, from a quality perspective

Codependent - graphics and animation with Flex and the Flash platform

Frish's blog - Flex 4 (Gumbo)

iamdeepa on flex

Flexponential - DataGroup, List, virtualization, Flex Component Kit, and more

Quietly Scheming - examples and custom components

Evtimmy - custom layouts

Alex's Flex Closet - examples and discussion of common problems, especially around memory management and item renderers

Tips and Tools of Flex - tools in the Flex SDK

Flex Spaghetti - code samples, tips, and a couple ramblings about the Flex bug database

Just Suppose - UI, Flex, and Flash

Flash Builder team:

Getting and Setting - Builder coding features like refactoring and code generation

mikemo - Builder debugger

Tim Buntel's Web Log - Flex particularly relating to the ColdFusion

Flex Thoughts - Flex charts, general IDE features and DCD (Data Centric Development) features of Builder

Marking Occurrences - Flash Builder language intelligence features such as Find References

Radhakrishna's blog

Flex Automation - Automation of Flex apps

A Flex Enthusiast!

Flex Guard - Builder DCD for LCDS and BlazeDS servers, using Profiler and Network Monitor features of Builder 4

My Take On Tech - DMV Charts and more to come on PHP workflow (DCRAD)

Exploring Flex - DCD workflow of Builder - details of the wizards that form DCD

Sujit Reddy G – The Evangelist - DCD features in Builder

The GLog (Geek bLOG) - Flash Builder, Eclipse and Java

Catalyst team:

much ado about something - Flex/AIR/Flash Catalyst

Auto Complete Input Resources

There are a couple of customized components available, such as

• Adobe Exchange
• Kuwamoto
• Flex AutoComplete: Version 0.98.1 at Hillel Coren

The last one from Hillel Coren seems very nice and suitable for my project.

Icons, Fonts download and Flex SkinTutorials collection

some resources for design skins and icons.

100000+ Free Fonts For Skins and Themes
A list of free font download site.

480+ free icon sets to create skins and themes in Flex
A list of free icon set collection for download

15+ Tutorials for Creating Skins and Themes in Flex
A list of tutorial collection of Flex skin and themes.

Degrafa : Declarative Graphics Framework

The focus behind the Declarative Graphics Framework (Degrafa) is to bring the graphics classes up a level to provide a common ground between developer and designer within Flex, and enable the graphics classes to become first class citizens within the Flex framework.

Home: http://www.degrafa.com
Code: http://code.google.com/p/degrafa/
Group: http://groups.google.com/group/degrafa/

Link: the list of helpful Flex or Flash debug tools

Debugging tools collection:
Debugging AS3 with "firebug’s console" combined with "FlashTracer" will take efficiency's advantage.

the list of helpful Flex or Flash debug tools

from: Ntt.cc (http://ntt.cc/)

Link: 36 New, Cool Flex and AS3 Tools, Libraries and Components

very useful resources:

36 New, Cool Flex and AS3 Tools, Libraries and Components

By: Sean Moore (http://www.seantheflexguy.com/)

Flex Resources and Blog Collection

Flex Blog Collection
Doug McCune: http://dougmccune.com/blog/
David Coletta: http://www.colettas.org/
Ely Greenfield: http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/
Eric Cancil: http://blog.3r1c.net/
Peter Ent: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/
Ben Stucki: http://blog.benstucki.net/
Darron Schal: http://weblog.cahlan.com/
Brendan Meutzner: http://www.meutzner.com/blog/index.cfm
Arpit Mathur: http://www.arpitonline.com/blog/
Andrew Trice: http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/
Mike Nimer: http://blog.mikenimer.com/

Component, Widget List
http://www.brightworks.com/technology/adobe_flex/components_widgets_etc.html

List of 31 Flex APIs, Libraries, Components and Tools
http://seantheflashguy.com/blog/2007/08/21/list-of-31-flex-apis-libraries-components-and-tools/

Flex 2 Primitive Explorer
http://www.3gcomm.fr/Flex/PrimitiveExplorer/Flex2PrimitiveExplorer.html