I'm really excited to have my first tutorial published in the premier web design magazine .NET issue 192 (Practical Web Design in the USA). The 4 page tutorial uses Flex and Adobe AIR to create a desktop application for uploading and viewing your movies on YouTube. All tutorial files and the finished AIR application are packaged on the CD with the magazine.

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I'm really excited to be presenting a session on Adobe AIR at Bath Camp on July 1st. It' going to be an introductory session into what Adobe AIR is, how you can develop for it and a view of some cool apps created using the framework. Bath Camp is going to be the first non Adobe focused event that I'm speaking at so it's a great chance to meet up with other developers and designers from the Bath & Bristol region.

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Adobe Flex is a great platform to work with for creating rich engaging applications of all sizes for the web and now the desktop with AIR. Now we are at Flex version 3 and the next version Flex 4, which is the SDK, and the editor now called Flash Builder are just around the corner. There are a number of resources, guides and articles that I use regularly when building Flex or AIR applications. This is a growing resource so bookmark the page and feel free to suggest anything that I may have missed. Here we go then:

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