Re: [flexcoders] Where to learn intermediate/advanced Flex?

2007-08-31 Thread Jatin Nanda
Books wise: - - training from the source is not too bad - total training dvd. Personally though: - 1) Developers Guide (as Doug said) 2) Flex Quick Starts on adobe 3) blog.flexamples.com (i think that's the URL). This guy has some very very simple exp. Its amazing what you can learn. BTW - it

Re: [flexcoders] Where to learn intermediate/advanced Flex?

2007-08-31 Thread grimmwerks
I also think the Lynda vids are worthwhile.

Re: [flexcoders] Where to learn intermediate/advanced Flex?

2007-08-31 Thread greg h
Hi Kyle, Excellent replies from all so far. And obviously there is no substitute for doing what you are already doing ... practice, practice, practice ... build, build, build. Who knows, maybe one day you will be able to explain to Matt Chotin http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mchotin/ things about

[flexcoders] Where to learn intermediate/advanced Flex?

2007-08-30 Thread Kyle Neath
I feel like I'm coming to a point now where I get the basics of Flex. I've got the whole component architecture down, I know the basics of Actionscript. I can create my own components by extending UIComponent and implementing the proper interfaces. But I still feel like there's so much I have to

RE: [flexcoders] Where to learn intermediate/advanced Flex?

2007-08-30 Thread Blake Barrett
AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Where to learn intermediate/advanced Flex? I feel like I'm coming to a point now where I get the basics of Flex. I've got the whole component architecture down, I know the basics of Actionscript. I can create my own components by extending

RE: [flexcoders] Where to learn intermediate/advanced Flex?

2007-08-30 Thread Battershall, Jeff
: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blake Barrett Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 3:18 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Where to learn intermediate/advanced Flex? Just start tackling projects. You can never be sure that you can't

Re: [flexcoders] Where to learn intermediate/advanced Flex?

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Connolly
There's the Flex 2 Developer's Guidehttp://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flex/. That's pretty comprehensive and I find a lot of answers in there. On 8/30/07, Kyle Neath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel like I'm coming to a point now where I get the basics of Flex. I've got the whole

Re: [flexcoders] Where to learn intermediate/advanced Flex?

2007-08-30 Thread Doug McCune
Dive into the Framework source. IMO that's the best thing to study. Figure out how Adobe made all the components in the Framework. Pick something that you don't like about one of the framework components and try to change it. Subclass the framework class you want to alter and hack away. If you

Re: [flexcoders] Where to learn intermediate/advanced Flex?

2007-08-30 Thread Kyle Neath
Doug: Heh, I think that's part of the thing that drove me here. One of my first projects in Flex had a lot to do with DataGrid. After sitting there for 20 seconds while my Grid rendered, I had tons of fun reading pretty much every line in DataGrid and DataGridBase. What came out of it was that