Peter deHaan

• Flex Team blog: Flex SDK 3.5 Released
• Just Suppose (Corey Lucier): Getting Fancy with Flex 4, Get Fancy with Flex 4 - Part Two
• James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Integrating Adobe Flex with IBM WebSphere Portal
• Codedependent (Chet Haase): Video: Visual Component State Feedback
• Alex's Flex Closet (Alex Harui): Constrained Drag and Drop
• Flexponential (Kevin Lin): Resizable TitleWindow in Flex 4
• James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Flash Builder 4 Data Wizards with Java / Spring
• James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Right90's Super-Sexy Enterprise Flex RIA
• Mihai CORLAN: 5 Flash applications
• Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Making Su (sudoku)
• Codedependent (Chet Haase): Video: Animating Button State Changes
• Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Compiler error with selectedChild in Flex 4 with code that worked in Flex 3
• Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Simple Method Closure in AS3
• Flexponential (Steven Shongrunden): Caching images loaded from a spark item renderer
• James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Flex 4, Java, Spring, and Hibernate in Flash Builder 4
• James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Flex and The Cloud
• Flexponential (Steven Shongrunden): Major axis alignment now supported in spark
• Pearls of Flex (Sreenivas Ramaswamy): New GroupingCollection2 class with improved perforamnce
• Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Avoiding a Flex 4 error when using PopUpManager.addPopUp()
• Codedependent (Chet Haase): Video: Animating Gradients for 3D Look and Feel
• Alex's Flex Closet (Alex Harui): CheckBoxes in DataGrid With CheckBox Header

• The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Can Flash CS5 do Arabic text correctly?
• The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Why the Open Screen Project is so important
• Flash Media Blog (Kevin Towes): Medici.tv using the Adobe Flash Platform to deliver high quality music performances online
• The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Video of Flash multi-touch on Windows and Mac
• FlashRealtime (Tom Krcha): List of Flash Gaming Engines
• The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flash CS5 iPhone multi-touch
• Flash Media Blog (Kevin Towes): Epix brings thousands of films to Cox subscribers using Adobe Flash
• The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flash Player 10.1 multi-touch FAQ
• ByteArray.org (Thibault Imbert): Game Controllers in AIR 2.0
• senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Private Browsing in Flash Player 10.1
• Emmy Huang: Private browsing with Flash Player 10.1
• FlashRealtime (Tom Krcha): FreeSpin3D: full 3D in Flash Professional
• senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Parameter initializer unknown or is not a compile-time constant.
• FlashRealtime (Tom Krcha): Flash Game Development for Beginners
• Flash Media Blog (Kevin Towes): RTMFP Groups / Multicast now available from Adobe Labs
• FlashRealtime (Tom Krcha): Updated Stratus with Groups and Multicast

• Christian Cantrell: Setting HTML Focus From Flash or Flex Content in AIR
• AIR Team blog (Rob Christensen): National Geographic Releases Engaging App Built By EffectiveUI and Powered by Adobe AIR
• Pursuit of Simplicity (Oliver Goldman): API Tip: Don't Abuse File.applicationStorageDirectory
• Pursuit of Simplicity (Oliver Goldman): Update Your Application Regularly
• Pursuit of Simplicity (Oliver Goldman): Update Strategies for Changing Certificates
• AIR Team blog (Rob Christensen): Quickly Build Native Installers for Adobe AIR 2
• AIR Team blog (Rob Christensen): Preparing for Adobe AIR 2
• Pursuit of Simplicity (Oliver Goldman): Application Update Security and Native Application Installers
• AIR Team blog (Rob Christensen): Tour de Flex Updated With Additional Adobe AIR 2 Samples
• AIR Team blog (Rob Christensen): ASDocr Simplifies Documenting Your Flex-based Applications
• AIR Team blog (Rob Christensen): Zoodles: A Browser Designed To Make Learning Fun for Kids

For example:
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"     xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"     xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx">

For more information see http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-24568 and http://forums.adobe.com/message/2445911.

I did a quick scan and here's a list of the Flex/Flash Builder specific looking sessions:

• "Coding with Flash Professional and Builder" -- Rebecca Sun
• "Flash Professiona, Flash Catalyst, and Flash Builder: Facts, Features, and (Work)Flows" -- Richard Galvan, Ryan Stewart, and Serge Jespers
• "Preview: Flex For Mobile Devices" -- Ely Greenfield, and Greg Burch
• "Flash Builder 4 Advanced Tips and Tricks" -- Scott Evans
• "The Advantages of Flex" -- Jeff Tapper
• "What's New in Flash Builder 4" -- Tim Buntel
• "Effects in Flex 4" -- Chet Haase
• "A Deep Dive into Flex 4 Lists and Layouts" -- Glenn Ruehle
• "What's New In Flex 4" -- Ely Greenfield
• "How Not to Code Flex Applicatoins" -- Jeff Tapper
• "Tackling Memory and Performance in Flash, Flex, and Adobe AIR" -- Jonathan Campos, and Jun Heider
• "Moving from Flex 3 to Flex 4: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly..." -- Joan Lafferty
• "Building Accessible Flex and Adobe AIR Applications" -- Michael A. Jordan
• "Advanced Data Visualization with Flex" -- Thomas Gonzalez
• "Multi-touch Development with Flex" -- Andrew Trice

The other day I noticed on Lee Probert's blog that he bought himself a fancy new hex color from MyHexColor.com for the grand total of $1.

So I'm proud to say that I'm now the owner of the following four "halo" colors: haloBlue, haloGreen, haloOrange, and haloSilver.

I just noticed on the Adobe Flash Builder Labs page that Flash Builder 4 beta 2 is available for download; http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_flashbuilder4 (Release Notes)

Also, head on over to the Adobe Flex Developer Center and check out the following articles:

• What's new in Flash Builder 4 beta (updated for beta 2)
• What's new in Flex 4 beta (updated for beta 2)
• Five great new features in Flash Builder 4 beta

Got questions? Visit the Labs forum for Flash Builder 4. Found a bug (or have an enhancement request)? Visit the Flex Bug base. Also, don't forget about the Adobe Flex Cookbook (which has a growing number of Flex 4 beta posts). And finally, please go check out the excellent Flex 4 Beta 2 documentation; Flex 4 Beta 2 documentation live.