Learning Flex means tackling a number of other technologies - server-side scripting / programming, some OO, CSS, XML etc. Matt Chotin is asking what non-Flex resources helped you learn this in order to grasp Flex's programming nuances. If you are a Flex developer these days but had to go through that broader learning curve, comment on his blog post with specific recommendations for books, blogs, websites etc that helped you.

New Atlanta's BlueDragon project has never supported Flash Remoting but with the advent of BlazeDS being open sourced by Adobe, TagServlet's OpenBD project has been able to take advantage of the synergy of open source to offer both HTTPService and RemoteObject invocation of CFCs from Flash/Flex. Watch Matt Woodward's screencast showing how to set up and run Flash Remoting with Open BlueDragon.

If you are attending one of the four two-hour hands-on workshops at cf.Objective() 2008, you will want to read this so that you can have your laptop prepared in advance: Workshop Prequisites for cf.Objective() 2008 This document will continue to be updated between now and the conference but this should help you get ready for your workshop session.

I was chatting with a few folks today and it seems the Flex frameworks space is heating up these days. Cairngorm is, of course, the incumbent, but there are a number of other frameworks out there and more on the way. cf.Objective() already has three sessions on Flex frameworks: Mate - Laura Arguello Cairngorm for ColdFusion Developers - Brian Rinaldi Flex: No Frameworks Required - Maxim Porges Two other Flex framework authors are also speaking at cf.