Last night I gave a presentation to a group of about 40 web developers/designers in Victoria, British Columbia. I promised you all a link dump of the sites I visited so here it is…

Samples of Rich Internet Applications developed with Flex:

• Buzzword
• Picnik
• Scrapblog

Flex Resources at the Adobe website:

• Flex Builder
• Flex 2 Software Development Kit
• Flex Labs
• Flex Module for Apache and IIS

A good way to keep up on Flex and AIR related topics:

• MXNA AIR
• MXNA Flex
• MXNA ActionScript

During the session we created a Flex application that grabbed my favorite Flickr Images, and placed them into a Display Shelf component. We published the code as a Flex application and an AIR application. You can download the source code for both projects as well as my presentation slides in this zip package. Here are a couple of links to the Flickr API you might find useful if you decide to modify my source:

• Your favorite photos on Flickr
• Flickr Services

I hope you enjoyed the presentation as much as I enjoyed presenting! Thanks again for showing up!

Well I’ve got a well earned 10 days off coming up and after I paint by boy’s playroom, I’m gonna give this how-to a try. MythTV w/PVR-150 Setup on Ubuntu Linux Breezy Badger (5.10) will show you how to create a PVR using nothing but open-source software (an an old PC with a tv-tuner card)!