The Flex Community
The Flex community is made up of a number of talented developers just like you. You can get involved with user groups in North America and throughout the world, find out how to chat and interact with other Flex developers, download related software, listen to the Flex podcast, file bugs for Flex, see a list of Flex consultants and get information on performance testing for Flex.
User Groups
North American User Groups
Start a Flex user group in your area by filling out this form or contact Ed Sullivan for more information.
User Groups outside North America
Australia - Australia Flex User Group
Bangladesh - Bangladesh Flex User Group
Bulgaria - Bulgarian Adobe Flex User Group (Sofia)
China - FlexCoders in China
China - RIA Meeting (Beijing)
China - Guangzhou Flex User Group
Croatia - Zagreb Adobe Flex User Group (Sesvete)
Czech Republic - Czech Republic Adobe Flex User Group
France - French Adobe Flex User Group
France - Paris, France Adobe Flex User Group
France - Paris, French Adobe Flex User Group
Germany - Flex User Group in Germany
Germany - Hamburg Adobe Flex User Group
Germany - Adobe Flex User Group Rhein-Main (Wiesbaden)
Hong Kong - Hong Kong Flex and AIR User Group
India - Bangalore Flex User Group
India - Bombay Flex Coders
India - Chennai Flex User Group
India - Flex user group in India
India - Hyderabad Flex User Group
Italy - Italian Flex User Group
Italy - Italian Flex User Group (ActionScript)
Japan - Tokyo Flex User Group
Korea - Korea Flex User Group
Malaysia - Malaysia Flex User Group
Mexico - Mexico Flex User Group
Netherlands - Netherlands Adobe Flex User Group
New Zealand - New Zealand Adobe Flex User Group
Poland - Polish Adobe Flex User Group
Portugal - Portugal Adobe Flex User Group (Lisbon)
Romania - Adobe Flex User Group Romania(Galati)
Singapore - Singapore Flex User Group
Spain - Spanish Flex User Group
Thailand - Thai Adobe Flex User Group
Turkey - Turkish Adobe Flex User Group
United Kingdom - London Adobe Flex User Group
United Kingdom - Flex User Group UK
Start a Flex user group in your area by filling out this form.
Interact With Others
Flex Blogs
Stay up to date with the latest Flex related content at the Adobe XML News Aggregator.
Flex Camp
Flex Camp is set of evening events where developers come and learn more about Flex. Check out the Flex Camp page and find Flex Camps in your area, or host your own.
Flex Developer Chat
Made available by the talented team at SearchCoders.com
.Flex Community Experts
The Adobe Community Experts Program is a community based program made up of Adobe customers who share their product expertise with the world-wide Adobe community. You can find a Flex community expert online.
Flex Cookbook
Exchange Flex tips and tricks with other users using the Flex cookbook.
Flex Events
Check out this list of Flex events where you can see Flex in person and meet members of the Flex team live, or this list of Flex Camps.
Flex Forums
FlexCoders.ru - A site for Flex developers in Russia.
FlashForum.de - A site for Flash and Flex developers in Germany.
FlexForum.de - A site for Flex developers in Germany.
Flex Jobs
The Naugle Group can help find developers for your RIA projects or find jobs for you as an RIA developer.
Flex Mailing Lists
FlexCoders at Yahoo - The largest Flex mailing list, with over 6,000 subscribers.
Flex Components at Yahoo - The mailing list for developers who are building Flex components.
Flex Indonesia at Yahoo - A mailing list for Flex developers in Indonesia.
ColdFusion FlexCoders at House of Fusion - The mailing list for ColdFusion developers who are building applications with Flex.
Java FlexCoders at Yahoo - A mailing list targetted at Java users who are building applications with Flex.
PHP FlexCoders at Google - A mailing list for PHP developers who are building applications with Flex.
Ruby on Rails FlexCoders at Google - A mailing list for Ruby on Rails developers who are buidling applications with Flex.
The Flex Podcast
A bi-weekly Podcast from Ryan Stewart and Jeffry Houser discussing all things Flex related. Open source podcast player created by Axel Jensen, a certified ColdFusion and Flex developer.
Software
Flex Components
You can find free and non-free components that you can use in your Flex applications on the Flex.org Components page or in the Flex Component Exchange.
If you're interested in building out components for Flex, you can join the Flex Components email list at Yahoo.
Flex Themes
Scalenine has a number of themes available for Flex and AIR applications.
Open Source Projects
Get involved in a number of open source projects related to Flex 2 and ActionScript 3. Here's a partial list:
Cairngorm Microarchitecture - A lightweight framework for rich Internet application (RIA) development.
Core ActionScript 3 Library (required by some of the other open source libraries)
Flexapps - A collection of open source Flex applications.
FlexLib - An open source Flex component library.
RSS / Atom ActionScript 3 Library
YouTube ActionScript 3 Library
There are a number of other open source ActionScript and Flex projects available on Google Code. You may also find others at RIAForge.org and OSFlash.
Other Software
Flextense is an application that automatically creates the ActionScript proxy classes for accessing web services.
Salesforce.com
The new Flex Toolkit for Apex allows you to add dynamic graphical interfaces to your Salesforce.com Apex applications. The Flex Toolkit for Apex is free and available through the Apex Developer Network, check out this article for details on how to build Flex powered Salesforce.com apps.
Testing Software
WebLOAD from RadView offers a professional load testing solution for Adobe Flex Applications. The WebLOAD Add-On for Adobe Flex 2 enables users to record, edit, parameterize and load test Flex-based applications, including simulating the effects of real user load on application services running within the Flex environment.