I recently started looking into using PureMVC for our Flash projects at work. While the project site has plenty of great demos for one to download and examine, there aren’t enough tutorials out there that show step-by-step, how to start building an application using the framework. Fortunately, my friends over at 9M Media have put together an excellent series of articles on PureMVC to help get you started. Check it out for yourselves. (more…)

If you’re thinking of using Cairngorm in your Flex projects and would like a little help in getting started, David Tucker has prepared a great series of beginner tutorials on the subject.

In five lessons, Tucker leads the student from setting up the ModelLocator, Events, Commands and Controller classes, to using Business Delegates and Value Objects in the Service-to-Worker design pattern, finally ending with Best Practices. Each tutorial begins with some theory and explanations, then quickly segues to a hands-on video tutorial which demonstrates in great detail how all this is put together. (more…)

For a limited time, Total Training™ is offering 30 day access to over 17 hours of their Adobe Flex 2 online training titles, absolutely FREE. The 2 modules available are:

Total Training™ for Adobe® Flex 2: Rich Internet Applications
by James Talbot and

Total Training™ for Adobe® Flex 2: Advanced Visual Programming
by Leo Schuman.

The tutorials are presented at a brisk pace and provide a highly immersive experience as you follow along and learn to build your own applications. Highly recommended for Flash/Actionscript developers looking to learn Flex.