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Saw these on Darren Richardson’s blog.  The Design Inspiration Gallery and LogoPond.

I was out this weekend at a wedding and livin’ la vida loca so I didn’t see this until today.  FDT 3 beta has been released.

Also, Ryan Taylor has a tutorial on using Ant with FDT 3.

Jesse Warden has a nice little article on 10 tips for working with Cairngorm.  I personally break a lot of the “rules” because I’m a Cairngorm n00b, but my apps still work :P  I’ve also seen a lot of other developers break these, so as you’re reading this, you’ll see he has some tips broken down into A/B/C versions.  I don’t think there is a right and wrong way to code with Cairngorm, just whatever gets the job done in my honest opinion.  And he’s definitely right about using 3 classes in Cairngorm to do something that could take only one line of code otherwise.  I’ve battled with why I’d use Cairngorm because of this very reason, and honestly in personal projects I don’t because of it.  I usually only use Cairngorm when I’m forced to in a team environment like at work.

Flash Bookmarks is an awesome resource that I just found out about through Franto’s blog.  There is a TON of information there and it’s updated daily.

This blog has Flex examples in every post.  I’m not into Flex yet, but I’m sure it’ll be handy for anyone that is.

Pretty cool; Solitaire in AJAX.  There were a couple of times when the cards didn’t turn for me until I clicked on them and the statistics page didn’t work after I beat the game (on my first try, mind you!), but still pretty damn neat.

Classic.  Thanks Vic.

Here’s a short tutorial on how to build an FLV player in AIR using Flex 3.

This is a crazy video on a software app (which I can’t figure out the name of) that shows how you can “retarget” an image to scale/fit a screen without pixelation. You can also erase stuff out of the image and it uses the same technique to replace that object in the image with new pixels that it draws based on an algorithm that takes pixels of surrounding areas and recalculates them. From the video, this is VERY impressive, but you can’t see a close-up view and you can’t see how it works on images of your own so who knows. Typically stuff like this is exciting until you start to play with it and realize that it only works on the demo images they showed to sell the product, but nevertheless, if this is possible on all images, this is amazing new technology. Thanks Aaron.

I just didn’t want to make the topic really long, but this is a follow up to the 22 AS3 APIs post by Sean Moore and it is a list of 31 Flex APIs, libraries, components, and tools.