We're about to start some pretty big projects for some great clients and best of all they are going to be Flex 2/Flash 9. It's nice to have clients that want to use the latest and greatest just because they are. They scary part is that we have a lot to learn in short period of time, so I thought I would share what we're doing to ramp up for the challenge. Mainly there's a lot of reading. Here's a few titles that are already available at your book store that are always worth the cover price.

• ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook:
  Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers
• Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move!

As usual not all the classics are out yet, mainly Colin Moock's book. But there is a ray of hope and a way to get it before it comes out. O'Reilly has this new feature called 'Rough Cuts' that allows you to get PDF versions of upcoming releases well before they come out. Go to www.oreilly.com, search for the following titles and buy the Rough Cuts. It costs $9.99 to start which gets you the PDF of the book in it's current iteration. When it comes out you get charged the remaining price of the book and it ships to you. The best part is that you can give feedback to the authors and potentially help shape the final outcome of the book. Here's the one's that I got:

• ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns
• Essential ActionScript 3.0
• Programming Flex 2.0

There are also a fair amount of sites that have great information, but here is one that I found particularly interesting that a co-worker sent to me. http://actionscriptcheatsheet.com/blog/quick-referencecheatsheet -for-actionscript-20/

This is also a good resource by Adobe:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/migration.html

As we get more into the development of our projects I'll post more about our experiences, sample code and eventually the sites themselves.

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