Watch the interview here:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1564561905/bclid1564555900/bctid1564557060

topics covered include:

-garbage collecting loaded .swf files

-ecmascript4: is it too much?
-future of the web client ecosystem
-life as a player engineer

-history of flash player’s internals

-macromedia and adobe culture

-flash player engineering process

-politics of the web
-future player features

-jon gay’s vector renderer

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) combine the flexibility of desktop applications with the broad reach of the web. RIAs are interactive and engaging, combining an online and off-line experience. To prepare students with the right skills for this new realm of application development that impacts interactivity and visual design and connects designers and developers more closely, institutions must plan courses and course content. Working with faculty from higher education institutions, we’ve put together resources for teaching RIA design and development across a variety of courses, such as Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, and Introduction to Computer Programming.

http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/teach/ria.html

Here you can find a lot of info about ARIA and it seems easy and quick to develop.

http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/misc/ARIA/atmedia2008/

MyFlex.org is a new intersting set of tools for Flex.
All  blue-chip software producers have at least one thing in common – a vibrant community of independent developers, some of which become vendors of  components or tools that greatly enrich the main product. MyFlex.org is built  for independent software vendors who are creating free or commercial components for Adobe Flex 2. MyFlex.org has been created by an independent software vendor  Farata Systems, which is also a contributor of the first commercial plugins for Flex Builder.

For more info www.myflex.org.

Mango Blog is an extensible blog engine released under the Apache license, built with ColdFusion. It provides the core engine to administer and publish entries and the necessary architecture to extend its basic functionality by adding plugins. Mango Blog can be easily customized by the use of exchangeable and completely customizable skins.

For info and download the new release chech this link.

SitePoint is giving away two copies of Adobe CS3 Web Premium (kindly donated by Adobe) to the authors of the best articles about Adobe Flex and AIR submitted over the next four weeks.

For more information check this link http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/04/08/write-for-sitepoint-and-win-the-adobe-cs3-web-premium-suite/

Surfing the web I found this itneresting article http://www.insidecrm.com/features/101-web-site-fixes-031808/.
The article outilines 101 easy to implment techniques you need to use in order to improve the performance of your web site.

MXUnit.org (http://mxunit.org/) is proud to announce the first release candidate of Unit Test
Framework *and* Eclipse Plugin for ColdFusion Developers.

Features include a simple-to-use extensible framework that allows
developers to spend more time writing tests and code than getting
distracted by frameworks details. The MXUnit Eclipse Plugin further
facilitates test creation by integrating running and debugging of tests
within the Eclipse IDE.

There are tons of design patterns, the common patterns used in a Flex application are:

- Singleton
- Command
- Mediator
- MVC
- Observer
- Value Object

The following links are useful resource and framework in order to start to implment in the right way the design patterns listed above:
http://osflash.org/projects/arp
http://www.serverbox.com/foundry
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/blueprint_print.html
http://www.model-glue.com/flex.cfm
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Cairngorm
http://www.puremvc.org/

When debugging network programming code the use of a data inspector (packet sniffing tools) is invaluable.
These are the tools we use during the development of our RIA:

ServiceCapture
ServiceCapture runs on your pc and captures all HTTP traffic sent from your browser or IDE. It is designed to help Rich Internet Application(RIA) developers in the debugging, analysis, and testing of their applications.
http://kevinlangdon.com/serviceCapture/

Charles
Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP traffic between their web browser and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information). View SSL communication in plain text. HTTP/1.1 support.
http://www.xk72.com/charles/

Wireshark
Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.
http://www.wireshark.org/

Fiddler
Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.
http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/