This book is for any Flex developer who has mastered the basics, but wants to take their skills to the top levelit is packed with essential practical techniques in use in a professional production environment, which you can learn from and use in your own Flex 2 or Flex 3 applications. Written by a team of expert developers from the Los Angeles-based Almer/Blank consultancy, the book takes you through exactly how they built the popular Rich Media X (RMX) application for Adobe user groups, step by step. Assuming the basics, they take you through planning the project, wireframing and application design, putting the basic structure together (including the PHP and MySQL backend,) customizing the look and feel of the application (to make it not just look like any other Flex application,) and implementing all the killer features that make the RMX great, such as blog, wiki, content aggregation from RSS and other sources, video, audio visualizer, events calendar, and advertising mechanisms.

* Learn how Rich Media X was built!
* A real-world Flex book, written by experts using the technology in their day-to-day work
* Contains all the killer features you need to build up your own web 2.0 Flex applicationblog, wiki, video, content aggregation, events calendar, and much more.

What youll learn

* How to effectively plan and wireframe a professional Flex application
* How to customize the look and feel of Flex 2 and Flex 3so that it doesn't look like Flex
* How to implement a server-side backend for a Flex application (in PHP and MySQL)
* Effective video techniques using the On2 codec
* The best way to implement several killer web 2.0 features in Flex, including a blog, wiki, events calendar, and more
* How to implement advertising on a Flex site using DoubleClick's DartMotif
* How to create an audio visualizer in Flex