Written by a team of expert developers from the Los Angeles-based Almer/Blank consultancy, this book takes Flex developers who have mastered the basics but want to take their skills to the top level, through how they built the popular Rich Media X application for Adobe user groups, step by step.

Adobe's Flex (currently in version 2 with version 3 following at the end of the year) is one of today's hottest technologies for building web applications, and this unique book provides a practical guide to planning and building a professional Flex application from start to finish (the application is Rich Media X, a popular Adobe user group community/social networking site.) Written by some of the world's foremost Flex experts, AdvancED Flex Application Development provides step-by-step instructions to implementing all the most essential web 2.0 application features. It is one of the first professional level Flex books available, and one of the first to feature PHP/MySQL integration with Flex, a very sought after skill. It will also be one of the first books available to support Flex 3.

1 Introduction to Flex Applications 2 Planning the application: Introducing the RMX 3 Wireframing 4 Preparing to get to Work 5 Styling Flex 6 Collecting and Working with Content 7 Key Navigation 8 Syndicating, Accessing, and Aggregating Content 9 User Communications 10 Working with Video 11 Advertising 12 Building the Blog 13 Building the Jobs Board 14 Building the Wiki 15 Building the Event Calendar 16 Ideas for the Future 17 Splitting your Flex App 18 DoubleClick's DartMotif 19 Working with On2 Publisher 20 Vbulletin ImpEx 21 Building an Audio Visualizer in Flex