Flex with Flash: A Video Playing Near You
The Flash Player is a vehicle for delivering both visually rich animations and information—and for bringing a desktop experience to users through rich Flex applications. Video is the most visually rich of all media types and is surprisingly easy to add to your Flex project. This article will show you how to add a prebuilt Flash video to your Flex application.

Using PHP and Flex to Browse a MySQL Database
PhpMyAdmin is a powerful, open source, graphical user interface to MySQL, the most popular freely available database application. This article explores how to replicate some of the phpMyAdmin functionality, using a combination of PHP and Flex to create an even more elegant application for browsing a database.

Introduction to the Flex 2 Product Line
With the release of Flex 2, Adobe delivers an impressive set of tools and technologies that enable developers to create powerful, scalable Web applications faster and easier than ever before. In this article we'll take a look at the main constituents of the Flex 2 development platform, including the Flex Framework and SDK 2, Flex Builder 2, Flash Player 9, and Flex Data Services 2.

Using Flex as a Cross-Browser Solution
The wide variety of available Web browsers is great for the end-user, but often not so great for developers. See how Flex, Flash, ActionScript, and Ajax work together to create a terrific cross-browser solution.

A Marriage Made in Developer Heaven
Adobe's "engagement platform" strategy to create an application platform, based on a universal client combining Reader, Flash, and HTML in a single, integrated runtime is one of several benefits for developers.

Getting Started with LiveCycle Designer, Part 2: Form into Function
Learn some simple JavaScript to make PDF forms more interactive and add a few more buttons to increase the functionality of your task status report.

Getting Started with LiveCycle Designer, Part 1: Creating a Simple PDF Form
Learn to create a weekly status report using an XML schema to describe the data and build the form for entering task status.

Beyond 'Post': Adobe Forms vs. InfoPath?
Make sense out of two forms-based technologies, Adobe's PDF-based forms software, and Microsoft's newly released InfoPath application.

Intro to Adobe's Tools and Platforms for Programming the Intelligent Document
Need a scorecard? Here's a rundown of the products that make Adobe's vision work—server software, dev tools, security, workflow, and more.

Intro to Adobe's Vision: The Document as Developer Platform
More than a pretty face, PDF documents now have brains. Adobe has created an entire ecology supporting its vision of the document (and the form) as enterprise developer platform. Should you be climbing on board?