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Somewhat irrelevant news: Please excuse my absence. I decided to take a long break, since I experienced some complications and my son was delivered a month earlier than he was due. This post was scheduled for editing and posting on March 26.
With a magic little button, I managed to connect to the FMS. Then I [...]

The best resources I found, in a variety of media:
Books
These were the top 3 books recommended over and over again by the Usenet groups I follow.

Programming Flex 3: The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex [link]

Essential ActionScript 3.0 [link]

Programming Flash Communication Server [link]

Web
Documentation
If you have a project already in mind and [...]

Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide.

The second annual survey by A List Apart seeks information about the people behind [...]

Something Gorgeous
I have trouble creating beautiful designs, but no trouble identifying them. For anyone else in this same boat, here are some tools and ideas to help create respectable work, design already included:

Obsidian Dawn: beautiful PhotoShop brushes, to add a graceful artistic element to any print or web work.
Mad Mimi: prettier e-mail campaigns, with a [...]

Today is also a non-technical day, filled with well-written white papers. Grasp the finer details of web development issues, from a business-oriented standpoint:

Short version of The Beekeeper – a gentle and intelligent introduction to open source and how it fits into business. James Dixon quashes misconceptions surrounding open source and illuminating the potential in the [...]