Total Training's Adobe Flex 2 Rich Internet Applications

This has been mentioned on several blogs already, but I will add my endorsement anyway. If you're like me and don't have a week or the money to spend on a dedicated Flex training class, there is another way to get visual hands-on Flex training.

Ben Forta mentioned this product on his blog a couple months ago, and I bought it ten minutes later. I am just getting around to watching it, and it is worth every penny of the $150 price tag.

Total Training for Adobe Flex 2 Rich Internet Applications is a 8 hour DVD training video hosted by Adobe trainer/evangelist James Talbot, that is really the best video training I have ever experienced. Talbot is very engaging as walks you through multiple lessons that deal with all aspects of Flex development best practices using Adobe's FlexBuilder 2. It's got a nice bookmark feature that will allow you to return to mulitple areas for further review.

A word of caution for ColdFusion developers: while there is plenty of content regarding data access using XML and web services, the examples are platform agnostic. You won't find examples for hooking up to a CF server and pulling data from your MS SQL/MySQL database, for instance.

If you don't have FlexBuilder yet, you can easily download a 30-day evaluation copy.

Highly recommended.