Free Themes for Flex

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ScaleNine (cool site name by the way) is offering free, high-quality Themes for your Flex 2 apps. There are currently 6 themes in the collection with more coming in the near future. Update: after quite a while I went back to take a look at how actively new skins and themes for Flex 2 are being added and happily I can report that dozens and dozens of absolutely gorgeous and interesting themes are now available on the site.

There is even a provision for  learning how to create your own skins for Flex and AIR right on the sidebar that I think a lot of developers will have an interest in. But again, it will be a long time before you exhaust the possibilities for teriffic themes already available to you on the site. Adobe Flex Builder

Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book

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If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to learn Ruby on Rails, I would suggest reading Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book. It is a great online introduction to the Ruby programming language and will definitely give you a kickstart while learning the Rails framework. I know that learning Ruby on Rails has completely changed my professional profile; there is so much demand for RoR  developers that it has given me a heightened sense of confidence, knowing that I can go after jobs that actually excite me. There are so many resources on the Web for learning Ruby on Rails than any programmer with even a little bit of extra time should learn this technology, which is so rapidly being adopted now.