These are my personal bookmarks on various Adobe Flash Resources, tools, and e-learning.

3D Libraries

• Alternativa3d
  • Tutorials and Resources
• Away3D
• Papervision3D
  • Smashing Magazine: Best Design Practices and Tutorials
  • Foundational Papervision 3D at Inside RIA
  • MadVertices — Papervision 3D Tutorials
  • Papervision Tuts
  • Professional Papervision
• Sandy 3D Engine
• Five3D

3D and Animation Software

• FreeSpin3D – This is an extension for Flash CS3/CS4, it can import 3D objects at design time in the Flash IDE. It also has a AS3 API.
• Swift3D (Electric Rain) Vector and Raster 3D Creation – Supports export for Papervision 3D compatibility since v. 5
  • Screencast for Swift3D and Papervision3D
• ToonBoom (Animation) includes Animate! (for professionals), Studio (for hobbists), Flipboom (for kids)

Actionscript Code Snippets

• Adobe Cookbooks
• http://wonderfl.net

Actionscript Libraries

• CasaLib (Open source) Has AS2 and AS3 versions. I used this library for loading fonts in AS2 at runtime. It saved my life!
• Greensock Probably one of my favorite Actionscript Tween libraries
• GSkinner.com Canadian Flash guru’s libraries. Includes GTween, Performance Test, Throttler…
• SWFAddress The authority on SEO for flash-based site development. (The Gaia framework uses this.)

Books

• Friends of ED
• O’Reilly
  • Inside RIA

Flash Builder (previously Flex) Resources

• James Whittaker’s Flash Builder Resources

Flash Media Server

• Adobe Flash Communication User Group

Flash Detection

• Flash Detection
• SWFObject 2

Firefox Plug-ins

• Flash switcher Plugin
• Flash tracer Plugin

FrameWorks

• ASUnit (Unit-test framework)
• Cairngorm
• Actionscript 3 Designer Toolkit
• Gaia
• Hype
• Open Source Media Framework Facilitates development of video applications via this framework
• PureMVC
• SpiceFactory (by Powerflasher makers of FDT)
• TextLayout Framework (in Beta @ Adobe labs)

Magazines

• Flash & Flex Developers Magazine (Great magazine for the Flash developer community, and now a monthly online publication.)
• Flex Authority (Flash Builder Professional Tech Journal)
• WebDesigner (UK Web Design Magazine – This is a good mag for flash designers and trends in the web design industry.)
• Net (UK Web design magaine which is not related to Microsoft .Net)

Open Source

• Open Source Flash

Particle AS3 Libraries

• Flint (Ryan Hodson’s Overview)
• Partigen

Pixel Bender

• Corey von Birnbaum‘s crossing over to program in the Pixel Bender Shader language.

Presentations

• Grant Skinner‘s Presentation notes; I must say that this is worthwhile to go through; Particularly the notes on “What every Flash Developer should know.”
• Grant Skinner Libraries: He plans to put this up on Google code.

SCORM

• SCORM School at academiccolab
  Online tutorials / courses on SCORM development