Over the last week or so I've been building my first project to make use of the AMFPHP alongside one of our server guys, have to say been pretty impressed with the ease at which it is to implement and the speed at which it runs. Couple of links -

Ajax and Flex Data Loading Benchmarks

Lee Brimlow has a couple of tutorials to get started over at GoToAndLearn

Few people have been mentioning Zend too - possibly about to be licensed by Adobe?

A handy little add on to force the minimum size of a flash object within your html, a great idea and feature to use in place of an inbuilt flash notification. SWF Force Size is a handly little add-on for SWFObject.

Thanks to John and his team, best year yet.

This is a solution to an problem I ran into yesterday. I was storing an array of selected answers, when I ran into an issue where I wanted to add and remove the answers as the user selected/ deselected them. So ok, I could have run a loop through all of the answers to see if they were selected when the user submitted their answers but hey - this was my take on it - and something that has a wider use for future projects. You can download the example I've setup here.

Just got hit about this in an email from Paddy...

Flex Camp London 08 is a FREE, community-run event for everyone interested in Adobe Flex! Whether you're just getting started with Flex or you're an expert, Flex Camp aims to provide something for you.

We've lined up some of the most experienced Flex developers in the UK who will share their knowledge on everything from creating your first application, connecting to data, creating components and development best practices through to selecting an application framework for larger projects.

Flex Camp will also include a panel discussion, provide an opportunity for you to show off what you're building in the Show & Tell open session and let you meet up with other developers to talk about Flex. We've also got some great prizes to give-away throughout the day, including a ticket to Adobe MAX in Milan, Adobe software and Flex training courses from Academy Class.

Flex Camp is on August 28th, 2-8pm at Conway Hall, London WC1 - register today at http://ria.meetup.com.