UsefulConcept

I need to build a little library here thus in the market for some new books / resources.  I would love your recommendations for the following:

Flex 2 (or should I wait for 3 before buying book?)

Actionscript 3

OO Basic Principles / Advanced (not needing to be cf specific but CF would be great).  It would be great if it would cover the concept of beans, singletons, DI, ORM, AOP, etc.  Maybe I need a few books here?  I have no books on this subject now, and get all my knowledge from blogs and articles online.

Speaking of which it's always handy to have a list of blog posts as well for reference.  Perhaps that is good for CF Based descriptions of AOP, Beans, etc.  

As a note, I have plenty of CF books (been a while since I bought them and I still have 4.0 books around!) , but if you want to recommend them that may be good for others stumbling onto this post.

I will start with the following... (and add your suggestions to this master list)

Books:

Programming ColdFusion MX by Rob Brooks-Bilson (o'Reilly) - I don't think he has a 7.x version, but the 6.1 version is quite good and my staff have used it quite a bit in coming up to speed on CF.

For specific blog posts:

Peter Bell has a wealth of conceptual / philosophical information.  Most is not for beginners, but here are a couple.

• XML Schema
• OO 101

Ray Camden is a machine at posting code examples and handy OS projects.

• CFC Resources
• Scopes Reference Guide

Andy Jarrett another useful CF focused (mostly) blog and Friday Jokes.

• ColdSpring DI for Beginners

Brian Rinaldi offers much to the OS community including great reviews and overviews.

• Starting with Transfer ORM
• Open Source Weekly Update
• Just do it
• Brians list of OO resources from last year
• Frameworks including AOP, ORM, loC and DI

These are just useful resources for research:

For CF Aggregators:

• feed-squirrel
• fullasagoog.com and
• mxna are all great aggregators. 

CF Search Engines:

•  List of them all

Video Presentations/Tutorials:

• UGTV

Clearly this blog list is only a quick start.  I need to jump into a conf call but will put more time into it later this weekend.  Please add comments to expand on this.  I am specifically looking for learning type of posts, both beginner and advanced as well as resources.  This way I can send future employees / friends, etc. or have it for my own (our own) quick reference).

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