For all those unemployed and  Rif'd from jobs, there is ray of hope. Adobe has been offering free RIA tools to polishup your RIA skills. I think this is a great gesture by Adobe to offer free tools and free books.

Visit the following link and down load the Flex tool all for free.

https://freeriatools.adobe.com/

You can download Getting Started with Flex 3 at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/pdfs/getting_started_with_Flex3.pdf

Happy Flexing,