Read on to find out how much we gave in Q3 2008, and to see the list of authors for this quarter!

* Benetech: Creates new technology solutions that serve humanity and empower people to improve their lives. Amount given: $1320

* Nature Conservancy: Works around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people. Amount given: $1220

* Mercy Corp: Alleviates suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities. Amount given: $1020

* Care: Fights global poverty by serving individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Amount given: $1320

* America's Second Harvest Network: Is the nation's largest charitable hunger-relief organization. Amount given: $1320

The authors who participated in this program from June 1, 2008 - August 31, 2008 are:

o Sheri German
o Paulo Caroli
o Ayo Binitie
o Louie Penaflor
o Jonathan Tabak
o Jim Babbage
o Nick Myers
o DryIcons
o Tom Green
o Kumar Vivek
o John Wylie
o Samir Dash
o David Tucker
o Bill Bejeck
o Sean Moore
o Henrik Lindahl
o Sebastien Arbogast
o Zee Yang

Thank you, authors, for your contributions to the ADC!

Edward Sullivan
Product Manager
Adobe Developer Connection

1. Bug Base Notifications - This module lets you find and track bugs in the Adobe public bug base at bugs.adobe.com.
2. Component Explorer - This module aggregates components for Flex that support an appcasting RSS feed.
3. RSS Reader - This RSS reader comes with a number of default feeds to help you surface information about developing with Adobe technologies. You can add or remove any feeds you want to.
4. Adobe User Groups & Events - This module is a handy mashup that allows you to locate Adobe user groups and upcoming events.

You can download the ADC Developer Desktop for free in the AIR Marketplace. Please help us improve the ADC Desktop - we'd love to hear from you. Feel free to provide any comments below, or press the feedback icon inside the application and tell us what you think about ADC Developer Desktop, plus any bugs you see or feature requests.

The annual Adobe MAX Awards recognizes the best-of-the-best uses of Adobe software for creating engaging experiences. Don't miss this chance to showcase your work in front of industry and technology leaders from around the world at MAX 2008.

Nominate your project in any of six categories: advertising and branding, enterprise, mobility and devices, public sector, RIA, and video -- and enter for a chance to win a prestigious MAX Award. Enter your submission today or nominate a colleague's project for consideration.

The deadline to nominate a project is Monday, August 25, 2008. The deadline to submit your own project is Friday, September 5, 2008. Winners will be announced live at Adobe MAX North America this November in San Francisco. Winners may also be recognized at each of the three international MAX conferences with the coveted People's Choice Award.

Please go to the 2008 MAX Awards site to review the official rules and award details.

Oh, and you can also check out all the session content for MAX 2008.

If you have a solution related to building on AIR, be sure to post it to the AIR cookbook for a chance to have your solution appear in the upcoming Adobe AIR Cookbook. The book will be written and compiled by David Tucker, Marco Casario, Rich Tretola, and Koen De Weggheleire and published by O’Reilly Media. All posts will receive equal consideration.

For information on the online AIR cookbook, go to the AIR Developer Center; for more infor on the upcoming O'Reilly AIR Cookbook, check out David Tucker's blog.

Check out Part 1 now and keep tuned on the rest of the series.

Read on to find out how much we gave in Q2 2008, and to see the list of authors for this quarter!

Today, the ADC team added a new Getting Started panel to the ADC home page. This panel, located just above the Features panel, streamlines your path to beginner product tutorials and documentation in the developer product centers. It also points you to introductions to the top project types that people are designing and developing with Adobe technologies.

Check out the new panel, and let us know (in comments) if there are other resources or paths you'd like to see included. Enjoy!

The authors, Josh Noble and Todd Anderson selected recipes from the live Adobe Flex cookbook site to add to the print copy. Thank you to all of our contributors for your contributions to the site. Keep sharing your recipes, feel the thrill of helping fellow developers and you could end up in a future version of the print cookbook!

As well, today, we released a re-skinned version of the Flex Cookbook site at http://www.adobe.com/go/flex_cookbook. With this release, we created a wider format Flex cookbook, improving the readability of code within cookbook recipes and in the composing recipe page. We hope you enjoy it!

A new community-powered search is the first enhancement. The community powered search is designed to help people find the best answer to their question, no matter where the answer may reside. If the best answer is on someone’s blog in the community, that’s the answer we want to help people find. This will not replace the existing search on adobe.com, but will be available as a new beta search. There is a team of Flex advisors who are adding URLs/domains to this search on an ongoing basis.

We have also added the ability for users to add comments to Flex Developer Center content. As most of you know, we’ve had commenting on Adobe Livedocs for a while. This is the next generation of commenting, in that the commenting functionality across these two different places is integrated. The intent of commenting is to gather feedback and deliver the best possible content; by integrating the commenting, and who reviews and acts on those comments we can strive to be as consistent as possible across content on adobe.com. Again, there is a team of Flex advisors moderating comments, and Hong Qiu and I will be moderating the Flex Developer Center comments. Note that all posted comments go live immediately, however, where there is inappropriate content, the moderators will scrub as needed. The coolest part is that authors can monitor comments on their articles by subscribing to the RSS feed (see link below) for Flex Developer Center.

You can see both of these enhancements on the Flex Developer Center: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/. To find the new features:
• Flex community-powered search: Look in the right-nav in the Flex DC, and you will see the “Search Community-Powered Help” form field.
• Commenting: Browse to any article in the Flex Developer Center, and you will see the option to add your comment.
• Subscribe to the RSS feed for comments for the Flex Developer Center and see all comments, anytime: http://community.adobe.com/ion/rss/comments.html?label=flex_product_adobelr&language=en_US

We encourage you to try these new enhancements and send any feedback. The search results page that gets returned will have a link to a feedback survey at the top right of the page.

Happy searching and commenting!

Amy Wong
Adobe
Developer Relations
Manager, Content community and applications