Reading Beyond The Lines

The Flash Builder 4.5 release introduced many new features including several coding productivity features. And to help you be more productive with Flash Builder, we put together a Flash Builder Tips & Tricks article on Adobe Dev Center that contains several simple and effective tips and timesaving shortcuts.

Do check out the article, and please let us know if there are any other tips that you find useful and we may not have covered!

Straight off the press! – you can now download the public preview releases of the next versions of the Flex SDK, Flash Builder, and Flash Catalyst on Adobe Labs.

 The Flexteam Blog post describes the releases in good detail. But, here’s a quick list of links to various learning resources to help you get started:

 Intro articles written by the product managers 

• What’s New in Flash Builder “Burrito” – by Andrew Shorten
• What’s New in Flex SDK “Hero” – by Deepa Subramaniam
• Mobile Development Using Flex SDK “Hero” and Flash Builder “Burrito” – by Narciso Jaramillo
• What’s New in Flash Catalyst “Panini” – by Doug Winnie

 Samples, tutorials, and videos  

• Build Your First Mobile Flex App – Twitter Trends
• Flex Test Drive for Mobile – Build a mobile application in an hour
• Videos on some of the big new features
• Interesting sample apps

 Updated product documentation

• Using Flash Builder “Burrito”
• Using Flex “Hero”
• Developing Mobile Applications with Flex “Hero”
• ActionScript 3.0 Reference
• Adobe Flash Catalyst “Panini” documentation

 In the next few posts, I’ll be deep-diving into the features and their associated documentation. Until then, download the preview releases of all three products from Adobe Labs and get started!

It’s been just a few minutes since ColdFusion Builder, Flash Builder 4, and Flex 4 hit the market.

ColdFusion Builder – The new and highly customizable Eclipse™-based IDE that enables developers to build ColdFusion applications faster than ever before. It also allows developers to save time by managing the entire ColdFusion development cycle from concept to production with one easy-to-use tool. The integration between ColdFusion Builder and Flash Builder makes it fast and easy for ColdFusion developers to create Flex applications.

Flash Builder 4 – There are over 90 new features in this release, and you can use them with both Flex 3 and Flex 4 to gain big improvements in development time, integration and building more expressive apps.

Flex 4 – This release of Flex includes the new Spark skinning and component architecture enabling a new level of expressiveness in RIAs, in addition to supporting the new Flash Catalyst-to-Flash Builder workflow.

My next set of posts will be focusing on the ColdFusion Builder release and covering more details, so stay tuned!