Developer Center super update
In addition to the release of Flex 2, Flex Builder 2, Flash Player 9, Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview, and everything else, the Developer Center managed to publish oodles of articles. So if you've already downloaded the trial software, and want to know where to start, read on....
Sneak previews and announcements:
- Announcing the Flex Developer Derby winners by Adobe
- Exploring the Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview by Jen deHaan and Peter deHaan
- Sneak peek: Upcoming cookbook area for Flex developers by Craig Goodman
- In Labs: Cairngorm for Flex 2 by Steven Webster and Alistair McLeod
Flash Player 9 and ActionScript 3.0:
- Introducing Adobe Flash Player 9 by Emmy Huang
- ActionScript 3.0 overview by Emmy Huang and Gary Grossman
- Tips for learning ActionScript 3.0 by Emmy Huang
- Building an image-viewing widget with ActionScript 3.0 by Colin Moock
- Experiencing the Flash Player Express Install by Waleed Anbar
Flex 2:
- Designing Flex 2 skins with Flash, Photoshop, or Fireworks by Narciso Jaramillo
- Flex 2: Enabling the next generation of rich Internet applications by David Wadhwani
- Introduction to the Flex Message Service by Sean Neville/Seth Hodgson
- Refactoring Flex applications from RPC-style data management to Data Management Services by James Ward
- Using RPC services in Flex Data Services 2 by Peter Farland
- Architecting RIAs with Flex Data Management Services by Jeff Vroom
- Welcome to ColdFusion-powered Flex by Ben Forta
- Using ColdFusion with Flex – Part 1: Creating and running a Contact Manager application by Tom Jordahl
- Using ColdFusion with Flex – Part 2: Creating and running a CRM application by Tom Jordahl
- Using ColdFusion with Flex – Part 3: Creating and running a phone selector by Ben Forta
- Using ColdFusion with Flex – Part 4: Creating and running a session tracker by Ben Forta
- Moving data from ColdFusion CFCs to Flex 2 applications by Kyle Quevillon
- Introducing Ajax Client for Flex Data Services 2 by Phil Costa
- Integrating Flex 2 and PHP by Mike Potter
- Using Flex 2 and AMFPHP by Mike Potter
- [PDF] Flex 2 Technical white paper by Adobe
But wait, there's more:
In addition to all the new content, there are also a few new additions and changes to the Developer Center...
- Flex 2:
- Redesigned Flex Developer Center
- New tab design emphasizes Samples, Quick Starts, Downloads, and Articles
- New Flex topic pages for the Flex 2 product line
- 16 New articles and tutorials (see list above)
- Redesigned Flex 2 sample applications area
- 7 New sample apps from the Adobe engineering team (contain View Source functionality)
- 6 New sample apps from Flex Developer Derby winners
- New Flex Quick Starts area
- 12 new Quick Starts provide concise lessons on Flex fundamentals and get users coding the most common Flex tasks
- Contain right-click View Source functionality for all SWF files
- Contain context-sensitive color coding for MXML code snippets
- New page format helps readers grasp basic Flex concepts
- New Downloads area
- Explains all of the trial/buy options for Flex 2 SDK, Flex Builder 2, Charting, Flex Data Services 2, and ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 before the customer goes to the login for try/buy
- Lists all of the related software in Labs for Flex 2
- Flash Player 9 and ActionScript 3.0: