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This Week’s Top Posts (11/26)

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, AIR, and Text Layout Framework teams:

Alex’s Flex Closet (Alex Harui): Faster DataGrid Horizontal Scrolling
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Adobe Groups Launched!
Adobe Developer Connection: Meet Adobe Groups
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 3rd Party Components into Tour De Flex
Matt Chotin: Judging the Ribbit Killer App Challenge
Flex Team blog: Zend Releases Zend Framework 1.7 with AMF Support
Sujit Reddy G – The Evangelist: Measuring message processing performance
Text Layout Framework Team blog: Welcome to the Text Layout Framework Team Blog
Text Layout Framework Team blog: Embedded Font Subsetting Using DefineFont4
AIR Team blog: Google Maps API for Flash now supports Adobe AIR
AIR Team blog: Ext JS announces enhanced support for Adobe AIR
AIR Team blog: Building Desktop Applications Powered by Dojo and Adobe AIR
AIR Team blog: Application mashups on Adobe AIR
James Ward – RIA Cowboy: Using Adobe AIR and Flex to Make Your Apps *Bling*
Flex Builder Tech Note: Installing in a non-default directory may result in lost data (Flex Builder 3.0.2 on Mac)

And from our friends on the Flash Authoring, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams:

Flashthusiast (Jen deHaan): Lists of keyboard modifiers in the Flash CS4 motion model – lets you do more stuff
Daniel Dura: Another TwitterCamp Update
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Download Tour de Flex right now!
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flash and Flex Project Builder application
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): New tutorial on customizing Flex Builder
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Win $100,000 doing Flash development!

Finally, a bunch of post-MAX wrap-ups, and session notes/files:

Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): MAX 2008 NA Session Recording
Adobe MAX Blog: MAX 2008 NA Session Recording
AIR Team blog: MAX Session: Maintain Security With Adobe AIR
AIR Team blog: Oliver Goldman’s “High Performance AIR Applications” MAX 2008 slides now available
Kevin Hoyt: MAX 2008 Review and Content
James Ward – RIA Cowboy: Duane’s World: Road to MAX 2008 Europe with James Ward
Adobe MAX Blog: Duane’s World: Road to MAX 2008 Europe with James Ward
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): The MSRIT Mojo – Flex Bootcamp [Day 1] and The MSRIT Mojo – Flex Bootcamp [Day 2]

New ActionScript blog – http://actionscriptexamples.com/

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

I started another new blog (actionscriptexamples.com/) a few months ago, but have been holding off on posting the URL until I got some content posted. Well, content has gone a lot slower than planned, but I think I finally have enough entries where the site may be useful to somebody out there.

The ActionScript Examples blog mainly focuses on ActionScript 3.0 solutions in the Flash Authoring IDE (Flash CS3 and CS4 specifically). My Flex SDK and Flex Builder specific examples will continue to be posted on blog.flexexamples.com. There are also a few interesting examples of using the Flex SDK compiler in Flash CS4 though, so there will definitely be a bit of overlap between the two blogs.

And since I love using unordered lists, here’s what I’ve posted about in the past nine months since I first set up the blog:

For lots of information about using the new Motion Editor features in Flash CS4, check out Jen deHaan’s blog, Flashthusiast, and for more information on Flash+Flex integration from Tareq AlJaber on the Adobe Flash Authoring team, check out his blog at http://flashauthoring.blogspot.com/.

This Four Weeks in Flex Examples (11/21)

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

Here is what I have been blogging about over the past month on my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

I have to say, the list of Flex Gumbo examples is growing quite nicely!

This Week’s Top Posts (11/21)

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, AIR, Text Layout Framework, Flash Player, and LCDS/BlazeDS teams:

James Ward – RIA Cowboy: Take the Tour de Flex
AIR Team blog: Explore over 200 Flex and AIR samples with the new Tour de Flex application
AIR Team blog: Introducing Adobe AIR 1.5
Peter Ent: Adobe AIR 1.5 Announced at MAX 2008
Sujit Reddy G – The Evangelist: Adobe AIR 1.5 is live
AIR Team blog: Advanced JavaScript debugging support for AIR 1.5 apps from Aptana
Flashthusiast (Jen deHaan): Adobe AIR 1.5 is live, you should really go get it now
Mike Chambers: Adobe AIR 1.5 is out
Flex Doc Team blog: Flex 3.2: Loading sub-apps
Flex Doc Team blog: Adding ASDoc Comments to Flex MXML files
david zuckerman/adobe: Quick tour of ASDoc support in Gumbo (Flex Builder 4)
Mike Morearty: New Flex Builder debugger features: Conditional breakpoints, function calls from expressions, watchpoints, and more
david zuckerman/adobe: Flex Builder extensibility documentation online!
Sujit Reddy G – The Evangelist: Adobe Flash Platform it is
My journey in the world of RIA (Srinivas Annam): MAC Dashboard Style Calendar control in Flex
James Ward – RIA Cowboy: Drunk on Software Episode 3 – Performance Pitfalls of Flex痴 ArrayCollection
Adobe Labs blog: Text Layout Framework Released on Labs
Text Layout Framework Team blog: Teaser and Text Layout Framework Labs page is up!
Emmy Huang: Text Layout Framework beta available on Adobe Labs
Flashthusiast (Jen deHaan): Want to layout your text better? You can download the beta Text Layout Framework / component (use with Flash CS4 now)
Emmy Huang: SWF 10 spec available AND Flash Player alpha for 64-bit Linux on Labs
Penguin.SWF (Mike Melanson): Now Supporting 16 Exabytes
kaourantin.net (Tinic Uro): 64-bits
Penguin.SWF (Mike Melanson): http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/11/swf_and_flv_10_specs.html
James Ward – RIA Cowboy: Flash Player for 64-bit Linux – BETA NOW AVAILABLE!
James Ward – RIA Cowboy: Oracle CRM Gadgets using Adobe AIR and Flex
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: How to exclude objects on a master page from the tabbing order sequence
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Tips for maximizing Output service performance

And from our friends on the Flash Authoring, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams:

Flashthusiast (Jen deHaan): So is Flash CS4 perfect, or not?
Flashthusiast (Jen deHaan): Flash CS4: Modifying and applying a custom ease in the Motion Editor
Flashthusiast (Jen deHaan): Flash CS4: How to ease between keyframes using new motion tweens
Mike Chambers: Updated ActionScript 3 RIA API Guide
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flash conference news and updates

Finally, a bunch of post-MAX wrap-ups, session notes/files, and news on the upcoming RIA Hackathon hosted by Adobe India:

Frish’s Blog (Ryan Frishberg): MAX 2008 and MAX 2008: Item Renderer Talk
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): ItemRenderer Talk at MAX 360 Unconference and Slides and Examples from ItemRenderer Talk at MAX (Flex 360)
Mark Anders’ Blog: Thermo (Flash Catalyst) Unleased at MAX!
david zuckerman/adobe: MAX 2008: What to expect from “Extending Flex Builder” and MAX 2008: Sample content for Extending Flex Builder and MAX 2008: Extending Flex Builder presentation
Mike Morearty: News about tomorrow’s “Extending Flex Builder” talk and Extending Flex Builder: sample code for design.xml
Ethan Malasky: MAX2008: Maintain Security With Adobe AIR
Flashthusiast (Jen deHaan): Liveblogging MAX 2008 Day 1 General Session Keynote – Click Refresh!
Flashthusiast (Jen deHaan): Liveblogging MAX Sneak Peeks and Awards – Refresh, yo
Flashthusiast (Jen deHaan): Motion source FLA files for MAX presentation (Flash CS4 from Flash QE team)
James Ward – RIA Cowboy: MAX 2008: RIAs in the Cloud with Salesforce.com and Flex
Buntel Blog (Tim Buntel): Max wrap-up (not really)
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): MAXOWG – How was MAX NA?
Adobe MAX Blog: The road to MAX 2008 Europe
Sujit Reddy G – The Evangelist: riathon – RIA Hackathon by Adobe India
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Adobe riathon – registrations open・/a>

flexgeek (Harish Sivaramakrishnan): Adobe riathon ’08 – Register Today!
My journey in the world of RIA (Srinivas Annam): Adobe riathon’08 – Bangalore, India
Anirudh Sasikumar: Adobe Riathon 2008
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): FlashCamp SF 2008 – GaudIO with Dru Kepple, Larry Reynolds & Lucas Swick
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Ajax Exerience 2008 – Google Chrome and Web Applications with Ojan Vafai

Text Layout Framework beta live on Adobe Labs

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

Another new product posted on the Adobe Labs site! Head on over and check out the Text Layout Framework beta: An extensible library that delivers sophisticated and innovative typography in Adobe Flash Player 10.

This Week in Flex Developer Center and Adobe Developer Connection (11/20)

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

Here is a list of new entries posted by the Flex Developer Center, Adobe Developer Connection, and Adobe Labs teams from the past couple of DAYS (yay Adobe MAX!):

Adobe Flex Developer Center (Matt Chotin): Introducing Flex SDK 3.2 and Flex Builder 3.0.2
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Ryan Stewart): Flex 4 sneak peek
Adobe Developer Connection (Kevin Towes): Announcing Adobe Flash Media Server 3.5
Adobe Developer Connection (Ray Camden): Developing Facebook applications with ColdFusion
Adobe Developer Connection (Mihai Corlan): BlackBookSafe: Anatomy of an AIR 1.5 application
Adobe Developer Connection (Rob Christensen, Luis Polanco): Introducing Adobe AIR 1.5
Adobe Developer Connection (David Tucker): AIR 1.5 Cookbook excerpt: Applications and native window menus
Adobe Developer Connection (Adobe): White paper: Adobe Flash Player 10 security
Adobe Developer Connection (Matt Stow): Creating standards-compliant web designs with Fireworks CS4
The ADC Blog: New AIR 1.5 content in the AIR Developer Center
The ADC Blog: Flex Learning Paths: A new way to learn (about) Flex
The ADC Blog: MAX 2008 day one general session
The ADC Blog: (Video) MAX 2008: Adobe kicks off Day 1 in San Francisco
The ADC Blog: (Video) Question of the day: What was your geek-out moment on Day 1?
The ADC Blog: (Video) MAX 2008: Day 2 in San Francisco
The ADC Blog: (Video) Question of the day: What was your geek-out moment on Day 2?
The ADC Blog: (Video) MAX Awards 2008: The Happiness Factory – AKQA
The ADC Blog: (Video) MAX Awards 2008: NASDAQ Market Replay
The ADC Blog: (Video) MAX Awards 2008: Scrapblog
Adobe MAX Blog: MAXOWG – How was MAX NA?
Adobe Labs blog: Alchemy Released on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Centaur and Bolt Details Posted on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Configurator Released on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Durango Released on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: PatchPanel Released on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Genesis Details Posted on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Pixel Bender Prerelease 5 Released on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux Available on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Adobe Wave Details Posted on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Cocomo Released on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Stratus Details Posted on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Flash Catalyst and Gumbo Details Posted on Labs

Today’s new Adobe Labs entries (11/18/2008)

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

I’m sitting at the Adobe MAX 2008 Sneak Peeks and noticed that the Adobe Labs site has a few new additions today:

Configurator prerelease
(Nov 18) A utility that enables the easy creation of panels (palettes) for use in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

PatchPanel prerelease
(Nov 18) A first glimpse at combining the dynamic control of ActionScript with the power of Adobe Creative Suite.

Durango prerelease
(Nov 18) A framework that allows developers to build customizable Adobe AIR applications.

Blogging the Adobe MAX 2008 Sneak Peeks

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

Check out Jen Dehann’s excellent coverage of the Adobe MAX 2008 Awards and Keynotes, Flashthusiast.com: “Liveblogging MAX Sneak Peeks and Awards – Refresh, yo”.

Good work, Jan!

New information on Flash Catalyst (formerly Thermo) and Flex Gumbo on Adobe Labs site

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

Adobe Flash Catalyst
A new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating application interfaces and interactive content without coding.

Gumbo
The next generation of Adobe Flex, including both the next generation of Flex Builder and the next generation of the open source Flex SDK.

There is also some information on the Alchemy preview:
(Nov 17) A research project that allows users to compile C and C++ code into ActionScript libraries (AVM2).

New apps posted on Adobe Labs site

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

I just noticed that we posted three “new” apps on the Adobe Labs site:

Cocomo beta
(Nov 17) A Platform as a Service that allows Flex developers to easily add real-time social capabilities into RIAs.

Adobe Pixel Bender prerelease 5
(Nov 17) An image and video processing infrastructure with runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware.

Adobe Flash Player 10 prerelease
(Nov 17) A prerelease of the latest Flash Player version for Solaris and Linux 64-bit systems.