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November 26, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (11/26)

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

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

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

November 24, 2008

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

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/.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 5:14 PM | | Comments (0)

November 21, 2008

This Four Weeks in Flex Examples (11/21)

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!

Posted by Peter deHaan at 9:10 PM | | Comments (0)

This Week's Top Posts (11/21)

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:

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

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

Posted by Peter deHaan at 8:40 PM | | Comments (0)

Text Layout Framework beta live on Adobe Labs

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.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 1:21 PM | | Comments (0)

November 20, 2008

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

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!):

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:07 PM | | Comments (0)

November 18, 2008

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

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.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:04 PM | | Comments (0)

Blogging the Adobe MAX 2008 Sneak Peeks

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!

Posted by Peter deHaan at 6:43 PM | | Comments (0)

November 17, 2008

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

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).

Posted by Peter deHaan at 3:40 PM | | Comments (0)

New apps posted on Adobe Labs site

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.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 10:42 AM | | Comments (0)

Jen "Flashthusiast" Dehann on the Adobe MAX 2008 keynote

IF you couldn't make it to the Adobe MAX keynote, check out Jen's excellent liveblog at Flashthusiast.com: "Liveblogging MAX 2008 Day 1 General Session Keynote - Click Refresh!"

Posted by Peter deHaan at 10:36 AM | | Comments (4)

Adobe releases Flex Builder 3.0.2 and Flex SDK 3.2

A new article by Adobe's own Matt Chotin was just posted to the Flex Developer Center, "Introducing Flex SDK 3.2 and Flex Builder 3.0.2".

You can download the Flex Builder update from here, or if you wish to manually initiate an update to Flex Builder using the Adobe Updater, open Flex Builder and go to Help > Search for Flex Builder Updates...

You can find the Flex Builder 3.0.2 updater for Windows and Mac at the Adobe Flex Support Center's Updaters page, or you can download the Flex Builder 3.0.2 Professional trial from http://www.adobe.com/go/flex_trial.

Also, curious about the next version of Flex Gumbo? Check out Ryan Stewart and Matt Chotin's article on the Flex Developer Center, "Flex 4 sneak peek video".

Happy Flexing!

Posted by Peter deHaan at 12:21 AM | | Comments (0)

November 16, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (11/16)

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

A couple of Flex SDK/Flex Builder related Tech Notes:

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

Today's bonus link comes to us from Robert Penner:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:24 PM | | Comments (0)

This Week in Flex Developer Center and Adobe Developer Connection (11/16)

Here is a list of new entries posted by the Flex Developer Center and Developer Connection teams from the past couple of weeks:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:23 PM | | Comments (0)

It's MAX Eve!

I just finished TAing an all-day Flex+AIR+ColdFusion session and was looking through my RSS feeds and noticed an abundance of MAX related posts:

And some more conference news about the upcoming Flex Camp Boston, as well as the past FlashCamp 2008 in San Francisco, and the Ajax Experience 2008 conference:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:17 PM | | Comments (0)

November 10, 2008

New Flex Gumbo language reference documentation posted on livedocs.adobe.com

I was just looking at the Flex Gumbo LiveDocs at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/gumbo/langref/ and noticed they were updated recently!

If you're a fellow Gumbo-thusiast, check them out! And please, report any documentation issues you see at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex/. Documentation specific issues can be filed against the "Flex Documentation" product, whereas all Flex SDK specific issues can be filed against the "Flex SDK" product.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 4:01 PM | | Comments (0)