Peter deHaan

I just saw over on the ADC (Adobe Developer Connection) blog that they’ve released an updated version of the Adobe Cookbooks online application (or if you’re looking for the Adobe Flex Cookbook specifically, check out http://cookbooks.adobe.com/flex).

Also, head over to the Developer Connection site and read Ed Sullivan’s exellent “Introducing Adobe Cookbooks 2.0″ article.

Update: Wow, there are quite a few more Cookbooks than I expected:

• http://cookbooks.adobe.com – Cookbook home
• http://cookbooks.adobe.com/flex
• http://cookbooks.adobe.com/air
• http://cookbooks.adobe.com/coldfusion
• http://cookbooks.adobe.com/actionscript
• http://cookbooks.adobe.com/flashcatalyst
• http://cookbooks.adobe.com/video
• http://cookbooks.adobe.com/fireworks
• http://cookbooks.adobe.com/flash
• http://cookbooks.adobe.com/mobile
• http://cookbooks.adobe.com/flashplayer
• http://cookbooks.adobe.com/javascript
• http://cookbooks.adobe.com/dreamweaver
• http://cookbooks.adobe.com/blazeds
• http://cookbooks.adobe.com/livecycle
• http://cookbooks.adobe.com/ria
• http://cookbooks.adobe.com/php

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

• The ADC Blog: New content available in the Adobe Developer Connection (May 12, 2009)
• The ADC Blog: New content available in the Adobe Developer Connection (May 20, 2009)
• The ADC Blog: New content available in the Adobe Developer Connection (May 27, 2009)
• The ADC Blog: New content for Flex 4 SDK beta, Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst beta releases
• Adobe Developer Connection (Dan Carr): Understanding ActionScript 3 debugging in Flash
• Adobe Developer Connection (Marco Casario): The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development excerpt: Building Your First AIR Application
• Adobe Developer Connection (Joseph Lott): Adobe AIR in Action excerpt: Copy and paste, drag and drop
• Adobe Developer Connection (Juan Sanchez): Prototyping AIR applications with Fireworks
• Adobe Developer Connection (Duane Nickull): Adobe LiveCycle ES Java service invocation
• Adobe Developer Connection (Duane Nickull, Scott Macdonald): Invoking the LiveCycle ES 8.2.1 Distiller API from Java
• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Shashank Tiwari et al): AdvancED Flex 3: Sculpting interactive business intelligence interfaces
• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Alex Cougarman): Uploading a file with Flex and Java
• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Adobe): AIR 1.5: Building Desktop Applications with Flex 3

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

• The ADC Blog: Tell us about upcoming events and seminars
• The ADC Blog: Developers in the spotlight
• Adobe Labs blog: XMP Library for ActionScript Released on Labs

Adobe Flex Developer Center:

• Ryan Stewart: Getting started with Cocomo
• Jason Peters, Paulo Caroli: Unit testing with mock objects in ActionScript 3.0
• Pamela Fox: Creating a driving directions Flex app using the Google Maps API for Flash
• Peter Ent: Understanding Flex itemEditors – Part 1 inline itemEditors
• Charles Ward: Pixel Bender basics for Flex and AIR
• James Ward: Building a portable RIA with Flex and PDF

Adobe Developer Connection:

• Christophe Coenraets: Using the SQLite database access API in Adobe AIR
• Charles Ward: Pixel Bender basics for Flex and AIR
• Jonathan Duran: Using the Deco tool and Spray Brush to create complex, geometric patterns in Flash
• Adobe: Transitioning from Microsoft Windows Media to the Adobe Flash Platform
• David Hassoun: Dynamic streaming in Flash Media Server 3.5 – Part 1: Overview of the new capabilities. Part 2: ActionScript 3.0 dynamic stream API, Part 3: Integrating dynamic streaming with existing video players
• Abhinav Kapoor: ActionScript guide to dynamic streaming, Live dynamic streaming with Flash Media Server 3.5, Dynamic streaming on demand with Flash Media Server 3.5
• Ray Camden: Creating custom server behaviors and Dreamweaver extensions
• Stephanie Sullivan: From screen to print: Creating a print CSS in Dreamweaver
• Joseph Lowery: Performing full-featured form validations
• Joseph Lowery: Creating cross-client HTML emails
• Cheridan Smith: Foundation Form Creation excerpt: Getting into advanced form design
• Priyank Shrivastava: New Adobe Captivate 4: Taking eLearning to the next level
• Dale Rankine: Flash Lite 3 training video
• Ray Camden: Creating a Spry HTML data set
• Jim Babbage: Fireworks CS4 How-Tos excerpts: Importing, exporting, symbols, prototyping, scaling
• Dave Cronin: Industry trends in prototyping
• Stephanie Sullivan: Simple styling with CSS

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

• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Jozsef Vass): Stratus service for developing end-to-end applications using RTMFP in Flash Player
• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Adobe): Binding data and handling user events
• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Adobe): Animating with effects and transitions
• The ADC Blog: Adobe TV Video Podcasts On iTunes
• Adobe Developer Connection (Alex Cougarman): Creating a custom form validator in Flex
• Adobe Developer Connection (Chris Converse): Building scalable websites with Dreamweaver CS4
• Adobe Developer Connection (Mayur Mundada, Eugene Jude): Lorem Ipsum placeholder text generator for Fireworks
• Adobe Developer Connection (Shambhuling Nashi): Workspace Manager panel in Fireworks CS4
• Adobe Developer Connection (Adobe): Certified Flex 2 Developer Exam: Now available
• Adobe Developer Connection (Karl Sigiscar): Creating a rich buying experience with a data-driven RIA
• Adobe Developer Connection (Matt Stow): JavaScript for web designers
• Adobe Developer Connection (Roman Villarreal): Using YUI widgets in Dreamweaver CS4
• Adobe Developer Connection (Roman Villarreal): Understanding unobtrusive JavaScript in Dreamweaver CS4
• Adobe Developer Connection (Charles Ward): Developing cross-platform Adobe AIR applications
• Adobe Developer Connection (Adam Lehman): Dynamic image manipulation with ColdFusion
• Adobe Developer Connection (Rob Christensen): Introducing Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux

And from the fine folks at the Adobe Labs blog:

• Adobe Labs blog: Adobe PDF iFilter – 64-bit Support Now Shipping
• Adobe Labs blog: Stratus Released on Labs
• Adobe Labs blog: Alchemy Updates Posted on Labs
• Adobe Labs blog: PatchPanel Updates Released on Labs
• Adobe Labs blog: Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux Refresh Available on Labs
• Adobe Labs blog: Adobe AIR for Linux Now Shipping

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

• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Peter Ent): Understanding Flex itemRenderers – Part 5: Efficiency
• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Adobe): Denying Rights Management ES services for specific applications
• The ADC Blog: ADC Write and Give Program donates $6000 in Q4 of 2008
• Adobe Developer Connection (Rachel Luxemburg): Meet Adobe Groups
• Adobe Developer Connection (Adobe): Adobe Device Central 2.1 and Flash Lite 3.1 Updates
• Adobe Developer Connection (Mihai Corlan): Using the Adobe AIR update framework
• Adobe Developer Connection (Manvesh Vyas): Flash for surface computing
• Adobe Developer Connection (Adam Lehman): Working with PDF forms in ColdFusion
• Adobe Developer Connection (Sean Moore): Flex best practices – Part 2: Development practices
• Adobe Developer Connection (Jonathan Herbach): Flexibility in identifying and authenticating users for rights management
• Adobe Developer Connection (Mike Brunt): Using ColdFusion to enhance scalability and high availability

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

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

• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Joshua Noble, Todd Anderson): Flex 3 Cookbook excerpts: Images, bitmaps, videos, sounds; unit testing with FlexUnit; compiling and debugging
• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Chafic Kazoun, Joey Lott): Programming Flex 3 excerpts: Application debugging; embedding Flex applications in a web browser
• The ADC Blog: MAX and the ADC
• The ADC Blog: Flex 3 with AIR certification exam now available
• Adobe Developer Connection (Maik Schumacher): Put it all together: Adobe Flex, BlazeDS, and Hibernate JPA on Tomcat and MySQL
• Adobe Developer Connection (Adobe): Denying Rights Management ES services for specific applications
• Adobe Developer Connection (Sheri German): Working with images in Dreamweaver CS4
• Adobe Developer Connection (Razvan Cotlarciuc): Applying unobtrusive InContext Editing code
• Adobe Developer Connection (Kevin Hoyt): Graphical skinning with Flex
• Adobe Developer Connection (Adobe): Reach New Possibilities in Mobile at MAX 08
• Adobe Developer Connection (Bobby van der Sluis): Providing alternative content for SWF files
• Adobe Developer Connection (Scott Macdonald): Programmatically accessing LiveCycle Content Services ES
• Adobe Developer Connection (Laurel Reitman): Understanding the video encoding ecosystem for Flash

Here is a list of new entries posted by the Flex Developer Center and Developer Connection teams from the past week or so:

• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Bill Bain, Jason Madsen): Making Music with Adobe AIR
• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Anirudh Sasikumar): Bridging the gap between Flex and Struts using FxStruts
• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Duane Nickull): Building a video application with Flex Builder
• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Kevin Hoyt): Graphical skinning with Flex
• The ADC Blog: LiveCycle DS and 3rd party application webinar
• The ADC Blog: Get a load of new Fireworks CS4 material
• The ADC Blog: Scripted Testing added to Device Central CS4
• Adobe Developer Connection (Andrew Voltmer): Using Subversion with Dreamweaver CS4 – Part 1: Introducing Subversion, Part 2: Configuring Dreamweaver to use Subversion, Part 3: Configuring Apache with Subversion support
• Adobe Developer Connection (Alex Kalaidjian): Introduction to target version in Adobe LiveCycle Designer, Introduction to typography enhancements in LiveCycle Designer ES Update 1
• Adobe Developer Connection (Adam Lehman): Using Ajax to retrieve data from ColdFusion

A little bit of a busy week due to Adobe releasing Creative Suite 4 and Flash Player 10.

Here is a list of new entries posted by the Flex Developer Center and Developer Connection teams from the past week or so:

• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Ryan Frishberg): Creating SWC files with Flex
• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Peter Ent): Understanding Flex itemRenderers – Part 4: States and transitions
• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Richard Bates): Integrated PHP and Flex development with Zend Studio and Flex Builder
• Adobe Developer Connection (Doug Winnie): Introducing Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
• Adobe Developer Connection (Scott Fegette): Introducing Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
• Adobe Developer Connection (Mark Fletcher): Getting started with Dreamweaver CS4
• Adobe Developer Connection (Rick Jones): Introducing Adobe Fireworks CS4
• Adobe Developer Connection (Michael Tuminello): Top 10 features of Fireworks CS4 from an application designer’s perspective
• Adobe Developer Connection (Arun Kaza): Working with the Adobe Text Engine in Fireworks CS4
• Adobe Developer Connection (Adobe): Designing a website application with Fireworks CS4
• Adobe Developer Connection (Bobby van der Sluis): Detecting Flash Player versions and embedding SWF files with SWFObject 2
• Adobe Developer Connection (Jeff Swartz): Generating sounds dynamically in Flash Player 10
• Adobe Developer Connection (Charles Ward): Creating blends, filters and fills with Adobe Pixel Bender
• Adobe Developer Connection (Murray Summers): Getting started with InContext Editing for developers
• Adobe Developer Connection (Murray Summers): Getting started with InContext Editing for end users
• Adobe Developer Connection (Cristian Marin): Building secure InContext Editing websites
• Adobe Developer Connection (Gilbert Yu): Integrating LiveCycle Workspace ES With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

I almost forgot, you can also check out the Flash Quick Starts page on the Flash Developer Center to see numerous articles (some written by me) on getting starting with Flash CS4 (and CS3)!

Here is a list of new entries posted by the Flex Developer Center and Developer Connection teams from the past week or so:

• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Jettro Coenradie): Integrating Flex, BlazeDS, and Spring security
• Adobe Flex Developer Center (Alaric Cole): Learning Flex 3 excerpts: Applying visual effects and styling applications
• Adobe Developer Connection (Kastenmayer, John Champion): Publishing and sharing PDF portfolios online using Fireworks CS4 and Acrobat.com
• Adobe Developer Connection (Alex Kalaidjian): Introduction to tab order in LiveCycle Designer ES Update 1
• Adobe Developer Connection (Adobe): Applying content protections in Adobe Media Player