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BETA ActionScript 3.0 Reference for the Adobe Flash Platform released on help.adobe.com

I just "tweeted" this, but thought it warranted a nice little blog post as well.

The documentation team released a cool new version of the Adobe Flash Platform Language Reference (which includes all APIs from the following products: Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Adobe AIR, LiveCycle Data Services, Adobe ColdFusion, Adobe Flex, and Adobe Flash Player -- as well as the Text Layout Framework (TLF) classes). And the great news is, you can filter content based on Runtimes (Adobe AIR and/or Flash Player) as well as by Product (Flex, Flash Authoring, LiveCycle, and/or ColdFusion).

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/beta/reference/actionscript/3/

For more information, check out the following blog posts by real live members of the Adobe Learning Resources team:
"Introducing the ActionScript 3.0 Reference for the Adobe Flash Platform " via Adobe Flash Platform Runtime Documentation Team blog
"One ActionScript Language Reference to rule them all" via FlashLit blog (Rob Dixon)

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Adobe releases Flash Player 10,0,32,18

You can now head on over to www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html and grab the latest debug version(s) of the Adobe Flash Player (currently 10,0,32,18). Or, as always, you can find the release versions of Flash Player from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/.

Curious as to what is new in 10.0.32.18? Check out the "Overview of the Flash Player 10.0.32 Security Update" article on the Flash Player Developer Center.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 11:21 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This Two Week's Top Posts (6/7)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flash Builder (formerly Flex Builder), Adobe AIR, Flash Player, Flash Authoring, Text Layout Framework (TLF), LiveCycle, and Flash Media Server teams.

Flex 4 SDK, Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder), Flash Catalyst (formerly "Thermo") news:

Flex Team blog: Flex 4 SDK Beta Released!
Adobe Labs blog: Adobe Flex 4 SDK Now Available on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Adobe Flash Builder 4 Now Available on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Adobe Flash Catalyst Now Available on Labs
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Flex 4 Public Beta Released -- It's Alive!!!
Buntel Blog (Tim Buntel): Flash Builder 4 Beta is here
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Flex 4 SDK: Beta than Eva
much ado about something (nj): Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder 4, and Flex 4 betas available!
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Announcing public beta of Flash Builder 4 & Flash Catalyst
Mihai CORLAN: Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst betas are available on Adobe Labs
Pearls of Flex (Sreenivas Ramaswamy): FlashBuilder (FlexBuilder renamed) 4 Beta is out
LiveCycle Doc team: Adobe Flash Builder 4 Beta: Get it while it's hot!
Flex Doc Team blog: Documentation for the Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 Beta Releases
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Tour de Flex now includes Spark Samples
Flex Team blog: Free Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst e-Seminars Next Week
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Effects in Flex 4 SDK Beta: Part 1
Marking Occurrences (David Zuckerman): Holy Crap! There's a lot of new stuff in Flash Builder...
Mihai CORLAN: Articles on Flex 4, Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): [Bookmark This Page] Aggregation of Flash Builder 4 Blog Posts
Pearls of Flex (Sreenivas Ramaswamy): Blogs on Data Centric Development workflows in FlashBuilder 4 for PHP, HTTPService, ColdFusion and WebService
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Where community and Catalyst meet
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Two-part tutorial on Flash Catalyst and Flex 4
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flex 4 Black Ops skin
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Building Flex application for BlazeDS Remoting destinations using Flash Builder 4
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Using Flash Builder 4 for earlier BlazeDS builds
My journey in the world of RIA (srinivasannam): Introduction to Data Centric Development in Flash Builder 4 (Gumbo)
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Connecting to WebServices with the Data Centric Development (DCD) feature in Flash Builder 4 -- Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Building Flex application for a PHP class using Flash Builder 4
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Building a database based app using Flex and PHP with Flash Builder 4
Anirudh Sasikumar: Network Monitor in Flash Builder 4
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Built in Data Paging using Flash Builder 4
My journey in the world of RIA (srinivasannam): Using WebServices with Data Centric Development in Flash Builder 4
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Connecting to HTTP Services with the Data Centric Development (DCD) feature in Flash Builder 4
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Consuming JSON using Data Centric Development (DCD) feature in Flash Builder 4
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Flex Builder will be named as Flash Builder

General Flex, Flash Builder/Flex Builder stuff:

Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Using Flex Builder 3 with the Flex 4 SDK
Mike Morearty: Flex Builder tip: How to dismiss the "Add Watch Expression" dialog from the keyboard
Alex's Flex Closet (Alex Harui): More on Finding Memory Leaks
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Video: CodeDependent #2, er, 7
Mihai CORLAN: Blueprint -- a plugin for Flex Builder to access online examples
Pearls of Flex (Sreenivas Ramaswamy): Showing different icons in each cell of OLAPDataGrid based on the cell value

Conference stuff (360Flex, Adobe MAX, etc):

Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Flex 360 Indy -- Day 1 -- Bugquash
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Custom ItemRenderers Slides From Flex 360 Indy
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): 360Flex Sample: Implementing IDropInListItemRenderer to create a reusable itemRenderer
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): 360Flex Sample: Using a Slider as an itemRenderer
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): 360Flex Sample: Building a Performant itemRenderer by extending UIComponent
Renaun Erickson: Thoughts I missed in my Session
Words, punctuated (Paul Robertson): Thoughts from 360|Flex day one
Mihai CORLAN: Adobe Developer Day -- Boot Camps papers
Flash 10 Camp blog: FlashCamp San Francisco Keynote Video and Slides online
Flash 10 Camp blog: FlashCamp San Francisco Session Videos are online
Flex Team blog: Come Strut Your Stuff at the San Francisco Flash Camp
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Slides from FlashCamp SF -- Advanced CSS
Mihai CORLAN: MAX 2009 site
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Adobe Flash Platform Tools Preview -- 3rd June 2009
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Announcing Adobe Flash Platform Tools Preview -- 3rd June 2009

AIR stuff:

AIR Team blog: Download Betas of Adobe Flash Builder 4, Flex 4 & Flash Catalyst
AIR Team blog: Pandora Releases Premium App Powered by Adobe AIR
AIR Team blog: Salesforce.com Updates Toolkit for Adobe AIR and Flex
Flash Platform Runtime Documentation Team blog: The importance of providing an update mechanism in an AIR application
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Adobe AIR driving the military of tomorrow

Flash Authoring and Flash Player stuff:

Flash Authoring (Tareq AlJaber): Flash Outline View
Thomas Younsi: Web Camera in Flash
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): ByteArray workshop at Flash on the Beach
Flash Platform Runtime Documentation Team blog: DataProvider.getItemIndex()
Christian Cantrell: ActionScript function for turning a date into a time interval

LiveCycle stuff:

LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Forms IVS -- A Form-tastic Development and Testing Tool
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Customizing form guides using CSS: Missing in action

Flash Media Stuff:

Flash Media Blog: Announcing DVRCast and FLVPlayback update
Mihai CORLAN: New version of FLVPlayback component
Flash Media Server Examples (Jody Bleyle): Configuring Flash Media Server to support IPv6 and IPv4
Flash Media Server Examples (Jody Bleyle): Configuring FMS with an SSL hardware accelerator
Flash Media Server Examples (Jody Bleyle): Flash Media Server is a DVR
Flash Media Blog: Adobe Dynamic Media in the Rocky Mountains
Flash Media Blog: New Video Tutorial on P2P in Flash
Flash Media Blog: M6 Web (France) selects Adobe Flash Platform for TV on Demand

Other stuff:

Renaun Erickson: New = StructuredLogTestingSDK.swc, Old = RIALogger.swc
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Acrobat.com Presentations
Text Layout Framework Team blog: Acrobat.com Presentations Text Powered by TLF
Adobe Labs blog: Hub Released on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: BrowserLab Preview Now Available on Labs
Thomas Younsi: Flash and PaperVision Play With Spider

Posted by Peter deHaan at 11:07 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This Week's Top Posts (5/17)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, Adobe AIR, Flash Player, Flash Authoring, Text Layout Framework (TLF), and LiveCycle teams.

Conference-type stuff:

Flex Team blog: Flex Bug Quash - Indy Style
Mihai CORLAN: Bug Quash, second edition!
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Speaking at Flex 360 Indianapolis
Mihai CORLAN: Adobe Developer Day 6 days to go
Mihai CORLAN: Boot Camps: Introduction to Adobe AIR, and LiveCycle DS / BlazeDS
Matt Chotin: FlashCamp San Francisco, May 29, 2009
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): FlashCamp Announced May 29, 2009
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Effects and other Flex Stuff at Flash Camp SF: May 29th
Mike Chambers: FlashCamp San Francisco, May 29th : Flex 4, Flash Catalyst, Flex Builder 4
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Free FlashCamp in San Francisco
Flash 10 Camp blog: FlashCamp San Francisco, May 29th : Flex 4, Flash Catalyst, Flex Builder 4
Flash 10 Camp blog: FlashCamp San Francisco is Sold Out
Words, punctuated (Paul Robertson): A busy (and exciting) May for the Flex community
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): June Adobe User Groups Tours
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): FITC 2009 Toronto - A Preview of Adobe Flash Catalyst by Mark Anders
Mihai CORLAN: Swiss Flash User Group Conference on June 26-27
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): MAX 2009 Site Visit

Flex SDK-type stuff:

Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Compiling in Flex 4 with the Halo theme
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): What styles work on Spark skins?
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Top hiccups when migrating from Flex 3 to Flex 4
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Video: CodeDependent #1
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Video: Codedependent Reruns Already?
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: HTMLForm component - HTML equivalent in Flex
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Announcing pbjAS - An ActionScript 3.0 Pixel Bender Shader Library
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: DZone Podcast about Adobe AIR, Flex, and Java
Rich Internet Applications - Adobe Flex, Apollo and more (Anantharaman Narayana): Developing a Rich Internet Google App Engine Application using Adobe Flex
Mark Anders' Blog: Thoughts on FXG Design and Motivation
Mihai CORLAN : Some interesting articles

Flex Builder type stuff:

Buntel Blog (Tim Buntel) : Gumbo will be Flash Builder 4 - but you already know that!
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): A much needed name change
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flash Builder rebrand FAQ
Mihai CORLAN: About the rebranding of Flex Builder into Flash Builder
Mihai CORLAN: Win a Flex Builder 3 license
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Would you pay for Flex Builder on Linux?
Mihai CORLAN: Flex Builder for Linux
Anirudh Sasikumar : Emacs Plugin for Eclipse Ganymede

Adobe AIR type stuff:

AIR Team blog: Check out Facebook Desktop for Adobe AIR
Christian Cantrell: Adobe Feeds Data Problem
AIR Team blog: FlashCamp San Francisco Announced
AIR Team blog: Performance Tips for Adobe AIR
AIR Team blog: Writing well-behaved, efficient, AIR applications
Pursuit of Simplicity (Oliver Goldman): Upgrade Codes, Product Codes, and Silent AIR Application Uninstall
AIR Team blog: Now Boarding -- Casual Gaming Powered by Adobe AIR
AIR Team blog: New York Times Reader 2.0 Launches on Adobe AIR
Ashutosh Sharma: Adobe AIR on Linux: Call for Pre-Release Users

LiveCycle/BlaseDS type stuff:

LiveCycle Doc team: Output IVS - A Useful Output ES Development Tool
LiveCycle Doc team: Latest Tech Notes
LiveCycle Doc team: Comparing Alfresco Enterprise Edition and Adobe LiveCycle Contentspace ES
LiveCycle Doc team: Thinking About Form Design
LiveCycle Doc team: Troubleshooting the LiveCycle ES Configuration Manager
Tom Jordahl's musings: Brendan Meutzner on LCDS and CF
Mihai CORLAN: SpringSource and the Adobe Flash Platform
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: AIR based Tool to generate Flex code for consuming/exposing BlazeDS Remoting services
Mihai CORLAN: ADC article about SaaS
Mihai CORLAN: SAP and Adobe developer contest: Flex Your Muscles with Xcelsius SDK Contest and Win 15K!

Flash Authoring, Flash Player, Text Layout Framework (TLF) type stuff:

Galvan on Flash (Richard Galvan): Flash CS4 update now available
Flash Authoring (Tareq AlJaber): Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Update (10.0.2) is live on adobe.com
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): New update available for Flash CS4!
Flashthusiast by Jen deHaan: Animation Learning Guide released on Flash Dev Center
Flashthusiast by Jen deHaan: Migrating from Classic Tweens to New Tweens? Check out this new article
Flashthusiast by Jen deHaan: Great extensions that work with new motion tweens in Flash CS4
Flash Authoring (Tareq AlJaber): Did you know????
Thomas Younsi: FMS Live Service / Application doesn't have permissions for server-side record/append of streams; access denied to stream liveStream
Text Layout Framework (TLF) Team blog: Update on Support for Flash Professional
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): ColorTransform's Effects on Gradients
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): I Lied - Array Iteration Order
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Random Flex Rant - GUI Validation
Penguin.SWF (Mike Melanson): Serving Two Master Libraries
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): New tutorial on using MonsterDebugger
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Inverted augmented reality with Pixel Bender

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This Week's Top Posts (3/14)

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

Flex Team blog: Flex SDK 3.3 Released
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Flex 3.3 (a new update) is officially available
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Flex 3.3 Released!
Mihai Corlan: Flex SDK 3.3 is out!
Mihai Corlan: Adobe AIR 1.5.1 is out
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Flex 4 SDK downloads now include Spark skins for all the components
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): How to add a scrollbar to a Gumbo Application
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Flex Gumbo Sample - Pretty Button with FXG
Buntel Blog (Tim Buntel): How will CF/Flex work in FB4?
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Flex Monkey Patching and Framework RSLs
Flex Team blog: Help the Flex Team by taking our survey!
getting and setting (Scott Evans): take the flex user survey
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: How Do You Use Flex?
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Flex BugQuash - Live from Seattle or Online via Connect
Flex Doc Team blog: Simple Twitter client in Flex
Christian Cantrell: Make the mouse wheel work in Flash on OS X
Mike Morearty: All Flex developers, please do this.
Anirudh Sasikumar: Flex Datamap Control
Pearls of Flex (Sreenivas): Flex OLAP aggregating strings.
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Video: Smarter Effects in Gumbo and Video: Flex 3 Effects
Matt Chotin: Devoxx Talk now available on Parleys
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Devoxx Talk Posted on Parleys.com: 'The Future of Rich Internet Applications'
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Video - The Future of Rich Internet Applications at Devoxx 2008
Mihai Corlan: Adobe TV segment: Generate a Flex/J2EE Database Application
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Get The Tour de Flex DVD
Codedependent (Chet Haase): AS34J2: ActionScript for Java Developers, Part Two (Part 1)
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Facebook and the Flash Platform ESeminar
Kevin Hoyt: ActionScript 3 TIFF Encoder
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Detecting your Flash Player Version
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Adobe nominated for Developer Awards @ GIDS - Vote
Matt Chotin: ILOG Elixir V2 Now Available
AIR Team blog: ILOG Releases New Data Visualization Components for Adobe AIR
Kevin Hoyt: Collaborative Calendar with AFCS and iLog
AIR Team blog: Adobe AIR 1.5.1 Released
Ashutosh Sharma: Tutorial - Using Flex Builder Linux with AIR 1.5.1
Ashutosh Sharma: Setting the correct MIME type for AIR applications on web servers
Ashutosh Sharma: New Adobe AIR Marketplace
Pursuit of Simplicity (Oliver Goldman): Performance-Tuning AIR Applications at the Adobe Developer Center
AIR Team blog: New Performance-tuning article on Adobe AIR Developer Center
AIR Team blog: Adobe AIR Development Plug-In for Aptana Studio Now Available
AIR Team blog: Share News with ShareFire
AIR Team blog: Fast & Furious Desktop Widget Powered by Adobe AIR
Ashutosh Sharma: AIR applications and root access on Linux
Ashutosh Sharma: Why does AIR install only on rpm/deb based Linux distros?
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Using process variables as constants
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Displaying process data in Flex controls
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Using web services to search for Rights Management events
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Dymystifying application configuration for LiveCycle Workspace ES

And some posts on Adobe MAX 2009 conference (Los Angeles CA - Oct 4-7 2009):

Adobe MAX Blog: Adobe MAX 2009 - Call for Sessions and Labs
Matt Chotin: Call for MAX 2009 Sessions
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Adobe MAX 2009 - Call for Sessions and Labs
Mihai Corlan: Do you want to be a speaker at MAX 2009?

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

Jay Armstrong - Flashes of Interest: List of Getting Started Videos Added to Flash Help
Flash Authoring (Tareq AlJaber): Slice 9 in Adobe Flash CS4
Thomas Younsi: How MPEG-4 and H.264 video compression work
Thomas Younsi: How to Play Video in Flash in Slow Motion using NetStream
Mike Chambers: Scripting with ActionScript 3 and Flash CS4
Mike Chambers: Monitoring File Changes in Adobe AIR
Mike Chambers: Error: Error #2037: Functions called in incorrect sequence, or earlier call was unsuccessful
Daniel Dura: Find Flash, Flex and AIR Jobs on Twitter
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Introduction to Flex tutorial (part 3) and New video tutorial on runtime font loading
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Master Collection dead drop London and The London dead drop explained (video)

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Adobe Flash Player 9.0.159.0 available on adobe.com

Last week I blogged that we had released a new version of Flash Player 10 ("Adobe Flash Player 10.0.22.87 available on adobe.com"), but apparently I missed the fact that we also released an updated version of Flash Player 9 (9.0.159.0)!

As always, you can download the debugger versions from the Adobe Flash Player Downloads page at www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 10:45 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Adobe Flash Player 10.0.22.87 available on adobe.com

Not sure how long it has been there, but if you haven't already downloaded Adobe Flash Player 10.0.22.x, head on over to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ and grab the latest version of Flash Player. Not sure which version of Flash Player you're currently rocking? Fear not, we got you covered: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/
Plus, If you want 'em, we also have some Installation Instructions as well as some System Requirements.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 9:54 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)

This Week's Top Posts (2/24)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, AIR, Text Layout Framework (TLF), and LiveCycle teams (as well as a bonus tech note):

iamdeepa on flex (Deepa Subramaniam): Speaking at BAADAUG Meeting (2/24) About Gumbo & Adobe Flash Catalyst
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Flex JIRA Tips (part V) - What does it mean when my bug is 'Deferred'?, Flex JIRA Tips (part VI): Understanding Milestones, and Flex JIRA Tips (part VII): How do I request a Feature in Flex?
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): The Fx Prefix is history?!?!
flex spaghetti (Rob Vollmar): Flex bug database documentation
flex spaghetti (Rob Vollmar): "We file bugs and they go into a black hole"
Ted On Flex by Ted Patrick: 20% off at Adobe Store for NA User Group Members
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Join the Flex Bug Quash!
Mihai CORLAN: Do you want to fix some Flex SDK bugs?
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Video: Gumbo Effects
Marking Occurrences (David Zuckerman): Help us decide where to go with Flex 4
Mihai CORLAN: Do you want to join the Flex Builder Pre-Release Program?
Buntel Blog (Tim Buntel): CF and the future of Flex
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Really Live Cycle Data Services
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Eclipse E4 M1 SWT: JAVA to AS3
Flex Doc Team blog: ColdFusion 8 documentation is now running under Community Help
Flex Team blog: Bicycles, Flex and LiveCycle Data Services - AMGEN Tour of California
Codedependent (Chet Haase): AS34J1
Matt Chotin: Recorded MAX sessions available
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Problems logging into Flex Jira?
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Styling the Selected Button of a ButtonBar (Flex 3 vs Gumbo)
Marking Occurrences (David Zuckerman): Flex Builder's wikipedia entry is a little harsh
AIR Team blog: Updated AIR Marketplace Launched
AIR Team blog: Adobe AIR + Netflix API + Dojo Toolkit = Queued Movie Manager
Pursuit of Simplicity (Oliver Goldman): Using TLS Client Authentication with AIR Applications
Pursuit of Simplicity (Oliver Goldman): Using InvokeEvent.reason in AIR 1.5.1
AIR Team blog: Creating cinematic effecs with Adobe Pixel Bender and JavaScript
Mihai CORLAN: mindomo.com - Flash and AIR mind mapping tool
Mihai CORLAN: Flex and PHP: remoting with WebORB
Mihai CORLAN: The first Romanian FlexCamp outside of Bucharest
Mihai CORLAN: Flex and ActionScript frameworks and libraries
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Learn Flex Fast - 3 Day Jam in Crested Butte, Colorado
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Upcoming Flex Presos: Colorado, Vegas, Philly, Sydney, and Brisbane
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: RIA Cowboy Videos - Dreamforce 2008 - InetSoft, RIA Cowboy Videos - Dreamforce 2008 - Tier1CRM, RIA Cowboy Videos - Dreamforce 2008 - PivotLink, RIA Cowboy Videos - Dreamforce 2008 - Cloud9 Analytics, RIA Cowboy Videos - Dreamforce 2008 - Infowelders
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: The Startup Success Podcast
Kevin Hoyt: Types of Evangelists
flexgeek (Harish Sivaramakrishnan): Moving to http://blog.flexgeek.in
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): At Yahoo Hackday, Won the Yahoo! Hackday, thanks to Flex :)
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Yahoo BOSS search built in 90 Seconds at Yahoo hack Day
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): High Performance AIR Applications
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): sandbox violation - find answers to your Flex questions
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Started using twitter
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Adobe on twitter
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Adobe on Twitter
Anirudh Sasikumar: Flex OpenID Login Component
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Documentation for as3googlecalendarlib
Mihai CORLAN: How to add a scrollbar to Text Layout Framework
Text Layout Framework Team blog: TLF API Changes in Build 370
Text Layout Framework Team blog: Introduction to TLF in Flex from the Adobe Developer Connection
Text Layout Framework Team blog: IFormatResolver And Using CSS With TLF
Text Layout Framework Team blog: Example: Adding a scrollbar in Flex
Text Layout Framework Team blog: Follow AdobeTLF on Twitter
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: LiveCycle, from an Evangelist's perspective
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Programmatically accessing LiveCycle Content Services ES
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: The LiveCycle Terminology Secret Decoder Ring
Flex Tech Note: Report progress while loading SWFs and Images in SWFLoader

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

Flashthusiast (Jen deHaan): New Flash Players for Flash CS4
Thomas Younsi: ActionScript 2.0 to ActionScrip3.0 Migration
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Flex SDK 3 doesn't like arithmetic in member variable definitions [Updated]
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): FP10 Bug Report: TextField.text does not recognize pasted newlines (Mac)
Thomas Younsi: How to convert XMP Cuepoint Time to Millisecond in AS3
Thomas Younsi: Size matter... Deep inside FLVplayback to reduce the size of the generated SWF
Flash Authoring (Tareq AlJaber): Using StringUtil Class in Flash
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Snake Box a 3D/Flash Player 10 take on the snake game
FlashLit. (Rob Dixon): ASDoc now works with Flex MXML files
Words, punctuated (Paul Robertson): Undo and redo in ActionScript textfields
Mike Chambers: FITC Amsterdam / FlashCamp London
Mike Chambers: Monitoring System Volume changes with Adobe AIR
Daniel Dura: New Adobe AIR Marketplace
Daniel Dura: Adobe AIR Advertising Platform
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Introduction to Flex tutorial (part 2)
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): What is the F4V format for?
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Master Collection dead drop - Amsterdam, The Amsterdam Drop Explained
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): New snippets panel for Flash CS4

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This Week's Top Posts (2/6)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, AIR, and LiveCycle teams (as well as a bonus tech note):

Flex Team blog: The First Flex Open Iteration Meeting (February 10th)
iamdeepa on flex (Deepa Subramaniam): Flex Community Feedback Forum (January 28th)
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): A Public Forum For the Flex Community Tomorrow (January 28th)
Flex Team blog: Flex Community Feedback Forum Follow Up
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Declarative Function Definitions in MXML
Marking Occurrences (David Zuckerman): Listen to me rant about ActionScript, part 3 (Part 1, Part 2)
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Get Drunk on Software at the Flex Jam
flexgeek (Harish Sivaramakrishnan): First Preview - colrful desktop
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Flex SDK Fixed Bugs in 3.3
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Flash Player 10 at 55% in 2 months and 100M AIR Installs
Peter Ent: Adobe AIR passes 100 Million Installs
AIR Team blog: AIR Passes 100 Million Installs
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Video: MAX Presentation on Filthy Rich Flex Clients
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: AS3 library for Google Calendar (as3googlecalendarlib)
Flex Doc Team blog: Updated Doc on using the Flex ASDoc Tool
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Adobe MAX 2008 Ends and MAX 2009 Begins
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Flex JIRA Tips (part I): Voting on Bugs, Flex Jira Tips (part II) : XML Feeds and Email Subscriptions, Flex JIRA Tips (part III): How do I reopen a 'Closed' bug?, Flex JIRA Tips (part IV): Community Fix Candidates
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): New Apps on Adobe Groups: Jobs, Calendar, Messaging
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): MindJet Launches MindManager Web ( 100% Flash mind mapping online )
Anirudh Sasikumar : sandboxviolation AIR App with Offline Support
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: RIA Weeky #41: Portals and RIAs - Flex and Open Source
Peter Ent: Special Olympics Needs Your Help
AIR Team blog: Build real-time social apps using Adobe AIR, Flex and the Cocomo Beta
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Following Indian Stock Markets made easier. Flex and AIR to rescue
Flex Doc Team blog: Changing chart series color at run time with a ColorPicker
Rob Adams's User Eccentric: The Four Qualities of Successful Design Researchers
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Adobe Reader Customer Survey
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Using Assembler IVS to Test DDX Expressions
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Customer Question: Help
Flex Builder Tech Notes: Compiling custom form guide components with more recent versions of Flex SDK (LiveCycle ES)
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: BlazeDS adapter to invoke multiple classes on a Remoting destination
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Adobe TV - Data Synchronization with Flex and LCDS
Renaun Erickson: backgroundColor with showFlexChrome="false"

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

Galvan on Flash (Richard Galvan): Concerns and issues with Flash CS4
Flashthusiast (Jen deHaan): Galvan comments on Flash CS4 concerns
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Got a complaint about Flash CS4?
Flashthusiast (Jen deHaan): Flash CS4: Using F6 with new motion tweens
Jay Armstrong - Flashes of Interest: Complete List of Flash Articles, Tutorials, Videos, Etc. on Adobe.com
Jay Armstrong - Flashes of Interest: Flash Online Help Updated
Jay Armstrong - Flashes of Interest: AIR App: AS3 Language Reference
Thomas Younsi: Some flash web site i like
Thomas Younsi: Pixel Bender Filter in Flash CS4
Thomas Younsi: My Favorites Flash AS2/AS3 Componenta/FLA
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): WIWTW: ActionScript on which core?
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Equality (==) - Simple, Right?
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Fireworks CS4 and the Shifty Text Box
Mike Chambers: ActionScript 3 Reference for iPhone
Jay Armstrong - Flashes of Interest: ActionScript 3.0 API Reference for iPhone available
Words, punctuated (Paul Robertson): Now updated: "Doppler" AIR SQL query testing tool
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Flash Player 10 at 56% in two months!!
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Awesome Flash Player 10/PixelBender Game
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Flash's LoaderInfo Reuse in ActionScript 3.0
Thomas Younsi: Flash CS3 to Flash CS4 migration awerness when using FLVPlayback
Mike Chambers: Adobe publishing RTMP spec
Mike Chambers: Suggestions for ActionScript 3 Migration Cookbook?
Mike Chambers: AIR Bug : AIR Install dialog is displayed in wrong language
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): A tribute to preloaders
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Want to use my code in commercial projects?
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): New tutorial on 3D Flash video without code
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Introduction to Flex tutorial (part 1)
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): CS4 Master Collection dead drop
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): First dead drop has been found
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flasher Magazine issue 2 now live
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Master Collection dead drop Boston (FOUND)
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Pixel Bender basics on Adobe TV
Adobe Community Help blog: OpenSearch plugins available for your browser
Adobe Community Help blog: Adobe Community Help: the Movie
Adobe Community Help blog: Behold, ColdFusion fans: the ColdFusion search engine is here!

And today's "bonus link" comes to us today from Adobe's own Alan Musselman: Have you migrated from AS2 to AS3 yet?, which is a list of the top 8 Resources for learning ActionScript 3.0.

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This Week's Top Posts (12/22)

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

much ado about something (nj): Video demo of Flash Catalyst (formerly Thermo) on Adobe Edge
david zuckerman/adobe: Listen to me rant about ActionScript, part 2
david zuckerman/adobe: Flex Builder Protip: Jump to matching braces
david zuckerman/adobe: Flex Builder Protip: Import missing imports
Mike Morearty: UI race conditions
Flex Team blog: 1,000,000 Flex samples viewed with Tour de Flex
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: AS3 code for retrieving contacts from Gmail
Anirudh Sasikumar: Chunked Encryption in AS3 via as3crypto
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Invoking an AIR app from another AIR app
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Oh, Devoxx!
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: First Steps in Flex Now Available for Purchase
Frish's Blog (Ryan Frishberg): Flex Videos on your iPod
Kevin Hoyt: Using the System Tray from JavaScript with AIR
Kevin Hoyt: Notification Windows with JavaScript and AIR
Kevin Hoyt: System Tray, Notification and Flickr (Juice)
Pursuit of Simplicity (Oliver Goldman): Installers Can Only Do So Much
Pursuit of Simplicity (Oliver Goldman): Changes to HTMLLoader.loadString() in AIR 1.5
Pursuit of Simplicity (Oliver Goldman): Can One AIR Application Launch Another?
Ethan Malasky: Privileged Modules: HOWTO validate signatures
AIR Team blog: Monetizing Applications with Adobe AIR
AIR Team blog: Build an AIR Application and Compete in the Ribbit $100,000 Killer App Challenge
AIR Team blog: Adobe AIR powered cyn.in desktop fuses instant messengers and web based collaboration
AIR Team blog: Adobe AIR 1.5 now available for Linux
AIR Team blog: Tips on resolving application issues for Linux users
AIR Team blog: BBC launches iPlayer desktop on Adobe AIR
much ado about something (nj): Snackr v0.39 TEST available; Snackr beta program
LiveCycle Doc team: Letter to Santa Claus

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

Flashthusiast (Jen deHaan): Download this Flash command - Automatically name selected instances… sequentially
Flashthusiast (Jen deHaan): Flash CS4 example: Spray Brush, Tween instance, new motion, AS3, fancy JSFL… Profit!
Flashthusiast (Jen deHaan): Flash CS4 lets you show grids on top of your artwork
Jay Armstrong - Flashes of Interest: Finding the Flash Help, In All Its Forms
Jay Armstrong - Flashes of Interest: You can now set a preference for F1 destination in most CS4 products
Thomas Younsi: Flash CS4 to Flash Media Server 3 publication for RTMP
Thomas Younsi: Setting Flex builder 3 to debug your swf with Flash CS4 and Flash CS3 installed
Emmy Huang: Improving live video experiences
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): AS3: Determining the viewable side of a display object
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): FP10 Bug Report: Garbled audio with higher than 44KHz sampling rate
Mike Chambers: Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux is out
Daniel Dura: The Ribbit $100,000 Killer App Challenge
Daniel Dura: Video: Encrypting Data in Adobe AIR Applications
Daniel Dura: Video: Creating Custom Chrome in AIR using Flex
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Updates to Pixel Bender tutorial
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Wii Massager AIR application
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): New video tutorial on using Ribbit
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): 25 lines that would impress Einstein
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Choosing a Flash tweening library
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Want to hang out for 8 hours and do Flash?

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

Matt Chotin: Slides from MAX 2008
iamdeepa on flex (Deepa Subramaniam): MAX 2008 Session Materials
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Adobe MAX Session Videos
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): MAX SESSIONS Launched on AdobeTV - tv.adobe.com
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): MAX SESSIONS on AdobeTV - Update and MRSS Feeds
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): MAX Sessions Online - Intro to Catalyst and Flex 4
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): MAX SESSIONS on AdobeTV - Added 25 sessions
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): ILOG Elixir at MAX
Text Layout Framework Team blog: Video for MAX 2008 TLF session available
Adobe MAX Blog: Text Component Library for Flash Player 10 by Robin Briggs
Adobe MAX Blog: How to Build a Mobile Business by Mads Djurhuus
Adobe MAX Blog: Adobe Roadmap: Video by Paul Betlem and Pritham Shetty
Adobe MAX Blog: Using Flash CS4 in Education by Bill Bain
Adobe MAX Blog: ILOG Elixir: User Experiences by Erwan Paccard
Adobe MAX Blog: Delivering Integrated Advertising Across Multiple Channels

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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:

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

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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:

AIR Team blog: Welcome to the Adobe AIR Team Blog
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Adobe AIR team Blog
Matt Chotin: AIR Team Blog
Flex Doc Team blog: Check out the Experience Design team's re-launched site
iamdeepa on flex (Deepa Subramaniam): More Gumbo Specs Posted, part trois!
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Video: Custom Flash Graphics
AIR Team blog: Paul Robertson presents a detailed examination of AIR's SQLite database
AIR Team blog: Ryan Stewart and Chris Brichford Discuss HTML Support in Adobe AIR
AIR Team blog: SitePen announces Dojo Extensions for Adobe AIR
AIR Team blog: AIR Recipes: Tips and Tricks for AIR Application Development
AIR Team blog: Manage your WordPress blog comments with Moderator
Kevin Hoyt: Reading iCalendar Files with Flash Player 10
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Drunk on Software Episode 2 - Automated Testing with FlexMonkey
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): AS3 Cloud APIs - Nonoba Payment API
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: RIA Cowboy Videos - Neotys - Flex Load Testing
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: LincVolt Flex App in Salesforce Keynote
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Portable RIAs - Flex Apps in PDFs
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Intuit Unites Flex RIAs and the Cloud
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 Adds Flex Support
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: RIA Cowboy Videos - Lightstreamer - Data Streaming for Flex
Kevin Hoyt: Determining Image Type and DimensionsSujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: FileReference in Flash Player 10
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Adobe Flex 3 with AIR ACE Exam is available now
Anirudh Sasikumar: Flex Photo Album using a Custom Page Flip Effect and Deep Linking
Random thoughts, Right actions (Sunil Bannur): Memory Leak - Changing ColumnSeries itemRenderer at runtime - FLEXDMV-1882

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

LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Tech Notes: October 6, 2008 – November 7, 2008
Flex Tech Note: Endpoint.AMF Error Messages (Flex, LiveCycle DS)
Flex Tech Note: Performance of SQL API for Inserts and Commits slow on Mac OS (FlexBuilder)

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

Flashthusiast (Jen deHann): Flash CS4 Trial appears to be live for real now
Flashthusiast (John Mayhew): Understanding Flash CS4 Motion XML
Flashthusiast (Jen deHann): Adobe MAX and motion tweens: a perfect combination, better than PB&J even
Thomas Younsi: FLV Cuepoints in Flash CS3 with Flash Video Encoder versus FLV and F4V Cuepoints in Flash CS4 with Adobe Media Encoder Best Practice
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Did you know? You can log Flash Player bugs!
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Post-Flash Player Release Depression
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): and the winner is... Flash
Mike Chambers: Getting the File URI of a File in an AIR app's install directory
Mike Chambers: Growl support for Adobe AIR applications
Mike Chambers: Show us your AIR / Flex / ColdFusion apps at MAX
Mike Chambers: As3CoreLib .92 Posted
Daniel Dura: Moderator Updates
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Breaking and Entering at MAX
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flash Player 10 Video Flipper 3D
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): 3D video flip tutorial now live
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Fake Receipt AIR Application
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): The ActionScript Conference video report
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flash Player 10 Z-Sorting Class
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Click-n-zoom 3D carousel
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Click and zoom 3D carousel tutorial live
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Background generation with microscopes
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): New tutorial on green screen fundamentals

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

Robert Penner on Flash: Misconceptions about how Flash CS4 implements 3D

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This Week's Top Posts (10/30)

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

Pete's Blog (Peter Farland): Advanced CSS Selector
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): New CSS Selectors are supported in the Flex 4 trunk
Matt Chotin: Latest Flex Spec: CSS Selectors
iamdeepa on flex (Deepa Subramaniam): More Gumbo Specs Posted, part deux!
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Flex Specific[anim]ations Posted
Matt Chotin: More Flex Specs: Effects and Animation
iamdeepa on flex (Deepa Subramaniam): Whats with the 'Fx' prefixing?
Flex Team blog: Adobe Flex Facebook Page Giveaway
Matt Chotin: Rescue me!
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Video: Glow For It
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Lets all get Drunk on Software!
Flex Team blog: Flex Developer Survey for Data Visualization
Kevin Hoyt: Lots of Flash, Flex, and Zend, PHP Samples
Flex Team blog: Flex and PHP / Zend Framework Samples for PHP Developers
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Sliderocket Launches
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): ActionScript 3 Cloud/Service APIs and ActionScript 3 Cloud/Service APIs - Update
Matt Chotin: Capacity Planning for LCDS
Tom Jordahl's musings: LiveCycle Data Services Capicity Planning Guide
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Using LiveCycle Designer ES to create and print RFID labels
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: LiveCycle 8.2 Service Pack 1 now available
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Configuring Rights Management ES Client Access
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Localizing the Share Queue Request form (queuesharing.swf file)

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

Flashthusiast (Jen deHann): Movie clip buttons in a fight: it's AS2 vs. AS3 (again)
Flash Authoring blog (Tareq AlJaber): Using Flex Webservice component in Flash CS4
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): AS3: Where are function variables declared?
Emmy Huang: A small improvement to our version numbering (aka Why there won't be a "Flash Player 10 Update 1")
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Flash Player Versioning Moving Forward
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Flash Player 10 experiment #1: Cloth Texture Mapping
Mike Chambers: Complete List of new Flash Player 10 APIs
Mike Chambers: Are you still using ActionScript 2? (or 1)?
Mike Chambers: Is ActionScript 2 Development Faster than ActionScript 3 Development?
Daniel Dura: Launched: WordPress Comment Moderator AIR Application
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Automatic Motion Preset Previews
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Tough questions for Adobe
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flash Mathographics
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Modifying Keyboard Shortcuts in Flash CS4
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Acrobat animation with Fermat spiral
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): New Version of SWFUpload Released
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Natzke-inspired Flash math animation
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): New tutorial on Flash QuickTime export
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Justin Everett-Church on Flash 10 FileReference
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): New symbol icons in Flash CS4
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): New video tutorial on using ZendAMF

Various posts on Adobe MAX 2008, RIA Hackathon in India, the past Flash 10 Camp in San Francisco, as well as some videos from the past 360Flex conference in San Jose:

Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): MAX NA Registration breaks 4035 - 18 days to MAX NA
Flex Team blog: Purchase Flex Builder for MAX Discount
Peter Ent: MAX North America
flexgeek (Harish Sivaramakrishnan): Coming Soon - Adobe <riathon/>
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: One day hackathon by Adobe
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): riathon - An RIA Hackathon by Adobe India. Coming soon!
Flex Team blog: Missed the Flex and Zend e-Seminar? No Problem.
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Architecture of RIA from JAOO
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Adobe AIR and Flex in Amsterdam
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - High Definition Video & Flex Hands On by Christopher Keeler
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Versioning Support for Large Apps & Portals by Alex Harui
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Creating Flex Components by Jeffry Houser
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Promoting your Flex and AIR applications by Puneet Goel
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Creating an MMO w/ Flex 3 in 59 Min by Samuel Asher Rivello
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - How to make your AIR app blow up with Merapi by Adam Flater
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Encrypting Flex & Protecting Revenue by Andrew Westberg
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Implementing BlazeDS by Andrew Powell
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): FlashCamp SF 2008 - Webcam Effects Engine with Alex Notov
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): FlashCamp SF 2008 - Avenue Fighter w/ Alex Bustin, Brian Kiel, Ben Mendelsohn, Tony Shumskas & Jacob Surber
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): FlashCamp SF 2008 - Burger Bonanza with Ed McManus, Erik Ketcham, Kevin Van Heusen & Winrich Peralta
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): FlashCamp SF 2008 - Combine Textfields with Justin Putney
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): FlashCamp SF 2008 - Boning the Fish with the SRJC team
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): FlashCamp SF 2008 - Everything except the kitchen sink.. dancing yeti
Flash 10 Camp blog: Justin Everett-Church on Flash Player 10
Flash 10 Camp blog: Lee Brimelow on Flash CS4
Flash 10 Camp blog: Richard Galvan on Flash CS4

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This Week's Top Posts (10/17)

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

Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Flash Player 10 is released! Flash Player 9 it was a great era!
Frish's Blog (Ryan Frishberg): SWCs, Modules, and RSLs
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Video Time
Matt Chotin: Early Bird Registration for MAX Europe Almost Done
Flex Team blog: Flex and Flash Player 10
Flex Team blog: ZendAMF In Zend Framework 1.7 Preview Release
Flex Team blog: Russia here we come
Flex Team blog: WebExpo - Czech Republic
Flex Team blog: Adobe at Gitex Technology Week
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): AMP Badges for "Flex In a Week" and "360Flex San Jose 2008"
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Creating a Simple Calculation with FormCalc

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

Flash Authoring blog (Tareq AlJaber): Flash CS4 and Flex Metadata
Flashthusiast (Jen deHann): Looks like you can buy Flash CS4 now
Flashthusiast (Jen deHann): Go download Flash Player 10 update for Flash CS4
Flashthusiast (Jen deHann): Flash Player 10 is out
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Flash Player 10 is now live!!
Penguin.SWF (Mike Melanson): Flash Player 10 Is Live
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Flash Player 10 Final now Public
Emmy Huang: Flash Player 10 has launched!
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): From Fireworks to Flash Player 10 IGraphicsData
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Flash Player 10 Spinning Earth Redeux
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Flash CS4: Animation Workflow Warning
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Nice use of SWFReader: swfversion.com
Mike Chambers: New Flash CS4 and Flash Player 10 Articles online
Mike Chambers: Flash Player 10 Release is Out
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): New Flash CS4 motion editor tutorial
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): flashPitt 2008 Recap

Various posts on the past Flash 10 Camp in San Francisco, as well as some videos from the past 360Flex conference in San Jose:

Flashthusiast (Jen deHann): Flash CS4 files for motion tween presentation at FlashCamp
Flashthusiast (Jen deHann): New motion and Tween instances: Flash CS4 presentation (FlashCamp)
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): FlashCamp: Enhanced Drawing API
Flash 10 Camp blog: Tony's Source
Flash 10 Camp blog: Most Useful: Combine Textfields
Flash 10 Camp blog: Honorable Mention: Kitchen Sink
Flash 10 Camp blog: Best Game: Scream-o-Ball
Flash 10 Camp blog: Most Educational: Sign Language 101
Flash 10 Camp blog: Best Student App: Squishy Map
Flash 10 Camp blog: Coolest App: Surf Alarm Widget
Flash 10 Camp blog: Best Audio: FlashTones
Flash 10 Camp blog: Best Video: VideoCloud
Flash 10 Camp blog: Best In Show: Avenue Fighter
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Data Visualization and Dashboards by Thomas Gonzalez
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - AIR SQLite: an optimization conversa by H. Paul Robertson
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Using Item Renderers in Flex by Mary Mcdonald
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Unraveling hassle of Drag & Drop in AIR by Michael Labriola
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Advanced Analytics for Flex and Flash RIAs by Jim Cheng
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Cairngorm For Beginners by Neil Webb

Today's bonus link comes to us from Renaun Erickson, Flash/Flex Developer on "Pacifica" at Adobe:

Renaun Erickson: Application.application.url in Flash AS3

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Adobe Flash Player 10 is live!

I just noticed that Flash Player 10 (10.0.12.36) is live at http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer/! (Installation instructions)

For more information on Flash Player 10 (codename: Astro), check out the Flash Player homepage, the Flash Player Developer Center, and the "Astro" homepage.

A huge congratulations to everybody on the Flash Player team.

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This Week's Top Posts (10/11)

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

Anirudh Sasikumar: Chunked MD5 Hashing in AS3
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): onFlash.org, Flash Camp, Flash Player 10, and Flash, The Platform
iamdeepa on flex (Deepa Subramaniam): Josh Buhler, Brian Telintelo - See you at MAX!
Matt Chotin: Open Source Contributions and MAX
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): How to set a ComboBox itemEditor dataProvider at runtime
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): FLASH PLAYER 10 : UPDATE YOUR DETECTION
Ethan Malasky: Adobe AIR Supports XSLT
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: The Basics of Form Guides
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Tech Notes: August 23, 2008 – October 5, 2008

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

senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Flash CS4: The Overhead of 3D
kaourantin.net (Tinic Uro): Audio mixing with Pixel Bender
Mike Chambers: Functions, activation objects and 'this' in ActionScript 3
Mike Chambers: Bash Scripts for working with ActionScript 3 in TextMate
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flash CS4 help files now available
Kevin Hoyt: Flash 9-Slice Meets CSS 3

Various posts on the Flash 10 Camp going on Oct 11-12 in San Francisco, CA, as well as some videos from the past 360Flex conference in San Jose:

Mike Chambers: Flash Camp this weekend in San Francisco
Flash 10 Camp blog: FlashCamp Spaces Still Available
Flash 10 Camp blog: Broadcast using Acrobat Connect Pro
Flash 10 Camp blog: How to Get Yours
Flash 10 Camp blog: Contest Categories
Flash 10 Camp blog: Source Code for Justin's Demos
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - I18N: Ortega Doesn't Know It, But You Should by Lief Wells
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Synchronization online and offline with AIR by Ryan Stewart
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Flex and Acrobat by Joel Geraci
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Learning Flex from Scratch (LFFS) by Flater & Sheridan
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Day 3 Keynote with Tom, John and company
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Advanced Video Streaming & Mgmt Techs w/ Flex & Flash by David Hassoun
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - PatchPanel/SwitchBoard: Connect SWF/AIR w/CS apps by Bernd Paradies
Kevin Hoyt: jQuery Conference 2008 Audio

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This Week's Top Posts (10/5)

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

Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Friends Of Ted MAX NA Discount and "Friends of Ted" MAX NA Discount Code: TED888
Flex Team blog: Learn about Flex and Zend at PHP User Groups
Mark Anders' Blog: Flash on the Beach, FXG & SVG
Matt Chotin: I was interviewed by Ryan F****** Stewart!
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Macromedia Site of the Day!
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): NEW Book! Learning Flex 3 - Getting up to Speed with Rich Internet Applications
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: LiveCycle Workspace ES in a nutshell...

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

Flex Tech Note: Flex client's data does not load on creationComplete() (Flex)
Flex Builder Tech Note: Error: "This component is based on Application, which is not a visual component. Switch to source mode to edit it" (Flex Builder)

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

senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): AS3: Layout classes update
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): AS3: SWFReader Class
Flash 10 Camp blog: Seeking Speakers
Flash 10 Camp blog: Get a Free Copy of Flash CS4
Adobe Community Help blog: Today's top stories ...
Mike Chambers: Why Adobe chose FXG over SVG
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flash on the Beach Ronin Sequence
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flash on the Beach 2008 Recap

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This Week's Top Posts (9/28)

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

Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): BUGS.ADOBE.COM --> Flash Player Open Bug Base
Matt Chotin: Flash Player 10 Camp, Register Now!
Flex Doc Team blog: New Community Help blog
Flex Doc Team blog: New server for Flex 3 ASP.NET examples
Flex Team blog: Flex in a Week - Day 4 posted and exercises fixed
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Adding dot leaders to a form

Various posts on upcoming conferences, as well as some videos from the past 360Flex conference in San Jose:

Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Flash 10 Camp in San Francisco! Register now
Matt Chotin: Flash Player 10 Camp, Register Now!
Flash 10 Camp blog: Adobe Flash 10 Camp, Oct. 10-12 in SF and Collecting Links
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): The Ajax Experience Boston Sept 29-Oct 1
Kevin Hoyt: Adobe Does Ajax (Experience)
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Flex in Denmark
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Oracle Open World 2008: Oracle + Flex = Happy Users
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Flex Persistence with Hibernate by Mike Nimer
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Architecting real-time in Flex by Brian Weisenthal

And from our good friends at the Adobe Developer Connection, and the Adobe Labs site:

Adobe Developer Connection: Using Badger for Adobe AIR applications
Adobe Labs blog: Adobe Announces InContext Editing Preview
Adobe Labs blog: Photoshop.com Mobile Beta Released on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Flash Player 10 Beta for Solaris Released on Labs
Adobe Community Help blog: Introducing Adobe Community Help

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

Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Flash 10 Camp in San Francisco! Register now
Penguin.SWF (Mike Melanson): Firefox 3.0.2: The Wmode Fix
Mike Chambers: ActioScript 3 Vector / Array Performance Comparison
Mike Chambers: Video overview of new features in Flash CS4
Mike Chambers: Links for SparkProject.org meeting
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): gotoAndLearn Flash CS4 feature tour
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flash CS4 Actions Panel FAQ
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Want an advanced copy of Flash CS4?

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This Week's Top Posts (9/24)

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

Codedependent (Chet Haase): Flexy: A Flexible AS3 Animation Library
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Video: Sorted Details
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Beta Available: Adobe AIR 1.1 for Linux
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): useWeakReferences:Boolean = false
Flex Team blog: Adobe and Zend Announce Collaboration
Flex Doc Team blog: Calling remoting destinations from Flash or Java applications
Matt Chotin: Help the Flex team create great learning content
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Mashup the NFL
Flex Builder Tech Notes: Update Flex Builder to use the Adobe AIR 1.1 SDK
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Flash Local Content Updater
LiveCycle Doc team: LiveDocs: Demystified
LiveCycle Doc team: Using fragments in a form
Adobe Developer Connection (Alex Kalaidjian): Introduction to hyphenation in Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES Update 1
LiveCycle Doc team: LiveCycle 8.0.1 Service Pack 3 now available
Adobe Developer Connection (Michael Hodgson): A brief introduction to Adobe LiveCycle PDF Generator 3D ES

Various posts on the upcoming Adobe MAX (North America), as well as some videos from the past 360Flex conference in San Jose:

Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): "Thermo" Sessions at MAX
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 30onMAX - The Frugal Businessman by Phillip Kerman
Kevin Hoyt: Ignite Denver and a Cigar BOF at MAX?
Adobe Developer Connection: Register today to attend Mobile and Devices sessions at MAX 2008 North America
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): MAX 2008 Speaker Benefits
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Advanced State management by Troy Gardner
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Reflective Programming by Eric Ko
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Polishing Components for the Unwashed Masses by Josh Tynjala
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Using the Flex Builder 3 Profiler by Jun Heider
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Flash Player 10 (Astro) Preview by Justin Everett-Church
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Diving Deep w/ the Flex Component Lifecycle by Owen & Umbaug
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Building Red5 Applications by Chris Allen

And from our good friends at the Adobe Flex Developer Center, Adobe Developer Connection, and the Adobe Labs site:

Adobe Flex Developer Center (Lee Brimelow): Six reasons to use ActionScript 3.0
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Adobe): SWF searchability FAQ
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Mihai Corlan): Working with Flex and PHP in Eclipse
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Kevin Hoyt): Using Flex styles
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Peter Ent): Understanding Flex itemRenderers – Part 3: Communication
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Chet Haase): Using Flex effects to animate changes in application state
Adobe Developer Connection (Jessica Fewless): Announcing Flash Media Encoding Server
Adobe Labs blog: Adobe AIR for Linux Beta Released on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Flash Player 10 Release Candidate Update Available on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Mars Project Update Released on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Photoshop Camera Raw 4.6 RC Released on Labs
Adobe Labs blog: Photoshop Lightroom 2.1 RC Released on Labs

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

senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): UML to ActionScript 3.0 Update + Tutorial
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Dollar Sign ($) in ActionScript Identifiers? It's a No-no
Galvan on Flash (Richard Galvan): Flash Player 10 features video
Galvan on Flash (Richard Galvan): Flash CS4 for President!
Flashthusiast (Jen Dehann): The new way of tweening in Flash CS4 (or: New motion in Flash CS4 makes your animations better, faster, stronger)
Flashthusiast (Jen Dehann): Flash CS4: The photo tour of features
Mike Chambers: Adobe AIR 1.5 ("Cosmo") builds now in Flex SDK Nightly builds
Mike Chambers: URLLoader subclass with automatic refresh support
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Video of me integrating PHP and Flex
Mike Chambers: Adobe AIR for Linux Beta is live
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): New video tutorial on ActionScript 3 preloading
Mike Chambers: Creating Re-distributable ActionScript Libraries of Pixel Bender Filters
Mike Chambers: Pixel Bender TV Scanline Filter
Mike Chambers: Pixel Bender Grayscale Filter
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): An overview of ZendAMF
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flash Player 10 Text Ligatures Demo
Mike Chambers: New Adobe AIR T-shirt created by eboy
Mike Chambers: Adobe Flash CS4 Announced

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This Week's Top Posts (9/9)

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

Flex Team blog: Awesome Flex and AIR Apps for Students
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Plug-in Performance - SWF or Flash Player?
Alex's Flex Closet (Alex Harui): Using the Flex Builder 3.x Profiler
Flex Team blog: Updated RSL for Flex Data Visualization 3.0.1
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): How to get a custom cursor in an AIR Window
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Thinking in Flex with Bruce Eckel
Anirudh Sasikumar: Firefox Ubiquity Command for Flex and Flash Developers
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): "BX" - My hobby AS3 framework and "BX" - Initial event list
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Integrating Flex and JSF with Exadel Fiji
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Internal Alpha build of AIR scores 100/100 on ACID3 Tests
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Linking Flex Project and LCDS configuration files (video)
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Invoking PHP functions from Flex using AMFPHP
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Securing BlazeDS destinations using custom Tomcat REALM authentication
Flex Doc Team blog: BlazeDS doc updated
Flex Doc Team blog: Using BlazeDS with Maven
LiveCycle Doc Team blog: Correction for Workbench ES Help: Multiple instances synchronization

Various posts on the upcoming Adobe MAX (North America) and mx:devsummit conferences, as well as some videos from the past 360Flex conference in San Jose:

Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): MAX NA Early Bird Registration extended til Sept 15!
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): WikiDot Flex Geeks - your community window to get discounts for mx:devsummit
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Do you want to do a Flex/AIR Demo in mx:devsummit ?
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Free passes for Academia for mx:devsummit
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Demo your Flex/AIR applications at Adobe RIA summit
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Free passes for Academia for Adobe RIA Developer Summit
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Presentation: Filthy Rich [Flex] Clients
Matt Chotin: See the 360Flex San Jose Video
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Exploring the Open Source Flex SDK by Matt Chotin
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Filthy Rich Flex Clients by Chet Haase
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - High Definition Video & Flex Hands On by Christopher Keeler
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - PlexiGlass (OpenFlux 3D Components) by Ryan Campbell
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Introduction to the Swiz Framework for Flex by Chris Scott
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Mate Flex Framework by Laura Arguello
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Flex on Rails with RubyAMF by Tony Hillerson
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - How to Build a Framework by Ben Stucki
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Case Study of An Internal Flex App At Yahoo! by Hien Luu & Subhadeep Chatterjee
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Advanced ActionScript APIs by Jacob Wright
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - E4X by Marc Bir
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Flex and ColdFusion Using VO's and CFC's by Kevin Schmidt
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Flex and Accessibility by Giorgio Natili
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Project Workflow by Axel Jensen
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): 360Flex SJ 2008 - Reading the Flex source code by Jonathan Branam

And from our good friends at the Adobe Flex Developer Center and Adobe Developer Connection:

Adobe Flex Developer Center (Areez Gangji): Top 10 Adobe Flex and AIR applications for students
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Igor Polevoy): Integrating Flex with Seam using Flamingo
Adobe Developer Connection (Dan Carr): Creating your first ActionScript 3.0 class
Adobe Developer Connection (Stephanie Legault): Using dot leaders in LiveCycle Designer ES Update 1
Adobe Developer Connection (Lutz Albrecht): Integrating 3D applications with After Effects - Part 1: Working with UV data and Integrating 3D applications with After Effects - Part 2: Working with mattes and channels

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

senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): New UML to ActionScript 3.0 Source Generation Template
kaourantin.net (Tinic Uro): On Performance
kaourantin.net (Tinic Uro): Pixel Bender .pbj files
Flashthusiast (Jen Dehann): (Flash CS3) Masking using "donut" shapes within movie clips or with AS3 - it's possible, and not too bad either
Mike Chambers: ActionScript 3 API Service on Google App Engine
Mike Chambers: Embedding Pixel Bender Filters within a SWF
Mike Chambers: Using Pixel Bender Filters within Flex
Mike Chambers: Encapsulating Custom Pixel Bender Filters in ActionScript 3
Mike Chambers: Using Custom Pixel Bender Filter Classes in MXML
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Adobe will announce CS4 on September 23rd!
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Tinic Uro on Flash Player Performace
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): ActionScript 3 Arc Drawing Class
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): ActionScript 3 Wedge Drawing Class
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): My First Pixel Bender Filter (SquarePattern)
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): New video tutorial on using Pixel Bender
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Second Pixel Bender tutorial is now live
gotoAndLearn() (Lee Brimelow): Introduction to Pixel Bender 1
gotoAndLearn() (Lee Brimelow): Introduction to Pixel Bender 2

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This Week's Top Posts (8/29)

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

Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): MAX NA Early Bird Registration Ends in 6 Days and MAX NA EARLY BIRD DEADLINE - SUNDAY AUG 31
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Coming Soon : Adobe Flex Developer Event in Bangalore (with a free Flex Builder license for attendees)
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Presenting mx:devsummit Bangalore
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): The early bird catches the discount - mx:devsummit registrations open.
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: RIA Developer Summit in Bangalore. Register early and get discount
Sujit Reddy G - The Evangelist: Adobe Flex Developer Event (Free Flex Builder License for attendees)
Anirudh Sasikumar: mx:devsummit Bangalore and Flexbot on IRC
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Hello FlexBot!
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): See the Data, Be the Data by Tony Hillerson & Juan Sanchez
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Diving in the Data Binding Waters with Michael Labriola
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): The 360Flex "Sessions" Video Project
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Creating Reusable Components by Ben Clinkinbeard
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Ticketmaster Kiosk by Kevin Fauth
Renaun Erickson: TestPoint example files
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Flex Data Binding Performance Pitfall
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Search Me: Code for SearchTransition
Flex Team blog: Flex and PHP Training Now Available
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Podcast about Adobe AIR, Flex and BlazeDS / LCDS
Tom Jordahl's musings: Invoking Flash remoting requests using the Java AMF Library
Tom Jordahl's musings: BlazeDS HTML LiveDocs updated
Damon Cooper: Using Flex SDK 3.1 with BlazeDS and LCDS 2.6
Damon Cooper: Flex Developers: BlazeDS Livedocs HTML Now Updated

And from our good friends at the Adobe Developer Connection (as well as a couple Flex SDK and Flex Builder Tech Notes):

Adobe Developer Connection (Lisa Larson): Flash 411: Getting your video questions answered
Adobe Developer Connection (Peter Albert, Michael Labriola): Distributing AIR in the enterprise
Flex TechNote: Flex does not refresh Web service data in Internet Explorer
Flex Builder TechNote: Flex Builder UI returns incorrect height for the UIComponent

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

Emmy Huang: Two! Four! Six! Eight! Numbers we appreciate!
Robert Penner on Flash: A job change for me: joining Club Penguin
Robert Penner on Flash: New build of FlashDevelop 3 released: Beta 8
Mike Chambers: Using Vectors in ActionScript 3 and Flash Player 10
Mike Chambers: Flash Player 10 Security Changes
Mike Chambers: Reading and Writing Local Files in Flash Player 10
Mike Chambers: Everything there is to know about Flex 4 / Gumbo
Mike Chambers: New Adobe AIR Book Language Translations
Mike Chambers: Getting started with Flex 4 FXG and Flex Builder 3
Mike Chambers: Defining and Reusing Symbols in Flex 4 FXG
Mike Chambers: Data Binding with FXG in Flex 4
Daniel Dura: AOL Embraces Flash with AIM Express
Daniel Dura: Have you registered for MAX?
Daniel Dura: Wordpress Comment Moderator AIR Application
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flash Player 10 FileReference Changes
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flash Forward 2008 Conference Report
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): Flash Player 10 Dynamic Sound Slider
The Flash Blog (Lee Brimelow): New issue of Flash and Flex Developer Magazine

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This Week's Top Posts (8/18)

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

Adobe Labs blog: Feedback Requested for Adobe Labs Website
Flex Doc Team blog: Seeking feedback on Labs
Flex Doc Team blog: RoboHelp Packager for AIR
Adobe Labs blog: Flash Player 10 Release Candidate Available on Labs
Flex Doc Team blog: Flex Builder 3 Extensibility API Reference
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Do you want to provide Flex Training?
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): MAX Early Bird Pricing - 19 Days Left!
Matt Chotin: Another opportunity for a free MAX pass
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Want to be in the MAX keynote? "30onMAX"
Matt Chotin: Get yourself in the MAX Keynote!
Deepa Subramaniam: More Gumbo Specs Posted!
Flex Team blog: This week's Gumbo specs posted
Flex Doc Team blog: More Specs Available for Gumbo (the Next Version of Flex)
Kevin Hoyt: GreenSock Transform Manager (AS3)
Flex Doc Team blog: Open invitation to join the Flex Learning Advisors
Adobe Labs blog: Flex Builder Linux Alpha 4 Released on Labs
Flex Doc Team blog: Check out the LiveCycle Doc Team Blog
Kevin Hoyt: Building a Basic IP Address Service
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: The Flex Show Episode 50: Interview with James Ward and Bruce Eckel
LiveCycle Doc team: How to generate an XML schema for an existing form
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): The Magic of the Marshall Plan
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): FantasticContraption.com

And from our good friends at the Flex Developer Center and Adobe Developer Connection (as well as a few Flex Builder Tech Notes):

Adobe Developer Connection (Michael Koch): Announcing the Adobe AIR Cookbook Cook-off
Adobe Developer Connection (Justin Everett-Church): Introducing Flash Player 10 beta
Adobe Developer Connection (Justin Everett-Church): Working with policy file changes in Flash Player 9 and Flash Player 10 beta
Adobe Developer Connection (Trevor McCauley): Understanding the security changes in Flash Player 10 beta
Adobe Developer Connection (Jonathan Tabak): Building advertising experiences for Adobe Media Player
Flex Builder Tech Note: Flex Builder 3.x not supported with 64 bit Java 1.6 on Mac OS X
Flex Builder Tech Note: Flex Builder crashes or will not start up

And from our friends on the Flash Player team:

Penguin.SWF (Mike Melanson): 10rc
Penguin.SWF (Mike Melanson): Secrets Of The mms.cfg File
Penguin.SWF (Mike Melanson): Windowless Mode Fix

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This Week's Top Posts Blogroll

Somebody recently asked me which Flex blogs I subscribed to for my "This Week's Top Posts" posts. So I spent a few minutes trolling through my Google Reader feeds and came up with this list. Enjoy.

Flex SDK/Flex Builder/LiveCycle/Etc.:

Alex Harui: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui/
Chet Haase: http://graphics-geek.blogspot.com/
Clement Wong: http://stopcoding.wordpress.com/
David Zuckerman: http://davidzuckerman.com/adobe
Deepa Subramaniam: http://iamdeepa.com/blog
Ely Greenfield: http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog
Flex Doc Team blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/
Flex Team blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/
Gordon Smith: http://blogs.adobe.com/gosmith/
Harish Sivaramakrishnan: http://flexgeek.wordpress.com/
James Ward: http://www.jamesward.com/wordpress
Joan Lafferty: http://butterfliesandbugs.wordpress.com/
Kevin Hoyt: http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/
Mac Martine: http://www.macmartine.com/blog/
Mark Anders: http://www.andersblog.com/
Matt Chotin: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mchotin/
Mike Morearty: http://www.morearty.com/blog
Mike Potter: http://blogs.adobe.com/mikepotter/
Narciso "nj" Jaramillo: http://www.rictus.com/muchado
Pete Farland: http://blogs.adobe.com/pfarland/
Peter deHaan: http://blog.flexexamples.com/ and http://blogs.adobe.com/pdehaan/
Peter Ent: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/
Prayank Swaroop: http://www.prayank.net/flexblog
Raghu Rao: http://raghuonflex.wordpress.com/
Rob Adams: http://usereccentric.com/
Ryan Frishberg: http://frishy.blogspot.com/
Scott Evans: http://gettingandsetting.com/
Sreenivas Ramaswamy: http://flexpearls.blogspot.com/
Ted Patrick: http://www.onflex.org/ted/
Tim Buntel: http://www.buntel.com/blog/index.cfm
Tom Jordahl: http://tjordahl.blogspot.com/

Flash Authoring/Flash Player:

Emmy Huang: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/
Francis Cheng: http://blogs.adobe.com/fcheng/
Paul Robertson: http://probertson.com/
Jen deHann: http://flashthusiast.com/
Justin Everett-Church: http://justin.everett-church.com/
Ken Toley: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/ktoley/
Mike Melanson: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/
Richard Galvan: http://blogs.adobe.com/rgalvan/
Rob Dixon: http://rantworld.blogs.com/flashlit/
Robert Penner: http://robertpenner.com/flashblog/
Tinic Uro: http://www.kaourantin.net/
Trevor McCauley: http://www.senocular.com/

Adobe Developer Connection, Flex Developer Center, Flex TechNotes, Flex Builder Tech Notes:

Adobe Developer Connection: http://feeds.feedburner.com/developer_center_tutorials
Adobe Flex Developer Center: http://feeds.feedburner.com/developer_center_flex_tutorials
Flex - Recent Documents: http://rss.adobe.com/www/support/recent/recent_flex.xml
Flex - Top Issues: http://rss.adobe.com/www/support/top/top_flex.xml
Flex Builder - Recent Documents: http://rss.adobe.com/www/support/recent/recent_fb.xml
Flex Builder - Top Issues: http://rss.adobe.com/www/support/top/top_flex_builder.xml

And remember, my "Top Posts" updates only include Adobe employee blogs. I still read and enjoy dozens of other blogs from various Flex developers. If you think I've omitted an Adobe Flex, AIR, Thermo, Flash Authoring, or Flash Player blog (by Adobe employees only), leave a comment and I'll update this list add the link to my Google Reader.

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New Flash Player 10 (codename: Astro) build posted on labs.adobe.com

The Flash Player team posted a release candidate version of Flash Player 10 to the labs.adobe.com site, http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/. which includes some new features and bug fixes.

So download the latest version from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html, check out the beta release notes, and don't forget to uninstall any versions of the Flash Player before updating your installation.

Plus. after installing the latest version of Flash Player 10: Astro, why not check out the Flex Gumbo beta! There are a few examples of downloading and installing the Gumbo beta SDK over at blog.flexexamples.com.

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This Week's Top Posts (8/9)

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

Flex Team blog: Upgrade now and get your August 2008 Flex t-shirt
Kevin Hoyt: Flex Builder Data Wizard and PHP
Alex's Flex Closet (Alex Harui): DataGrid ItemEditor with Two Input Fields
Alex's Flex Closet (Alex Harui): DataGrid With PopUp Editor
iamdeepa on flex (Deepa Subramaniam): Adobe Flex 3.0 for Dummies: Released!
Codedependent (Chet Haase): SpringItem
Flex Team blog: Flex 3 Wins Best of Open Source Award
Kevin Hoyt: Visualizing Contacts in a Card Layout
Matt Chotin: Cairngorm now on opensource.adobe.com
Tom Jordahl's musings: New Java AMF Client feature in BlazeDS
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Atlanta JUG and Chicago Flex and AIR Developers Group
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Balsamiq Mockups
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): MAX 2008: Adobe Roadmap Sessions

And from our friends on the Flash Player team:

Penguin.SWF (Mike Melanson): Library Expansion

And from our good friends at the Flex Developer Center and Adobe Developer Connection (as well as a few Flex Builder TechNotes):

Flex Builder TechNote: Flex Builder 2 RemoteObject calls to ColdFusion 8 CFCs fail
Flex Builder TechNote: Flex Builder 3 generates invalid ActionScript when creating an ActionScript Class with a default string-type argument
Flex Builder TechNote: Flex Builder 3 generates invalid ActionScript when creating an ActionScript Class with a default string-type argument
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Bill Bejeck): Integrating a simple Flex search application with Grails
Adobe Developer Connection (Scott MacDonald): Using Java servlets to invoke LiveCycle ES processes
Adobe Developer Connection (Sarthak Singhal): Improved 9-slice scaling in Fireworks CS4 beta
Adobe Developer Connection (Vijay Ghaskadvi): Referencing external ad packages in AMODs using SMIL-in-SMIL and XSL
Adobe Developer Connection (Steven Webster, Leon Tanner): Developing Flex RIAs with Cairngorm microarchitecture – Part 5: Server-side integration
Adobe Developer Connection (Steven Webster, Leon Tanner): Developing Flex RIAs with Cairngorm microarchitecture – Part 6: Rapid and consistent development with Cairngorm and Flex

Posted by Peter deHaan at 12:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This Week's Top Posts (7/23)

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

iamdeepa on flex (Deepa Subramaniam): Gumbo Unveiled
Flex Team blog: More Information on Next Version of Flex SDK
flexgeek (Harish Sivaramakrishnan): Gumbo is here!
Flex Doc Team blog: Learn About Gumbo: The Next Version of Flex
Kevin Hoyt: Weighing in on Flash Mapping APIs
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: The RIA Puzzle: Shaping the Future of the Internet with Adobe Platform Technologies
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Learning Resources.pdf
iamdeepa on flex (Deepa Subramaniam): Speaking about Halo/Gumbo development at MAX 2008
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): An Adobe Evangelist's Day out at a Silverlight Training
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Springtime
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Upcoming Conference Presentations: GeoWeb, OSCON, and LinuxWorld
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Video: Flex and Java
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Video: Flex Best Practices
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): PopUpButton Bugs in Flex 3 Fixed in Stable Nightly Builds
much ado about something (Narciso (nj) Jaramillo): Snackr v0.38 TEST: Google Reader integration is here!
Rob Adams's User Eccentric: Snackr Sinks Its Teeth Into Google Reader
Matt Chotin: Draft documentation for Flash Accessibility
Flex Doc Team blog: Draft Documentation for Flex and Flash Accessibility
Flex Doc Team blog: Flex Gumbo API Reference available
Flex Team blog: Gumbo Docs and Specs pushed this week
Flex Doc Team blog: LiveCycle Data Services ES 2.6 documentation
Tom Jordahl's musings: AIR Data Synchronization via LiveCycle Data Services ES 2.6

And from our friends on the Flash Player team:

Penguin.SWF (Mike Melanson): Paparazzi v2
Francis Cheng: Colin Moock's Charges Against ActionScript 3.0
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): JSFL Command: Replace associated class text

And from our good friends at the Flex Developer Center and Adobe Developer Connection (as well as a couple Flex Builder TechNotes):

Adobe Flex Developer Center (Adobe Customer Training/Partner Enablement Group): Introducing Cairngorm
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Zee Yang): Building web service clients with Flex Builder 3
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Marcel Boucher): Content rich vs content managed applications using LiveCycle Content Services ES
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Marco Casario): Flex solutions excerpt: Working with remote data using the RPC classes
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Sebastien Arbogast): The Flex, Spring and BlazeDS full stack – Part 3: Putting the application together
Adobe Developer Connection (Jeff Stanier): What's new in Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES Update 1
Adobe Developer Connection (Desiree Motamedi): Introducing Adobe Media Player 1.1
Flex Builder TechNote: No Disk Error on Non DVD installation (Flex Builder 3)
Flex Builder TechNote: Compilation results from Flex Builder and Flex Ant Tasks are Different

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This Week's Top Posts (7/14)

It looks like I forgot my weekly post last week, so this week's update will be twice as big. Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and Adobe AIR teams:

Mark Anders' Blog: A New Approach to Searching Flash
Flex Team blog: Contribute to the Flex SDK
Peter Ent: Adobe Reader 9 is Here!
Tom Jordahl's musings: Using WSDL2Java to figure out CFML arguments to a Web Service
Tom Jordahl's musings: Special Axis types and ColdFusion
Flex Team blog: More Flex Camps This Summer ...
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Fixing Menus in Full Screen Mode
Pete's Blog (Peter Farland): Targeting XMLSchema subtypes for anonymous ActionScript Objects
Matt Chotin: Suggested Projects related to Flex
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Thinking in Flex Presentation from JavaPolis 2007 is Online
Kevin Hoyt: Session Recordings from WebVisions 2008
Matt Chotin: Learn about the future of Flex at MAX 2008
Flex Team blog: Flex 360 in San Jose - 40 Days Away
Matt Chotin: Floorplanner, a cool Flash and now Flex/Papervision app
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): ADC on AMP - A great resource for Flex Developers
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: My Adobe MAX 2008 Talk
Flex Team blog: Advanced Data Visualization with ILOG Elixir
Flex Team blog: Introducing the new Flex.org
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Article & Videos on Integrating Flex and Java
Peter Ent: (re)Genesis
Flex Doc Team blog: Customizing the layout of legend items
Matt Chotin: Awesome branding experience done partly in Flex!
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Spring is in the AIR?
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Learn Cairngorm and PureMVC frameworks for Flex at Adobe San Francisco - July 17 6PM-9:30PM
Tom Jordahl's musings: Setting optional parameters in the SMS Gateway

And from our friends on the Flash Player team:

Penguin.SWF (Mike Melanson): Turkish Localization! ... also Wmode, V4L2
kaourantin.net (Tinic Uro): Adobe Flash Player 10 pre-release refresh
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Flash Player 10 beta refresh (10.0.0.525)
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Flash Player 10 (Astro) Beta 2
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Microsoft's response to runtime search
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): FP9@ 97%, Flash Player 9 update 3 at 82%
Penguin.SWF (Mike Melanson): Addessing Wmode Crashes
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Compiler available for Astro beta refresh

And from our good friends at the Flex Developer Center and Developer Connection:

Adobe Flex Developer Center (Paulo Caroli, Henrik Lindahl): Writing and running functional tests for Flash with Selenium RC
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Adobe): Customer story: AIR-NASDAQ Market Replay
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Sean Moore): Flex best practices – Part 1: Setting up your Flex project
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Greg Goralski, LordAlex Leon): Foundation Flex for Designers excerpt: Flex with Photoshop and Illustrator
Flex Builder TechNote: Cannot enter serial number(s) in the Manage Flex Builder Licenses window (Flex Builder 3)

Finally, today's bonus link comes to us from the Official Google Blog:

Official Google Blog: Google learns to crawl Flash

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This Week's Top Posts (6/2)

A collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and Flash Player teams:

Codedependent (Chet Haase): Splinterview
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Filty Rich [Flex] Clients on June 3rd
prayank.mxml (Prayank Swaroop): Data synchronization patterns in Flex applications
Pearls of Flex (Sreenivas Ramaswamy): Object/Array and ObjectProxy/ArrayCollection binding problems
Pearls of Flex (Sreenivas Ramaswamy): Grouping XML data using GroupingCollection
Pearls of Flex (Sreenivas Ramaswamy): Here is a GroupingCollection with good performance !
Tom Jordahl's musings: MAX 2008 registration is now open
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: MAX 2008 - Full of Flex Goodness
Peter Ent: Registration Open for MAX 2008
Peter Ent: itemEditors - Part 1
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): The Adobe walled garden of knowledge
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): CURL BenchMarketing
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): YSlow Tuning onFlex.org - F(31) to B(81) in an hour
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Native Image Encoding API's - BitmapData to ByteArray (PNG,JPG)
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Julian Payne, and Christophe Jolif): ILOG Elixir: Your remedy for vibrant data visualization

And from our friends on the Flash Player team:

Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Peer to Peer (P2P) in Flash Player 10 beta
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Soundbooth - all CS4, all now on Labs
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Flash Player Mac Uninstaller on Adobe Labs
Penguin.SWF (Mike Melanson): Flash Uses The GPU

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Flash Player 10 Peer to Peer (P2P) FAQ

Justin Everett-Church (Sr. Product Manager for Adobe Flash Player), posted an excellent FAQ for Peer to Peer communication in the Flash Player 10 beta, "Peer to Peer (P2P) in Flash Player 10 beta".

Head on over and find out the answers to the following:

Does Flash Player 10 beta support Peer to Peer (P2P) communication?
How will I make a P2P connection through Flash Player 10 beta?
What can I send through the P2P connection?
How does the peer connection work?
Can I choose between UDP and TCP?
Will RTMFP enable massive file-sharing applications through Flash Player 10 beta?
Can I get started with RTMFP now?

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This Week's Top Posts (5/23)

A sampling of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and LiveCycle teams:

Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): No news is good news!
much ado about something (Narciso (nj) Jaramillo): Snackr: Randomness goes viral
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Google Maps Flash API - Distributed components/services
iamdeepa on flex (Deepa Subramaniam): Where have I been?
Tom Jordahl's musings: Offline sync sample application
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): ILOG Elixir - OEM Licensing Changes!!!
Kevin Hoyt: Data Push with CFTHREAD and LiveCycle DS
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): FlexJobs hits 1000 subscribers
Matt Chotin: Create Flash Player 10 (Astro) content with the Flex SDK
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Adobe AIR vs Microsoft Silverlight
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Mauricio Pacheco): Using Oracle EPG to provide XML services for Adobe Flex applications

And from the fine folks on the Flash Player team:

kaourantin.net (Tinic Uro): Adobe Pixel Bender in Flash Player 10 Beta
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Flash Player 10: Language Reference (API Documentation)

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Today's Top Posts (5/16)

Ah, seems like just yesterday I posted This Week's Top Posts (5/15). Here we are, 24 hours later and there have been several excellent posts by the fine folks on the Flex, Flex Builder, and Flash Player teams. So, if you're looking for some good weekend reading, here you go:

James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Where is 64-bit Linux support for Flash Player?
Flex Team blog: Flex Cookbook - new book & updated site
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Why don't my deprecated styles work in Flex 3
much ado about something (Narciso (nj) Jaramillo): Snackr on twitter; new test version for non-Western languages and Snackr v0.33 released!

Not to be outdone, the Flash Player team blogged the following in the past twenty-four hours:

senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Flash Player 10: New Drawing API Features Explained
Francis Cheng: ECMAScript 4 Object Initializers and Type Annotations
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): RTMFP in Flash Player 10 beta
kaourantin.net (Tinic Uro): What does GPU acceleration mean?

Today's bonus link comes to us from Clement Wong, former compiler engineering lead on the Flex SDK team:

Stop Coding! (Clement Wong): The Flex Compiler API... RPC Style!

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Adobe releases Flash Player 10 beta (codename: Astro) on Labs

In case you haven't heard the news, the Flash Player team released a beta version of Flash Player 10 on the Adobe Labs site today: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Astro

For more information, see the Flash Player 10 technology page at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

Key New Features:

3D Effects
Custom Filters and Effects
Advanced Text Layout
Enhanced Drawing API
Visual Performance Improvements

You can download the Flash Player 10/Astro beta from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html.

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This Week's Top Posts (4/11)

Here is a list of some of the various blog posts from the Flex SDK and Flex Builder team's blogs that I've been reading over the past week:

Kevin Hoyt: JavaScript for Tabular Data with Flash CS3 and AIR
Pearls of Flex (Sreenivas Ramaswamy): Writing a Custom Aggregator for Flex OLAP, Custom Aggregator sample for Flex OLAP, and Using Flex OLAP/OLAPDataGrid for doing Pivoting computations
Flex Team blog: New Pivot Component in Alpha
Matt Chotin: More testing support for Flex from Borland
Tom Jordahl's musings: BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services Channels, Sweet Flex and BlazeDS sample application, Another Flex and BlazeDS demo application, and LiveCycle Data Services 2.6 Public Beta
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Flash Player Public Bug and Enhancement Database is now online!
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Adobe MAX has a new URL: MAX.ADOBE.COM (Reminder: MAX 2008 North America will be held in sunny San Francisco, November 16-19, 2008! You can also catch MAX 2008 Europe in Milan, Italy from December 1-4, 2008, and MAX 2008 Japan in Tokyo, Japan in 2009)
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): DARE 1.0 BETA (MAC) - The Adobe AIR Development Web Server
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Bursting Bubbles
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Off the [Bubble]Mark
Matt Chotin: Flex and AIR books abound!
Flex Team blog: Info on our first Flex 4 theme

And as an added bonus, here are a few good posts I found from various members of the Flash Player team:

Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Flash Player 9.0.124 live
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Flash Player Update Now Available (Flash Player 9,0,124,0)
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Where is the Debug Flash Player 9.0.124?
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Flash Player Needs Your Vote
Francis Cheng: Flash Player Public Bugbase Introduced
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Allowing Headers in crossdomain.xml
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): AIF Toolkit Refresh on Adobe Labs
Flash Player Developer Center (Trevor McCauley & Edwin Wong): Introducing the Flash Player bug and issue management system
Flash Player Developer Center (Adobe): Understanding Flash Player 9 April 2008 Security Update compatibility

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Adobe releases Flash Player 9,0,124,0

Flash Player 9,0,124,0 is now available for download! For more information, see Justin Everett-Church's blog entry, Flash Player 9.0.124 live, and Preparing for Flash Player 9 April 2008 Security Update/

Also, the Flash Player team is using the JIRA bug base, https://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/. For more information, Justin Everett-Church's blog entry, Flash Player Needs Your Vote.

If you haven't used the Adobe Bug Base before (it is currently used for Flex and Blaze DS, mostly), you can find an excellent overview here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/tmccauley_fplayer_bugbase.html.

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Installing and uninstalling Adobe Flash Player

Here are a few useful little Flash Player links I've come across in the past week or so:

And this is a really useful mini-portal for Flash Player: http://www.playerversion.com/

Hopefully that helps somebody else out there... Happy coding!

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Adobe Flash Player 9 Update 3 (aka: "Moviestar", aka: "9,0,115,0") now available

In case you've missed the news yesterday/today, Adobe has released a new version of Flash Player for Win/Mac/Linus.

Check out Emmy Huang's blog, Justin Everett-Church's blog and Tinic Uro's blog for more details, as well as the official Press Release.

Also, don't forget about the Flash Player Developer Center, and I'm told that you can find an updated version of the ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/.

Whew!

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Updated Flash Player 9 Beta for Macintosh posted on Adobe Labs

I just saw this over on the Adobe Labs blog, Flash Player 9 Update Release Candidate for Mac Refresh Now Available.

If you are running a previous version of Flash Player on the Macintosh, I recommend downloading the latest version of Flash Player (9.0.98.0) from Adobe Labs. If you haven't tried the latest beta of Flash Player on Windows, Macintosh, or Linux, head on over to Labs and take a look. The latest version of Flash Player, codenamed "Moviestar", includes a lot of great things, including this snippet which I'll copy-paste to save typing:

Support for H.264 video and HE-AAC audio codecs. Multi-core support for vector rendering. Full screen mode with hardware scaling. Flash Player cache for common platform components, such as the Flex framework. Support for Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) in the Windows plug-in.

Adobe Labs - Flash Player 9 Update

You can also find more information on the latest Macintosh update over on Emmy Huang's site, "Mac update for Moviestar on Adobe Labs to fix FileReference issue".

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Confessions of a Flex QA

September 30, 2009

BETA ActionScript 3.0 Reference for the Adobe Flash Platform released on help.adobe.com

July 31, 2009

Adobe releases Flash Player 10,0,32,18

June 7, 2009

This Two Week's Top Posts (6/7)

May 17, 2009

This Week's Top Posts (5/17)

March 14, 2009

This Week's Top Posts (3/14)

March 3, 2009

Adobe Flash Player 9.0.159.0 available on adobe.com

February 24, 2009

Adobe Flash Player 10.0.22.87 available on adobe.com

This Week's Top Posts (2/24)

February 6, 2009

This Week's Top Posts (2/6)

December 22, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (12/22)

November 21, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (11/21)

November 16, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (11/16)

October 30, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (10/30)

October 17, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (10/17)

October 14, 2008

Adobe Flash Player 10 is live!

October 11, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (10/11)

October 5, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (10/5)

September 28, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (9/28)

September 24, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (9/24)

September 9, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (9/9)

August 29, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (8/29)

August 18, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (8/18)

August 13, 2008

This Week's Top Posts Blogroll

New Flash Player 10 (codename: Astro) build posted on labs.adobe.com

August 10, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (8/9)

July 23, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (7/23)

July 14, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (7/14)

June 2, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (6/2)

May 25, 2008

Flash Player 10 Peer to Peer (P2P) FAQ

May 23, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (5/23)

May 16, 2008

Today's Top Posts (5/16)

May 15, 2008

Adobe releases Flash Player 10 beta (codename: Astro) on Labs

April 11, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (4/11)

April 9, 2008

Adobe releases Flash Player 9,0,124,0

February 19, 2008

Installing and uninstalling Adobe Flash Player

December 4, 2007

Adobe Flash Player 9 Update 3 (aka: "Moviestar", aka: "9,0,115,0") now available

November 2, 2007

Updated Flash Player 9 Beta for Macintosh posted on Adobe Labs