Many of you have been asking us publically and privately for latest builds of Cairngorm, and of updates to Cairngormstore, and we've been a bit quiet as to the progress we were making....breaking the silence, I'm now pleased to be able to tell you in a public forum that our behind-the-scenes efforts have been instead focussed on getting Cairngorm approved and ready for a forthcoming release on Adobe Labs.
Almost since the day we became Macromedia Consulting (and then Adobe Consulting), we've been working with the various internal teams at Adobe, from the Flex product team, through to our consulting teams, legal, finance, and all manner of other stakeholders to ensure that we could find a new permanent home for Cairngorm on Adobe Labs.
Don't ask me dates, as we can't reveal anything concrete. Aiming for first half of the year...
What this means for Cairngorm developers everywhere, is that we'll have a top-level project on Adobe Labs, with a Wiki offering an ever-increasing amount of documentation, samples, links to Cairngorm articles, as well as the very latest builds of Cairngorm 2 itself. Many of you have been building your own sample applications with Cairngorm, creating your own documentation, diagrams and tutorials, and we'll have an environment where we can now make these more readily accessible to the wider community.
In the coming days, I'll blog a little more about some of the changes we've made to the final release of Cairngorm 2 that you'll receive shortly. And relax -- any migration efforts on your part, if you've been with us this far, will be minimal. We have taken on-board the feedback the community has been giving us, along with our own field-level experience from our consulting teams, who have been busily developing Flex 2 applications upon Cairngorm 2, on behalf of a number of Adobe Consulting customers.
I trust this news signifies the continuing and increasing committment that we're making to Cairngorm, and our continuing ambition within Adobe Consulting to make our internal best-practices instantly and freely available to the current and future RIA development community.
It will be nice to have a home for Cairngorm. Looking forward to the updates and seeing it on labs.
Bring it on Webster! - right in the middle of a flex 2/cairngorm project, and hoping it's ships before my app is due!
Keep up the great work
Hi Steven. Where did the name "Cairngorm" come from? Also, out of curiosity, what platform/IDE/plugins do you typically use for writing your Flex apps?