Jul 30th, 2008
The Adobe Developer Connection now has over 5 hours of Flex training videos available for viewing and even more videos coming soon! Here is a quick copy/paste of available videos: Comparing Flash, Flex, Flash Player and AIR; Introducing Flex Builder; Creating a Flex Builder workspace and project; Using pre-built Flex controls; Understanding MXML; Binding data [...]
Jul 28th, 2008
Adobe MAX 2008 is gearing up to be a great event this year with hundreds of great sessions on everything Adobe. As you would expect, there are a lot of sessions on media design, creative products, video, etc., but did you know that there are many sessions specifically for enterprise business application developers? Adobe [...]
Jul 28th, 2008
Flex.org has been upgraded to a new look with new features, many of which are community focused. If you are new to Flex.org, don’t miss the Flex showcase! More information about the new features can be found at http://www.flex888.com/732/the-new-flexorg.html The menu bar across the top says a lot about the new features
Jul 28th, 2008
Two weeks ago, I blogged about “AIR for Flash Developers” on Lynda.com. This week, another great video series has been added — “AIR for Flex Developers” by David Gassner. You can view the first few chapters for free.
Jul 18th, 2008
Documentation for the recently released LiveCycle Data Services 2.6 is now available here. API documentation is available for Java classes (Javadoc-format) and ActionScript classes (ASDoc-format). More information about the improvements in the documentation is available on the Flex Documentation Team Blog. Release notes can be found here. More information about LiveCycle DS 2.6 can be [...]
Jul 14th, 2008
The Adobe MAX 2008 site has tons of great information about MAX including a cool session locater/browser but sometimes it’s nice to have everything on one page. MAX 2008 Session List in HTML format MAX 2008 Session List in Excel format with auto-filters As the manager of the LiveCycle developer sessions, I have access to [...]
Jul 12th, 2008
UPDATE – 08/24/2009: New Component Explorer here (now includes Flex 4, AIR 2 and mobile samples!) If you are new to Flex or if you are just curious about the capabilities of Flex, the Flex 3 Component Explorer is a great place to learn by example. Click on a component in the list, see a [...]
Jul 11th, 2008
David Tucker announced today on his blog that his new Lynda.com series, AIR for Flash Developers is now available on Lynda.com’s online training library (and soon to be released on DVD). You can view several of the tutorials for free. If you are a flash developer with ActionScript 3 experience, you should check this out. [...]
Jul 9th, 2008
The LiveCycle ES Update 1 (LiveCycle 8.2) documentation is now online at http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/livecycle/