Dec 12th, 2008
LiveCycle Data Services and Tour de Flex
In addition to the many UI-related samples in Tour de Flex, we have included several samples on accessing data from Flex applications. This is sometimes a mysterious topic for new Flex developers so we included some good samples to help you get going. More are already in the works. Below are some teaser screenshots. You [...]
Dec 9th, 2008
Showing off Adobe AIR in Tour de Flex
It’s been over three weeks since we introduced Tour de Flex at MAX and so far, the response has been fantastic! It’s great to see folks exploring the opportunities that Flex provides. I wanted to take a few minutes and point out some of the specific Adobe AIR features that are demonstrated in Tour de [...]
Nov 23rd, 2008
Tour de Flex – How to add your components, effects, skins, etc.
We launched Tour de Flex at Adobe MAX last week and have already seen over 8,000 users try it! The pace of downloads is still accelerating as people discover this new tool. Also, it’s worth noting that over 250,000 samples were viewed via the application in the first 5 days. In other words, people are [...]
Nov 22nd, 2008
How I almost crashed the Adobe MAX 2008 Keynote with Tour de Flex
For the past 3 months, several of us have been working crazy hours to get Tour de Flex ready for Adobe MAX. Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s CTO, told us a week before MAX that he was going to use Tour de Flex in his Monday morning keynote to demonstrate several of the cloud APIs now available [...]
Nov 20th, 2008
How we got Tour de Flex on 1000 USB Drives for MAX 2008
We gave away 1,000 USB Flash drives at Adobe MAX this week. The drives contained the new Tour de Flex application and were very well received. Most of you probably assumed that we (Adobe) ordered these drives with the files already on them, right? Well, the timing didn’t work out that nicely. We had to [...]
Nov 17th, 2008
NEW! Flex Component Explorer – The Downloadable Adobe Evangelist
A few months ago, I blogged about the Flex 3 Component Explorer, a simple one paragraph article intended to raise awareness of the existence of the tool. To my amazement, this post has seen consistent heavy traffic and is in the top 3 posts in my 15 months of blogging. This led me to [...]
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