Rich Internet Talk

SDTimes On Flex, RIAs And More

By: Ben Forta, Senior Technical Evangelist, Adobe Inc

Software Development Times On The Web is running a story entitled Movin' on up on RIA, Flex, AIR, Silverlight, Java FX, and more.


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Figuring Out the New Namespaces in Gumbo

By: Ryan Stewart, Platform Evangelist, Adobe

Simeon Bateman has a really good post up about some of the changes that we’re making to the namespaces for Flex 4. Because Flex 4 “Gumbonents” are going to live next to the old Flex 3 “Halo” components, namespaces are going to be an important thing to understand.


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ActionScript 3 RIA Reference Guide

By: Simon Whatley, Adobe Certified Instructor, Highlander

The ActionScript reference for rich Internet application development provides an alphabetical reference for all native ActionScript APIs for the Adobe technology platform runtimes: Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR—as well as the Adobe Flex framework APIs. Use this guide both as an API reference and a tool to learn about ...


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Adobe MAX Europe 2007

By: Simon Whatley, Adobe Certified Instructor, Highlander

The excitment is brewing! From the Adobe MAX Europe 2007 website itself: Join us for MAX 2007 Europe, a unique opportunity to connect with the Adobe community for an educational and inspirational experience that can't be found anywhere else.

We're bringing together the most creative and influential minds in the ...


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This One Time, at Flash Camp….I Got Flash CS4

By: Ryan Stewart, Platform Evangelist, Adobe

We’re doing a BarCamp style event just for the Adobe crowd in San Francisco during the weekend of October 10th. The event, dubbed Flash 10 Camp is going to offer a bunch of sneak peaks and content regarding Flash Player 10 and Flash CS4. Lee Brimelow is even giving the keynote on Sunday.
I won’t be [...]


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Check Out The Weekly RIA Roundup Podcast

By: Ben Forta, Senior Technical Evangelist, Adobe Inc

David Tucker has been publishing a weekly roundup of all of the RIA news for O'Reilly Inside RIA, and now presents the content in a weekly podcast that covers all major RIA technologies and platforms.


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Next Generation Adobe Platform Mini Tour in Asia

By: Ryan Stewart, Platform Evangelist, Adobe

Mike and I are leaving tomorrow on a mini tour of Asia and we’ll be showing off a bunch of very cool stuff that you’ll be able to get your hands on before too long.


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Kap Lab Releases Free Flex Components

By: Ben Forta, Senior Technical Evangelist, Adobe Inc

French partner Kap Lab has released some very impressive Flex / AS3 components. Trees, data visualization, component inspection, and more. And they are all free for the download!

[Via Michael Chaize].


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MAX Session Rescheduled

By: Ben Forta, Senior Technical Evangelist, Adobe Inc

We've had to make some minor MAX scheduling changes. My 3 hour hands-on MAX session Getting Started with Real-Time Flex and AIR via LiveCycle Data Services has been moved to Wednesday, November 19th, 9:00am-12:30pm. That's the bad news. The good news is that the room we're in accommodates over 200 people, and there are still some open slots left. I hope to see you there, and don't forget to bring your laptop!


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More On Adobe And Zend Partnership

By: Ben Forta, Senior Technical Evangelist, Adobe Inc

I previously mentioned that Adobe and Zend were partnering to make Flex and PHP play better together, and today InfoWorld published some more information on the partnership.


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