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Company Logo in Illustrator by jccullitonCompany Logo in Illustrator by jcculliton

We need to have our company logo produced in vector form in Adobe Illustrator. Currently, the logo is in bitmap format. We require the logo in three colors, with two versions of each color. A pdf is
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The failure of AS3 ?

Back in October 2005, Macromedia (later bought by Adobe) announced the Flash Player 8.5 Beta which would include support for a new programming language : ActionScript3 (AS3). The player 8.5 - which was named this way not to frighten customers that just bought Flash 8 IDE - will later be renamed as Flash Player 9 and AS3 became the default programming language for Flash and Flex - replacing the previous AS2 - with the release of Flash CS3 Pro in April 2007. Now, more than two years later, it's
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Google Wave Crashes Over Microsoft

Google Wave Crashes Over MicrosoftWith Wave, which Google previewed for developers at its I/O conference yesterday, developers can for the first time create Web-based applications that compete with Microsoft in terms of quality (while utterly trumping it on price). It alsougg boots creates the conditions for customers to comfortably shuck off the shackles of installed software
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The Web Way vs the Wave Way vs the Flash Collaboration Services Way

Anil Dash has a post worth reading up on his blog that talks about the
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Applying styles to different states on a Spark Button control in Flex 4

The following example shows you how you can use the advanced CSS features in Flex 4 to apply different state-specific styles to a Spark Button control using CSS. For more information on using advanced CSS, see the
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Sneak Peek at content from my CFUnited Presentation this Friday

This Friday, August 14, I
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Adobe Fireworks CS4 (v9.0) portable + newest Adobe fonts

Rapidly prototype websites and application interfaces with Adobe
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Elixir Repertoire 7.6.0

August 12th, 2009 Posted in ApplicationsElixir Repertoire 7.6.0 Elixir Repertoire 7 takes Business Intelligence to the next level of open interoperability by fully embracing the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), making available Business Intelligence capabilities as Web Services. Through its REST APIs, web-enabled applications can easily interface with Repertoire Server, regardless of the application front end in use.Riding on the wave of Web 2.0, Repertoire 7 acts as the unifying business in
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Adobe steps towards mobile products now

Adobe steps towards mobile products now :Adobe a heavy name in the internet application has now seems to be diverting their concern for the internet users of cell phones. They are developing new tools for the users to handle the criticality regarding speed content and application platforms etc for heavy cell phone internet users, already contributed by its products including ColdFusion, Flex and ColdFusion Builder software. Ananth Raman PN, director of engineering, Adobe Systems, said, As we hav
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Video Software Application

August 5th, 2009 Video Software Applicationi want a custom flash video software application that will allow end users :1. with one easy click, upload a logo replacing a temp one 2. add music frin music mp3 files already within the application or adding mp3 of own3. edit headline where logo or image is4. edit text that would appear every XX amount of seconds and rotate a new text in 3d format.5. easy one click option to upload to video sharing sites like youtubeMust be user friendly, programmi
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Announcing the release of the Government Benefits and Services Delivery Solution Accelerator for LiveCycle ES

The solution accelerator team is pleased to announce the release of the Government Benefits and Services Delivery Solution Accelerator. The solution accelerator is designed to be extended and customized by partners leading to reduced development time and increased quality. The accelerator is packaged with a set of production ready building blocks that consist of re-usable components and technical guides. The building blocks may be used within the context of a solution accelerator or form the ba
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August Flex Cookbook recipe drawing

For the month of August, every single cookbook recipe contributed to the Flex Cookbook will be entered into an end-of-month drawing for some terrific giveaways. The more recipes you contribute, the more entries you will have in the drawing. There will be one prize added to the monthly drawing for every 10 recipes contributed; so if there are 10 contributions posted in August then there will be one prize drawing. If there are 20 recipes contributed there will be two prize drawings, etc. That
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Posts about Steve Jobs as of August 5, 2009

Pump Up Your Book Promotion
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45+ Most Useful Adobe AIR Applications [New]

Aug03 freetrafficAdobe has released Adobe AIR version 1.5.2, and there are some changes log. So, what
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Java and Flex with James Ward

The Detroit Java User Group is very pleased to announce a special event, Java and Flex with James Ward , on August 19, 2009 from 6:30PM to 8:30PM. The meeting will be held at ePrize, One ePrize Drive, in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan ( map ). Building highly interactive software that users love to use is usually a challenging endeavor. However, the open source Flex SDK and Java are a perfect combination of technologies for building very rich and highly interactive software for the Web and the de
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New Era Launches National Design Contest

BUFFALO, NY (August 3, 2009)
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OSMF at MAX

The Open Source Media Framework will be at MAX in October! This year Adobe's MAX conference ( http://max.adobe.com /) will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, October 4-7.  Max has over 200 sessions and 100 hands-on labs.  You can register today with an early bird discount available until August 31, 2009. There will be 3 sessions dedicated exclusively to OSMF, with details below.  (The titles and descriptions still refer to the project by its code name Strobe.)  For a listin
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New AIR 1.5.2 API Examples and Features

Despite the
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Flex 4 Skinning Ignores Developer Needs

Now to address the LARGE gaping deficiency in Adobe
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Integrate Adobe Flex with Struts 2 using HttpService

Integrate Adobe Flex with Struts 2 using HttpService
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Week of AFCS Revisited: SharedObject

After my trainwreck post on using CollectionNode in AFCS Nigel suggested that I try to recreate my example using the higher level APIs instead of trying to build everything from scratch with NodeCollection. As I mentioned in the previous post, the AFCS team did a great job of creating very basic APIs like CollectionNode and then building on top of those to make APIs that are easier to use. SharedObject is a perfect example of that. Here
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gotoAndLearn() was powered by ColdFusion

Update: unfortunately things weren
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Create a stunning website with Flex applications

Flex is a free, open source framework for building highly interactive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. Flex creates SWF files that are rendered by Flash Player. Flex applications are delivered on the web via the Flash Player or to the desktop via Adobe AIR.Apart from this, web developments are quite commonly known in the world of Internet. It is actually the development of various web applications to form a website and includes all
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Creating a video sharing web application using Flex, Flash Media Server, and Flash Media Encoding Server

Adobe Flash has revolutionized the way people consume video today, and traditional media is just a small part of it. The revolution started with user-generated content—the dancing bird, the barking puppy, the latest news from the person who just happened to be at an event. The key for success of user-generated content is the ability to offer a very user-friendly experience to upload, share videos, and watch them without hassle. All of this makes the Adobe Flash platform—with Adobe Flash Player p
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ColdFusion Positions In MN, CT, VA, And London

I've not posted these in a while, sorry about that. Four positions this week, including one in London, England: Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN) is looking for a senior ColdFusion developer. Requirements include ColdFusion experience, as well as experience in data modeling and design on enterprise level databases. Experience working with rich internet application development using Adobe Flex, AIR, or AJAX is preferred. Details posted online . Softstone (Westport, CT) is looking for a ColdFus
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18 Adobe AIR Apps for Designers

Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is a cross-platform program that allows you to run a wide variety of different little programs. It has become best known for a slew of Twitter clients, the most popular being TweetDeck, but the environment is a lot more useful than just as a platform for the popular microblogging service. Web designers can find a slew of handy programs that will ease their job.  Some of the tools you can find include choosing a color scheme, measuring spaces in your design, edit
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Animated Car Using Flash

August 3rd, 2009 Animated Car Using FlashI need a flash type animation so when the website loads up you see a car go from top right to top left as it moves across the webite logo appears then it goes down the left hand side and stops the car must have revving sound as well look at this link http://www.bluebellmini.co.uk/ it will show you the type of car and sound we needSimilar freelance jobsSplash Page Intro Using FlashLooking for someone to take a short story board with three scenarios and
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gotoAndLearn() now powered by ColdFusion

I have just finished converting my gotoAndLearn() site from PHP to ColdFusion. This started out as a learning experience since I will be doing some ColdFusion briefings on my upcoming trip to South America. During the course of the conversion I have actually really started to like the simplicity of the language and its impressive feature set. Since it is an Adobe product, it obviously also has the best and cleanest integration with other Adobe technologies like Flash, Flex, LiveCycle, PDF, etc
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Abolish Flash Lite ?

Here is an interview Enrique Duvos talking about Flash vs. HTML 5. He also mention Flash Lite:
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Flash on your TV today

Following a recent operation on my back to correct a slipped disc I
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Open Source != Open Distribution

With the iPhone / App Store debacle a lot of people are thinking about distribution these days. As more news comes in, I definitely feel a lot closer to taking the blue pill that is for sure. I have also overhead several conversations in the last few weeks that conflate open source and the magic of distribution. Alex (was so tempted to say Dylan here for a second, man! ;) posted about perspective and how not only is all open source not equal but that doesn
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RIA Unleashed Coming To Boston

RIA Unleashed Boston is New England's only conference focused on building rich internet applications using the Adobe Flash Platform including Flex, AIR, ColdFusion, Catalyst and more. RIA Unleashed is built on top of the former Flex Camp Boston events run the past two years. The event will be held at Bentley University in Waltham, MA, on November 13th, 2009, from 8:00am to 5:30pm.
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Summer of Flash Episode 3 - Simeon Bateman

This episode we get a chance to chat with Simeon Bateman and pick his brain on his recent projects. We discussed continuous integration servers, the name space change in Flex 4, and the open source nature of Adobe Flex.
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Posts about Steve Jobs as of August 1, 2009

Analyst claims first hand knowledge of Apple gaming, home media center tablet - appleoverload.com 08/01/2009 Barron
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Flex Fish-eye

August 2nd, 2009 Flex Fish-eyesee attached file it is flex project I need you to make it work and send it to me to test that you can make it work then we start project to customize itSimilar freelance jobsWysiwig Editor In Flex 3I have an urgent need for someone to integrate a Wysiwig Editor in Flex 3 as a tool bar that can populate multiple text areas. The screen will look like an online edit tool, but will only update embedded text areas over an image of a document. I am open to suggestio
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Free Flex Builder 3 for Unemployed Developers

Adobe has re-launched its unemployed Flex developer program. After the great response to the test program back in April, we are giving free copies of Flex Builder 3 to unemployed developers. For details and to apply for the program, please visit https://freeriatools.adobe.com/learnflex/
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Posts about Steve Jobs as of July 31, 2009

The Onion and the iPhone - gunaxin.com 07/31/2009 The Onion has a fairly long history of goofing on the iPhone. Their latest bit is announcing the iPhone 3GI:
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Adobe Dev Summit 2009

Adobe Dev Summit, 2009 has been announced. The summit is on 4th August, 2009 at Lalit Ashok, Bangalore. I will be speaking there on "Whats new in ColdFusion 9" specifically covering CFBuilder. You can sign up for a Gold pass, which is absolutely free. You can also sign up for a Platinum pass and get Flex Builder 3 Professional license for free. What's in this Dev Summit for you? See the new, improved and rocking LiveCycle Data Services 3 in action! If you are a Java developer, you wou
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Android Widget for GoogleAndBlog & ANA News

There is now an Android Widget for GoogleAndBlog thanks to Justin at nEx.Software . Justin is available for your Android projects as well those related to Microsoft .Net / Office & Adobe Flash / Flex by contacting him at nEx.Software . You can access the GAB widget itself via The Android Market and see it at AndroLib & Cyrket online . The Widget can be loaded on your Android phone homescreen which you will then be able to automatically see and get notified
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LiveCycle DS 3 beta integrates with Flash Builder 4

The beta version of Adobe LiveCycle Data Services 3 delivers many new features and improvements. One particularly exciting feature is a new technology, code named Fiber, which enables Flex developers to use a model-driven development approach for a faster and easier data-driven application development. With Fiber, data management is implicitly supported and does not require developers to create custom assemblers or employ complicated LiveCycle Data Services specific configurations. And as pa
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Adobe AIR 1.5.1 [Multi]

15.1 MB | WinXP/Vista | 17310709 Adobe's new cross-operating system runtime opens up much more possibilities to both developers and everyday computer users. It allows developers to create new web applications using HTML, XML, Javascript and Flex. What's more they aren't limited to using Adobe's library, but can create, share and use their own to create specific web applications.
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On the East Coast? Come Get Some Flash Catalyst Info

If you
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Rounding Up AIAS & Adobe Wave Week

Flash Player for mobile will support multi-touch and accelerometer features, and Daniel Dura will be doing a session at MAX09 covering that stuff. Adobe also open sourced Flash Platform Media and Text Framework. For more news that came during Adobe Industry Analyst Summit, check out #AIAS and #adobe09 hashtags on Twitter. Ted Patrick dives into the unique elements of the generative ActionScript framework . Matt Chotin assures us that the Adobe Flex team is paying attention to all t
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Siam Flex framework

Siam Flex framework aims to provide usability and rapid application development changes to the existing Adobe Flex data representation support. Siam is a lightweight framework that enables you to quickly represent your application data models regardless of their type or origin. This preview introduces the envisioned features of the framework and contains also code examples and ideas for future releases. Siam is still in early phase, so your feedback is highly appreciated!
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"Flickroom": Lightroom-style Flickr browsing

Oh, now that's interesting: Flickroom is an AIR application that uses a Lightroom-style shell to display photos. According to the site, the app "provides the rich browsing experience Flickr users have long deserved. The dark theme ensures that your photographs look better than ever before! You can now receive instant notifications for any activity on your photostream, upload photos by just drag-and-drop, add comments, mark faves, add notes, tweet about your photos and also view all info
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How NetWeaver is used by the Suite

Earlier this year we decided to investiage examples of how NetWeaver is used by the Suite. We looked at the well-known items, such as BI content and portal packages, as well as looking at each application
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Adobe Dev Summit 2009

What
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Expert Adobe FLEX Developer Needed (PORTLAND, OR)

City: Portland We are looking for an EXPERT Adobe FLEX developer to work on multiple projects as a contractor in a dot NET environment. Advertisement: read more
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New Content in the Adobe Developer Connection

As part of our weekly content launches in the Adobe Developer Connection, we
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Posts about Steve Jobs as of July 24, 2009

The Generation M Manifesto - baqmar.be 07/24/2009 Mail to a friendGreat article by Umair Haque on blogs.harvardbusiness.org:Dear Old People Who Run the World,My generation would like to break up with you. Everyday, I see a widening gap in how you and we understand the world
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Creating a Feed Reader Widget with Adobe Flex 3

In this tutorial you'll learn how to create your own Flex feed reader application. In this case, the final result will be a simple feed reader which can be used in your blog or site to display your favorite feeds.
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The Birthers, the Plain Truth and the

Today we
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Posts about Steve Jobs as of July 26, 2009

Congress this week July 20-25, 2009 - conservativethoughts.us 07/26/2009 There is an ACORN Report out calling for an investigation into the corrupt business of Acorn.  Read Report here:  http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/media/pdfs/20090723ACORNReport.pdf There are a few things Congress is working on that are highlighted in Red.  Please also review the Energy and Climate and parks and such.  Please review the entire bill, some of these fall under the Acorn Umbrella of non-profits
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Comment on Morning Highlights from the Adobe Industry Analyst Summit, Day 01 by Flash Player Mobile News: Multi-touch! | EverythingFlex: Flex & AIR

[...] Morning Highlights from the Adobe Industry Analyst Summit include the following information about the mobile Flash [...]
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Heading Back To India

I'll be back in India next month to present at the Adobe Devsummit in Bangalore on August 4th. Fellow Adobe evangelist Serge Jespers will be joining me, along with the local evangelism team, for a full day event that will cover Flex, Flash, Catalyst, ColdFusion, Data Services, and more. They are expecting 1000 attendees at this event, and they expect it to sell out, so register quickly!
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Didn

Joerg Beckert let us know that a public beta version of Adobe Wave is now available on Adobe Labs. I tried it and didn
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Next stop: Bangalore, India

I
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Flex 3 with Java

Satish Kore,
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Posts about Steve Jobs as of July 23, 2009

Apple Owns the Expensive Computer Market, Shocking! - blog.kbsweb.com 07/23/2009 It was a small surprise when Apple announced their third quarter earnings this year. I mean, we knew that Apple had just released the iPhone 3GS so it couldn
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Logic Studio update offers improved effects, Flex Time

Apple today announced the newest version of Logic Studio , the company
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7 of the Best Free Linux Twitter Clients

LinuxLinks: "Three of the clients featured here (TweetDeck, twhirl, and Spaz) use Adobe's Air application framework to provide cross-platform compatibility. Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application."
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A first impression of Flash Catalyst

Spent some time playing around with Flash Catalyst , which was released by Adobe as a public Beta yesterday. I downloaded it today and got started on some of the tutorials Adobe labs has put up. My impressions: It's pretty neat stuff. I could see myself prototyping with it, although Keynote and Acrobat are my tools of choice at the moment. From my limited time working with it, Catalyst's main function is to make it very easy to take Photoshop or Illustrator compositions and turn them into
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links for 2009-07-23

15 Creative WordPress Header Designs | Web Design Tutorials | Creating a Website | Learn Adobe Flash, Photoshop and Dreamweaver Amazing Wordpress Header Designs! (tags: design wordpress headers ) 30 Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design | SingleFunction These are freaking Awesome! EXTREME Minimalism (tags: design webdesign web inspiration webdev tools css twitter ) Clever JPEG Optimization Techniques | How-To | Smashing Magazine Fantastic JPE
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Two New Open Source Projects at Adobe

Today we
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Why Flex? - My Top 5 Reasons to Choose Adobe Flex

Are you still struggling to find out which RIA solution is best for you? With so many frameworks to choose, do you feel lost somehow? The good news is, you are not here to select the best movie for OSCAR. Your job is to simply find the most suitable product for YOU.
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U.K. Adobe RIA Usergroup Launched

The newly formed U.K. based Adobe RIA Usergroup has launched, and fellow Platform Evangelist Andrew Shorten will be presenting an introduction to Flex at the inaugural meeting on August 19th, 2009, at Skills Matter in London. Registration is now open.
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Posts about Steve Jobs as of July 21, 2009

Join TUAW at 5 PM EDT for the Apple 3rd quarter earnings call - realhs.com 07/21/2009 Filed under: Apple Financial , Liveblog There
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Major lessons from observing user workflows

We recently asked Create with Context (CWC), an independent research and design company, to conduct lab studies of four important user workflows involving Adobe products. We wanted to understand the effectiveness of the learning experience around these workflows, and figure out how to improve them. We learned three important lessons that we think will apply across every workflow and learning experience using Adobe products and learning resources: * Users would prefer _not_ to learn so
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Adobe: Mobile Flash to Get Accelerometer, Multi-touch Support Early Next Year

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentAdobe CTO Kevin Lynch said at a company event for analysts today that a full featured version of Flash for mobile phones will be available in beta by the end of this year and by early next year the technology will be making use of multi-touch and accelerometer features on smart phones.Ted Patrick, Adobe
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Reiki I & II Intensive $350

August 29th and 30th 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  Saturday & Sunday Location TBA www.massagemadeconvenient.com Related posts: Workshop with Certification on Developing RIA with Adobe Flex, Adobe Flash and Web 2.0 Reiki Healing /Teaching http://1freeadvertising.com/2008/09/02/thursday-september-25th-datedash-singles-speed-dating-in-west-la/
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Adobe Releases Beta Text Layout Framework

This week, Adobe announced the beta release of the Text Layout Framework, an extensible library, built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10. This will allow developers and designers to use more sophisticated typography layouts in Web applications. The framework is intended for use with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional or Adobe Flex, and is included in the next version of Flex, code named Gumbo. The Text Layout Framework delivers multi-lingual, print-quality typography for the web, i
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Adobe Goes Open Source With Two Media Tools

Adobe ( news , site ) has announced that is has taken another two of its products targeted specifically at the media and publishing industries and gone open source with them.
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Posts about Steve Jobs as of July 22, 2009

Fake Steve Jobs on outsourcing in China - morristsai.com 07/22/2009 From Fake Steve Jobs: I
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Flex 4 Beta Update

The Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 betas have now been out for a few weeks and we're very excited to see so many folks playing with them, asking questions on the forums, and posting examples of what they've done....
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Adobe Releases ColdFusion 9 on Labs

In case you missed it earlier this week, Adobe has recently released ColdFusion 9 beta on Adobe Labs and ColdFusion Builder on Adobe Labs. I was lucky enough to catch a presentation of the new features at last night's DC Flex User Group by Adam Lehman (CF Product Manager), and I have to say, it certainly looks intriguing and very promising.
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Adobe Fireworks CS3 Portable (61.5 MB)

Adobe Fireworks CS3 Portable (61.5 MB) What is Fireworks? Accelerate web design and development with Adobe
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Posts about Steve Jobs as of July 17, 2009

7-17-2009 (Fri Morning) Activities - commentsforthe.net 07/17/2009 Housing starts in the U.S. unexpectedly rose in June as construction of single-family dwellings jumped by the most since 2004 - Bloomberg A half-dozen senators friendly to labor have decided to drop a central provision of a bill that would have made it easier to organize workers
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Flex 4 Overview Slides Posted

A few weeks ago I gave a talk with Andy McIntosh at Adobe Camp Denver on some of the new features in Flex 4. The conference was fantastic. I've embedded the slides and links to our examples in this entry. Enjoy!
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Posts about Steve Jobs as of July 18, 2009

MacBook Pro Review: Why I
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Creating a Web Service Powered Flex Application in One Minute

It
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Simple Flex Webapp

The simple Flex webapp is based on the Simple Spring MVC Form Annotation Configuration Webapp. It's the same except the HTML results on the search page have been replaced with a Flex application and services for Flex were configured on the server using Spring BlazeDS Integration and Adobe BlazeDS.
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Adobe ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder Here

Adobe released ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder public betas yesterday. The two new releases are a step closer to integration with the Adobe Flash platform since support for Adobe Flex (along with AJAX) started with the previous version. ColdFusion 9 comes with support for Adobe AIR applications including local/remote database synchronization, but most importantly has several internal functionalities being exposed as services. ColdFusion 9 also comes with an AIR app for managing multipl
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Web Roundups: 7 Free Flash CMS

A Flash CMS is a good option to deliver projects to your clients when they want to manage and change the content easly, without programming knowledge and avoiding to edit the flash files. Today, we show you the free available options which you should bear in mind before decide to go on Premium Products. Developing your own Flash CMS it requires lot
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13 Free Adobe AIR Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier

Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax. It
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AFCS : Gearing Up for MAX

That special MAX feeling is in the air, and our team is getting ready to jump into the monkey cage yet again. We're working like crazy on a few different fronts - getting some announcements ready, working with some customers to have them show off what they've built, and of course, planning a variety of MAX sessions to help developers learn more about AFCS. Want to do real-time presence, P2P audio/video, file sharing, messaging and synchronization, from the comfort of your own Flex apps, with n
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JavaFX: the

My feelings after 2 presentations given at Paris JUG. One was about Adobe's Flex and its integrations with Spring on the server, the other one was about JavaFX. The latter included very impressive demos. Note: this is a link to my own blog
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Gorilla Logic FlexMonkey 1.0 for Adobe Flex RIAs Released

Gorilla Logic  released 
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Building a Flex Application with the Parsley Framework

After my recent explorations of
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What Is The Largest Number Of Friends Anyone Has Collected On Facebook?

{ Posted on Jul 12 2009 by duggme } I know someone with 397 friends and counting. What is the largest number of friends any one person has on facebook? Is there a limit? Share and Enjoy:Check it out more helpful news:How Do I Hide My Facebook Friends From Being Viewed By Non Friends?Facebook Question: What Is The Easiest Way To Add All My Friends To Limited Profile List?How Do I Stop My Friends Seeing My Friend List On Facebook?How Is It That On Facebook I Find People Listed As My Frien
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Remember Silverlight? Version 3 Launch and Features

Microsoft
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Buy Adobe Software, Get $400 Off MAX

Buy Adobe software from the online store, and Save $400 on Adobe MAX 2009 . This promotion only applies to the North America store and expires September 28, 2009, and includes ColdFusion, Acrobat, Flex Builder, Creative Suite, and more.
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Posts about Steve Jobs as of July 13, 2009

Maine Housing Properties Go Green - prmaine.com 07/13/2009 PORTLAND - When Stanford Management
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FXComps Money (& Decimal) library 2.0.0 for Adobe Flex

The FXComps Money library (version: 2.0.0) is developed for calculating with arbitrary-precision signed decimal numbers and money. This version includes bug fixes, new classes (SimpleDecimal, PrimitiveDecimal) and unit tests.
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First Look

Copyright
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FlexMonkey 1.0 is out

Gorilla Logic just announced the release of FlexMonkey 1.0. FlexMonkey is an open source Flex record/playback testing tool. If you want to find more, you can read Eric Owens article from Adobe Developer Connection. Another good resource is the project website . Enjoy and free-bugs Flex apps for all!
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Flex-Anwendungen testen mit FlexMonkey

FlexMonkey ist ein Programm zum Testen von Flex- und AIR-Anwendungen. Der Fokus liegt auf automatisierten Tests der Benutzeroberfläche. FlexMonkey is an Adobe AIR application used for testing Flex- and AIR-based applications. Providing the functionality to record, playback and verify Flex UI interactions, FlexMonkey also generates ActionScript-based testing scripts that you can easily include within a continuous [...]
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Flex 3 Cookbook: Code-recipes, Tips, And Tricks

Product Description The best way to show off a powerful new technology is to demonstrate real-world results with it, and that
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Flash Expert For Interactive S

Flash interactive slideshow. I need someone to finish off a project for me due to workload. You need to be fluent in flash and basically all you need to do is make the PSD I will supply you which has ALL the design and text ready, but just animate it so it is a nice and smooth. I need this finish today so only those who have no other commitments will be considered as this is top priority. You need to be able to start ASAP and be contactable through IM Tags: expert , expert for , Fl
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Drupal Hosts : adobeflex how to do in drupal

Hostgator web hosting is our best host for drupal . Sign up with our recommended host for drupal here This is a drupal question asked by rajya lakshmi on 10 July 2009 how to use the adobe flex in drupal . how to learn both combinations. More info at this drupal node or sign up with the popular choice for drupal hosting
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40 Great Adobe AIR Applications for Designers and Developers

Adobe AIR is one of the most under-appreciated application platforms, but the number of applications available for AIR make it incredibly useful. There are apps for everything from business to shopping to image management to video editing. And plenty of applications are useful to designers and developers , including HTML text editors, Flickr search apps, color palette management tools and even ones to help with the business side of the industry. Below are 40 awesome AIR apps that we ha
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ADOBE FLEX 3.0 FOR DUMMIES

Adobe Flex 3.0 For Dummies Product Description Ready to turn your Web utilization muscles and move antiquity flush cyberspace applications? With Flex 3.0, you crapper create enthusiastic RIAs that action same screen applications using Adobe Flash Player, which is already installed on more than 95 proportionality of Internet-connected computers. And the recreation and cushy way
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Editing Php Script+integration

Project Scope: We are currently developing a website. The site is for users to browse MP3 , lyrics , videos , Itunes, windows mobile apps , and be able to send link of that page to theri mobile phones free. what i need from is : - we need logo ,banners and button for webmasters. as well design inspired by iphone using those chat bubbles and clean design . -in the script for mp3 search , we have data providers that supply us with content for mp3 , we need to add more providers that we m
Publication date: 2009-07-12 more

Learning Flex Builder 3

In June
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GeoWeb Flex Viewer Grows with more Widgets

It
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A quick look and thoughts on Silverlight 3.

Microsoft released Silverlight 3. So it's time for Silverlight on my Flash blog ? Heresy ?  No, not really. I'm not going to do an intro to Silverlight here, I guess you all know what it is, or what it is proposed to be. As a developer, I'm naturally interested in platforms available to me or in a similar area to what I work in. Therefore, Silverlight has my attention. Not because I believe it's a Flash killer, not because I think a bag of Microsofts cash will come my way, not because I want t
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Free Flex Builder 3 For Unemployed Developers Round 2

Earlier this year, the Adobe Platform Evangelists started handing out copies of Flex Builder 3 to developers who are out of work, the idea being that they could use their new free time to learn a new skill. It started off as an informal grassroots initiative, but we were so inundated with requests that Adobe launched an official program around the idea. Over the course of the next few weeks we handed out 15,000 licenses of Flex Builder, and many of the recipients have contacted us to tell us tha
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Kindisoft secureSWF Give-Away and 25% Off Discount!

The great guys at Kindisoft are helping out the Flash games community this month with a nice give-away and promotion of their Kindisoft secureSWF encryption product. For those of you who aren
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Microsoft Launches Expression 3 & Sketchflow

Saw a tweet yesterday from my buddy, Microsoft
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Microsoft Launched Silverlight 3: Download Now

Microsoft has just made silverlight version 3 available for download. Microsoft hopes to take Adobe
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One Person

July 8th, 2009 by Ryan - 2 Comments A writer has recently provided quite a lengthy and in-depth idea about how they think the new Koenigsegg / Saab Automobile AB arrangement & strategy throughout the new venture should look like.It
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Discover the power of Flex and CSS

Leverage the powerful capabilities of CSS that are already built into the Adobe
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Blogs from the source

Here's a fairly comprehensive list of blogs maintained by engineers on the Flex, Flash Builder, and Catalyst teams. You'll find plenty of examples, tutorials, tips and tricks, and discussion on new features available in our betas. (in no particular order :) they're all awesome) Flex team: Matt Chotin's Blog Flex Examples - numerous Flex examples Flexophile flexreport - a discussion of the less intuitive aspects of Flex components and applications Pete's Blog
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Retrieve CD Key/Product Key From Windows Registry with Product Key Finder

You must keep CD Key/Product key of any software or application at handy place since you may not know when you will need that key again. However most of the users either lose the CD cover printed with CD Key or forget the place where they have kept product key. If application is still installed on your machine then there is still chance to recover Serial Key of software via Windows Registry key . However it may not be as easy to retrieve key unless you know the exact registry key loca
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TweetDeck Marks One Year Anniversary: The Journey and What's Next

Editor's Note: On July 4, 2008, TweetDeck , a new Adobe AIR application for Twitter, was introduced to the world, on this blog . Twelve months later, it is unquestionably one of the most popular microblogging clients in the world. I had the opportunity to trade e-mails with its developer, Iain Dodsworth, to learn more about his journey, and what's next. -- Louis Louis: Iain, first, thanks for the opportunity to talk to you about TweetDeck on the one year anniversary of the product's unvei
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Interview with Adobe

Mark Anders is a senior principal scientist at Adobe Systems, and one of his core responsibilities is to make Flash the platform for building the next generation of rich internet applications. Prior to Adobe
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FlexFormatter - Tools for Adobe Flex Builder

If you are looking for code formatting tools for Flex Builder, scoot over to https://sourceforge.net/projects/flexformatter/ Ernest Pasour has built an excellent set of source code tools for Flex Builder.
Publication date: 2009-07-08 more

New book for customizing Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management

Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation is a new book from Packt that guides readers to customize, use, and administer websites using the Alfresco CMS platform. Written by a team of four Content Management experts, this book gives users a clear understanding about how to integrate external applications such as Liferay Portal, Adobe Flex, iPhone, iGoogle, and Facebook to meet their Content Management needs. Alfresco is one of the most popular Java-based Content Management Sy
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Two great Flash-related posts

There
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Getting Started with the Tide framework for Flex 3

Tide is an open source application framework for Adobe Flex that has been part of the Granite Data Services project for more than one year. Let's have a look at a very simple Flex login form built with Tide to demonstrate its main characteristics.
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A Baby So Ugly, Even A Mother Couldn

I may be one of the most conflicted web designers on the planet. Seriously. I write Flash/Flex code about as often as I work in HTML/CSS. I love
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Promethean, Model Metrics and Salesforce.com Team to Deploy Interactive Website with Force.com Sites

With a single cloud computing platform, Promethean accesses integrated website and portal, order capture and configuration, and customer relationship management. Chicago, IL and London ( PRWeb UK / PRWEB ) July 8, 2009
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Flash Expert

You see this map http://stoodder.devilcoderz.com/Portfolio/Flash/Queens/Map.html well when user clicks on one town on the map that town should automatically pop up outside the map and it is empty space on the map, on the area where the town used to be. Tags: expert , expert flash graphic , Flash , flash expert , flash expert flash , flash graphic design , map , the map , town Related projects Flash Expert Needed Asap Flash Expert Needed Flash Expert Neede
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Trend Check on Flex, Silverlight and JavaFX 2009

On July 1, 2008 I wrote about the trend check on Flex, Silverlight and JavaFX . A year later, I am curious to know where the trend is going. So I did it again. To be certain and fair, I gave the full terms to Google Trend, Adobe Flex, Adobe AIR, Microsoft Silverlight and Sun JavaFX. This is due to there are other Flex information out there (such as Ford i-flex technologies) will help Flex
Publication date: 2009-07-08 more

LBS Search Tool

table.dptable { width:100%; border:0; } tr.dphead { background-color:#0066CC; color:#FFFFFF; font-weight:bold; } tr.dphead td a { color:#FFFFFF; } tr.dprow { background-color:#FFFFFF; } tr.dprowalt { background-color:#CCCCCC; } #dpcols-contact { text-align:center; } #intro { } Do location-aware searches. Gets your location either by Gears Geolocation protocol for location by IP or WiMAX Open Source Connection Manager from Clearwire. Both Yahoo and Google mapped results. A beta Adobe
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook Available for Kindle

The Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook from O
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Data Paging with Flex and PHP in Flash Builder

Flash Builder 4 can really speed up the development of data-driven applications. There are new wizards that can help you creating, on the client side, the data service, the data model, map client side operations to server side operations (CRUD applications). You can find here an introduction to the new Data/Services view from Flash Builder 4 (I am using a PHP server and a PHP class). In this article I will focus on how to use the available wizards to do data paging. While this new features c
Publication date: 2009-07-04 more

Boston Globe Rolls Out Digital Newspaper

The Boston Globe announced today the launch of GlobeReader, a new digital version of the newspaper that can be read offline or online. With GlobeReader the content of the Globe is downloaded daily to a subscriber's desktop, laptop or netbook, in a format aimed at resembling the look and feel of the print version of the Boston Globe.  A preview edition is currently available to Globe subscribers. Plans for further expansion are in the works. "GlobeReader is another important step toward o
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Webinar: Grow Your Business with SAP PartnerEdge and SCN and get a free copy of Xcelsius Present

SAP software solution partners, this event is for you if you are curious to learn more aboutSAP PartnerEdgeand theSAP Community Network (SCN). SAP PartnerEdgeis SAP
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Flash/Air Media (mp3/mp4) Download Manager by centralusa

Need to create an Adobe Air/Flash application with similar features to that of Beatport downloader (http://marketing.beatport.com/landing_pages/2009/beatport_downloader/index.html). Application must
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Adobe User Group Tour

As you probably know, we launched the first public betas for Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, and Flex SDK 4 in June 2009. And we had about 100 events across the world, events that were driven by the communities (Adobe User Groups). I had the pleasure to present at four events: Amsterdam
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Integrating The Adobe Flex Builder Plugin Into An Existing Eclipse IDE

For those that have been wondering how to go about doing this. A short article has been posted by the ESRI Support Centre . This article provides a brief look into integrating the Adobe Flex Builder Plugin into an existing Eclipse IDE. You can find this article here: http://blogs.esri.com/support/... Extremely useful for existing Java ADF developers wanting to work with the ArcGIS API for Flex.
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Extensis Portfolio Server 9 Now Available!

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of Portfolio Server
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Genetic Programming and Flex layouts

To show how Genetic Programming of Pyevolve can be flexible, I
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Build a Creative

Flash it
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ColdFusion Portal Update

Just a quick note to let folks know that I've updated the ColdFusion Resource Portal . I don't think folks visit this site very often. I created it mainly because I had trouble finding things on the Adobe site. I noticed how well Flex.org organized important links for Flex dev so I created a similar set of links for the CF portal. In this update I switched over the Spry tabs to jQuery UI tabs. I didn't remove Spry completely though - it is still being used to load the RSS feeds in the right h
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Rounding Up a Mournful Week

Towards the end of last week, Farah Fawcett was followed by Michael Jackson was followed by Billy Mays. Gawker has some interesting statistics about how the news about MJ
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ADOBE AIR PROGRAMMING UNLEASHED

Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (November 19, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0672329719 ISBN-13: 978-0672329715 Stacy President Young, archangel Givens, and Dimitrios Gianninas elaborate the noesis of this profession finished applicatory covering examples supported on the authorised 1.5 promulgation of Adobe AIR. You
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MVC (Model-View-Controller) Frameworks Versus HTMLComputer & ITAdd comments

Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a software approach to website building and display that separates what is called the
Publication date: 2009-06-27 more

Posts about Education as of June 27, 2009

Posted on Saturday, June 27, 2009 in Post about Education Press Release List
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Infuse Flex with the Force

The anti-software outfit Salesforce.com has released the latest version of Force.com Toolkit for Adobe AIR and Flex . As you might or might not know, Force.com
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Flex 4 Component

Learning Flex
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What's to come in LiveCycle ES documentation

Since we released LiveCycle ES last year, we have continued to update and improve the documentation. We hear what you are telling us and are working with the various teams here at Adobe provide you, the customer, with the best quality of information. What we have provided you so far: - Updated the installation and configuration documentation for each of the Service Packs to address reported issues - Provided new documents such as
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DU CourseMedia

The University of Denver Center for Teaching & Learning has (finally) released the DU CourseMedia
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How to View Photoshop .PSD & Illustrator .EPS File Thumbnails in Explorer

We can view thumbnails of jpg, png, tiff or any other image files in windows explorer. Thumbnails helps in selecting proper image file for any task. However windows can
Publication date: 2009-06-26 more

Create a 3D Bowling Game with JiglibFlash and Papervision 3D

Possibly the hottest thing to hit the Flash community since the advent of several excellent 3D engines is the recent debut of 3D physics engines. Here we
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Flex Communication with ASP.NET WebService

This article explains how to use an ASP.NET WebService from Adobe Flex... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here .
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[AMF3][T2Framework][Java]AMF

T2
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Flash Builder for AS3 Developers

Last week Adobe released a beta for Flash Builder 4; the update to Flex Builder 3. There's been a lot of discussion on the name change but it's clear that Adobe wants to sort out the confusion that Flex is a framework and Flash is the platform.
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Flash Builder 4 - Deep Look Into Improvements!

Adobe released early June 2009 the Flash Builder 4 and we took the chance to look deep into this awesome program. The news are many
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29 Technology Resource Groups in Columbus

Found this great list on http://www.columbustechevents.com/ - enjoy Buckeye Macintosh Group Central Ohio Application Lifecycle Management Group Central Ohio Java Users Group Central Ohio Linux Users Group Central Ohio .NET Developers Group Central Ohio SharePoint Users Group Columbus Architecture Group Columbus Cocoa Programming Language Meetup Columbus Collective Columbus Computer Society Columbus CRM User Group Columbus
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Create a Dynamic Event Calendar in Flex Builder 3 with Actionscript 3.0

This tutorial will allow readers to create an Event Calendar application using Flex. The final user will be able to plan over a daily, weekly or monthly plan. You will learn on this step by step Flex tutorial, to create from scratch those G raphic U ser I nterfaces, integrate them, and create a complete Rich Internet Application with a professional look. Requirements Flex Builder Try/Buy Pre-Requisites This tutorial assumes that you have fair knowledge of OOPs, Flex f
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What next for Adobe LiveCycle ES?

Yesterday I met Adobe
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How to Implement Tetris Conceptually

This text explains how Tetris works, what rules are at play etc. in a programming language independent fashion. It is part of a larger tutorial on how to implemen Tetris in Adobe Flex. If you are a fan of either Tetris or Flex, this text would most likely be interesting to you!
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My presentation at Warsaw Flash Camp 2009

On June 9th the Polish Adobe User Group organized a Flash Camp in Warsaw. It was the first meeting of this kind in Poland. I had the privilege to be one of the speakers . It was a one day event featuring 6 sessions all related to Flash & Flex. It aroused great interest in the local Flash Community and more than 300 people attended We kicked off in the morning with a very comprehensive presentation by Serge Jespers on the Flash Platform. Serge went through a lot of interestin
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The Spring of Flex Remoting - slides & demo

I had the chance to present at the Riveria JUG on Friday, I had one hour to cover a lot of materials. We discussed the Adobe Flash/Flex/AIR/RIA Enterprise Solutions, I also quickly demonstrated Flash Catalyst.
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Flash Player 10 Beta for Smartphones at MAX

This week Adobe
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AdobeLearn.com - All Adobe Product Tutorials

What it does Do you usually work with Adobe products? Are you interested in getting to know more about them? If that is your case you will enjoy this site vey much. Adobelearn.com is the online resources where you will learn anything you need to know about any single Adobe product. Simple, fast, clear and complete, this site gives you some of the most advanced and easy-to-follow tutorials you can find on the internet when it comes to learning more about Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, PageMak
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AdobeLearn.com

table.dptable { width:100%; border:0; } tr.dphead { background-color:#0066CC; color:#FFFFFF; font-weight:bold; } tr.dphead td a { color:#FFFFFF; } tr.dprow { background-color:#FFFFFF; } tr.dprowalt { background-color:#CCCCCC; } #dpcols-contact { text-align:center; } #intro { } What it does Do you usually work with Adobe products? Are you interested in getting to know more about them? If that is your case you will enjoy this site vey much. Adobelearn.com is the online resources where
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Are you ready for Adobe LiveCycle Data Services 3 (beta)?

Adobe LiveCycle Data Services allows Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), developed using the Adobe Flex SDK, to communicate seamlessly with LiveCycle ES. Flash Builder 4 (beta), as previously discussed, is available on Adobe Labs . Both Flash Builder and LiveCycle Data Services are important parts of the LiveCycle ES ecosystem because they allow you to rapidly develop RIAs to leverage LiveCycle ES services. So, get the exciting scoop on LiveCycle Data Services 3 at Adobe Labs. You will fi
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by Dave Carroll on June 22, 2009 at 04:10 PM

Subscribe Flex and Force.com - RIA in the Enterprise It's been a while since we introduced the Force.com Toolkit for Adobe AIR / Flex.  In that time we have seen many fascinating and successful applications built by both customers and partners.  There has also been some recent activity around the toolkit itself.As the Force.com platform and Adobe Flex platform mature more exciting opportunities for leveraging both emerge.  The new Sites feature of Force.com combined with Flex has the po
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Announcing The Winners of our Flash Builder Giveaway

Did you find out what was new and cool in Flex 4? Just over a week ago we published a new article about the Adobe Flex framework which included an Adobe-sponsored competition to win a copy of Flex Builder (and a free upgrade to Flash Builder 4 when it is released). We had three of these prizes to give away and you only had a seven-day window to enter. Well done to those readers who wasted no time answering the questions to get their names on the list! For those who missed out, keep an eye
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Designers learning guide for Fireworks CS4: Saving and exporting files from Fireworks

Learn how to work with bitmap images from other programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator.
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Flash graphic effects learning guide

Create special effects using Flash features like filters and blend modes, and learn how ActionScript gives you precise control over the display and expressiveness of effects.
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Designers learning guide for Fireworks CS4: Opening and importing bitmap images

Learn how to work with bitmap images from other programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator.
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Designers learning guide for Fireworks CS4: Using Smart Guides and tooltips for precise positioning and layout

Become familiar with the Fireworks tools that allow your place your graphics exactly where you want them.
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Designers learning guide for Fireworks CS4: Scaling objects without distortion with 9-slice scaling

Intelligently resize your vector content while maintaining its proportions.
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Flex 3 in Action book excerpt: Advanced reusability in Flex

Get an overview of some of the advanced reusability features in Flex.
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Understanding the role of CFCs in Flex application development

learn how ColdFusion Components (CFCs) can provide back-end data services to front-end Adobe Flex applications.
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Deploying the Flash application with ColdFusion URL variables

Learn to embed your Flash application code in a CFM page and pass ColdFusion variables to it that will appropriately update the Flash display.
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Binding data to Flex UI components with Adobe Flash Builder 4 beta

Learn how to use DataGrid and PieChart controls and bind them to the data returned from a ColdFusion Component (CFC) function.
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Getting started with ColdFusion and Flash Builder 4 beta

Learn to set up a ColdFusion data source and Flash Builder project, and retrieve data from a CFC method and bind it to a Flex user interface element.
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Flash Builder 4 beta for ColdFusion developers

Learn about the data-centric features in Flash Builder 4 beta and how developers can easily use Flash Builder and ColdFusion to create Flex applications.
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Creating ColdFusion Master/Detail forms with Adobe Flash Builder 4

Learn to populate a ComboBox control with a data list of employees, customize the display, and generate a form that presents editable information about a selected employee.
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Managing ColdFusion data with Adobe Flash Builder 4 beta

Learn to use the Flash Builder Data Management wizard to map CRUD operations between an application and server by creating ActionScript event handlers for UI controls.
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Generating ColdFusion forms with Adobe Flash Builder 4 beta

Learn to generate a form using a custom data type and populate the form with the employee sales data returned from a search tool.
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What's new in the Flex 4 SDK beta

Learn what you'll find as you explore the Flex 4 SDK beta.
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What's new in Flash Builder 4 beta

Learn about the three main feature themes in this release.
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Differences between Flex 3 and Flex 4 beta

Learn about the differences in architecture, components, layouts, use of states, and effects.
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Building a data-centric application using Flash Catalyst beta and Flash Builder 4 beta

Explore the Flash Catalyst beta and Flash Builder beta workflow.
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Getting started with Adobe Flash Catalyst beta

Learn the basics of interaction design in Flash Catalyst beta.
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Building data-driven map applications using the Flex DataMap control

Create a Flex application using the Yahoo! Maps component and data-driven techniques.
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Using Drupal themes with Dreamweaver CS4

Understand the fundamentals of a Drupal theme and how Dreamweaver CS4 helps designers produce these themes.
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Performance tuning for ColdFusion applications

Explore different ways to improve ColdFusion application performance.
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Effects in Adobe Flex 4 beta

Learn how to take your Flex applications to the next level with the new effects included in the Flex 4 SDK beta.
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Adobe LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta is here

Adobe LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta is here. As always LCDS team has added lots of new features and made improvements to existing features. With LCDS 3 beta application development is much faster and developers can use features like Reliable communications and Data throttling . We have new technology from Adobe, code named Fiber. Fiber lets you do model-driven development . With this release of LCDS, Adobe also released a graphical modeling editor called Fiber modeler plugin , which al
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Tutorial on model-driven development using Flash Builder 4 and LiveCycle DS 3

In this article we will see how we can do model-driven development using Flash Builder 4 and LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta. At the end of this article we will have a Flex application using which we can perform operations on the data in a database table. We will build this Flex application just using Adobe tools and not writing any Flex or Java code Install LCDS 3 Download LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta from this URL http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/livecycle_dataservices3/ . You will
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RunPee During Your Weekend Movie

RunPee.com is a thoughtful Flex-based website that
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Evaluating Flash and Flex Content with aDesigner

I asked Jon Avila at SSBBART Group to record a demonstration of the use of the Eclipse tool aDesigner to help evaluate Flash and Flex content for accessibility. He used Adobe Captivate to record his use of the tool and provides useful commentary. aDesigner provides very useful functionality and it is much more user friendly than my old standby, Inspect32. Take a look, and as always, please provide any feedback you have. aDesigner is a project of the Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF).
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Purchase Flex Builder

You can purchase Flex Builder at the Adobe Store via the banner (you
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Today in Open Source Flex SDK Commits (6/17)

Here are a few of the more interesting API changes in the beta Flex 4 SDK from Wednesday: [svn:fx-trunk] 7916: Last of the List PARB changes - selectedItems is now a Vector of Objects and selectedIndices is a Vector of Numbers. [svn:fx-trunk] 7918: Round 2 of effects PARB changes. [svn:fx-trunk] 7925: PopUpAnchor PARB Changes [svn:fx-trunk] 7938: PopUpAnchor PARB Part 2 [svn:fx-trunk] 7939: Slider PARB Changes For more information on the various PARB renames, see the mast
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Design an Application like a Movie

When an end user steps up to use an application, the whole experience end to end is like a movie. The user does this, then does that, and then that other thing all using various states of an application. Now although different users perform these scenes in different order, designing each scene should be thought about with the same precision as designing a movie scene. We tend not to design around usability like this, instead we think about the raw things the user needs to do rather than the whol
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Speaking at the Flash Platform & CF pre-Launch event in Chennai

On the 27th June 2009, The CF & Flex User Groups in Chennai are collaborating to conduct a Flash Platform & CF pre-Launch event at Hotel Dee Cee Manor in Chennai. It is a full day event with ColdFusion and Flash Platform Sessions followed by Hands-on experience using Flash Builder and ColdFusion. Bring your laptops so that you can experience the software yourselves. I will be there from Adobe along with Manju Kiran , a Sr.Lead Software Engineer Adobe ColdFusion team and will show exci
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Web Roundup: 21 Creative Flash Portfolios

Flash portfolios are a great way to showcase what you
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eMag Solutions Offers On-site Data Collection for Law Firms and Corporations

eMag Solutions, LLC, an international provider of enterprise content management (ECM) and electronic discovery solutions, offers unmatched international on-site collection capabilities. In addition to having the flexibility to be almost anywhere at anytime, eMag is able to process massive amounts of data without that data ever leaving a client
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DNS Made Easy Announces Successful Internship Program

In May of 2009, DNS Made Easy launched their Summer Internship Program, designed to give students real-world IT experience. ( Vocus / PRWEB ) June 17, 2009
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Setting the selected indices on a Spark List control in Flex 4

The following example shows how you can set the selected indices on a Spark List control in Flex 4 by setting the selectedIndices property to a Vector object. For more information on MXML Vector support in Flex 4, see the MXML Vector Support spec on the Adobe Open Source Flex SDK site. Full code after the jump. (more
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Build a Dynamic Accordion Menu in Flash CS4 with ActionScript 3.0 and XML

In this tutorial you will learn how to build an accordion style menu from scratch that can be configured by using an external file. The menu items can be totally configured in XML with label and can load text, image or swf on it
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Adobe RTMP Specification Available

Nearly five months after announcing that the Real Time Messaging Protocol would be made open, Adobe has finally made it available (PDF Alert!). The seventy-page spec is a set of four documents explaining the license, the RTMP chunk stream, the message formats, and the command messages. RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol) is the multimedia protocol used to create products and technology that enable transmission of video, audio, and data in the open AMF, SWF, FLV, and F4V formats compatible
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Today in Open Source Flex SDK Commits (6/16)

Continuing the trend started from Monday's post, "Today in Open Source Flex SDK Commits (6/15)" , here are a few of the more interesting API changes in the Flex 4 SDK from Tuesday: [svn:fx-trunk] 7879: WindowedApplication/Window P-ARB changes. [svn:fx-trunk] 7884: PARB Skin and SkinPart changes. [svn:fx-trunk] 7889: First batch of PARB changes to List, ListBase, ItemRenderer and IItemRenderer as documented here: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Rename+List [svn
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Microsoft Silverlight Challenges Adobe AIR

Martin Heller(InfoWorld) shares some thoughts about Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe AIR : Microsoft Silverlight 3 is catching up to the capabilities of Adobe Flash, Flex, and AIR in all the areas where Silverlight was behind. Silverlight 3 applications can run in or out of the browser, online or offline, with much improved audio, video, and 3-D graphics.
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Did You Notice Our Subscribers List?!

Did you notice our subscribers list update? Now, you can receive Graphic Mania all posts and and free resources updates right to your email address, in full HTML and images. You can save the images and backgrounds you need directly to your computer and get the free resources download links saved to your email for further need. Also, Joining Graphic Mania Free Resources News will allow you to be the first to know about Graphic Mania free graphic and web resources updates as well as the
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Google Maps - Heat Map

Hi, We have a large data set, and would like our data displayed on google as a heat map. The system should excute a sql query to grab the daily stats from our database. (We can send you the SQL statement to use). Then the system should take the results, and on a daily basis add it to the heatmap. We should be able to enter a date range so we can see how the data look on different data range. The system should also have a time line type of scroller, that will make it easier to scroll on to
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Adobe MAX 2009 few mobile sessions

The Adobe MAX 2009 planning is underway and speakers and sessions are posted on the site including the mobile sessions . I counted 10 mobile related sessions but only 1 or 2 are focusing on Flash Lite . Couple of sessions for Air mobile and Flex mobile. Dale is the only known developer in the Flash Lite community to be there as a speaker. Seems that the economy had a big impact on mobile for MAX. Given this, who is planning in the Flash Lite community to go? Alessandro
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Rounding Up An Eventful Week

Adobe Flex & Adobe AIR Adobe AIR has now been installed over 200 million times . Adrian Ludwig of the Adobe AIR team recaps the various territories it has been adopted into: social apps (mostly Twitter apps, I think), enterprise apps (Salesforce, Oracle), government apps (the Polish Finance Ministry), and what I call novelty apps (like the Fast & Furious widget and the HP Green). I reported the 100 million milestone only four months ago, hearty congratulations to Adobe AIR team, and
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Air mobile and Flex mobile, where Flash Lite fits?

At Adobe MAX 2009 there will be couple of sessions on Air mobile and Flex mobile. Now where Flash Lite fits into this ? What is the road map for Flash Lite ? Will Flash Lite content be compatible with Air Mobile and Flex Mobile? These are important questions to be answered for anyone that is currently investing money and time and it would be great to have a clear answer. Alessandro
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HTML 5 SHOULD Kill Flash and Silverlight

A great article has appeared about how HTML 5 really should finally kill off the proprietary Flash and Silverlight browser add-ons. HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development , one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash , Microsoft Silverlight , and Sun JavaFX All this focus on Flex/Flash and Silverlight is really besid
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Adobe launches acrobat.com

Today Adobe launched Acrobat.com ! Acrobat.com is a new web conferencing service that lets you easily meet, share, and collaborate online. And for a limited time, purchase an Acrobat.com Premium subscription and save up to $50 (offer expires July 16, 2009). Use the below promo code to get the discount: PROMO CODE: acrobat50
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Full Version Everest Ultimate Edition Free Download with License

German Software Downloads site Pro.de is offering Everest Ultimate Edition 4.6 full version with genuine license key. The current latest 5.02 costs $34.95 to buy. Everest is an industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking diagnostics tool furnishes users with comprehensive and useful software, hardware and security information. During system optimizations and tweaking it provides essential system and over clock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to
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Search Engine Optimization for Beginners - Owen Sound Sun Times

Search Engine Optimization for Beginners - Owen Sound Sun Times Search engine optimization is more popularly known as SEO. It goes by other names such as search engine optimizer. Before you embark in the world of search engine optimization, you Search Engine Optimization - Increasing Your Backlinks Easily - Turks.US When you are implementing Search Engine Optimization (SEO), then a term that you need to familiarize yourself with is backlink. Many just consider this Internet Marketing str
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Microsoft Silverlight 3 challenges Adobe AIR

Will many Adobe shops to give up their Flash, Flex, and AIR for Silverlight 3?Microsoft Silverlight 3 is catching up to the capabilities of Adobe Flash, Flex, and AIR in all the areas where Silverlight was behind. Silverlight 3 applications can run in or out of the browser, online or offline, with much improved audio, video, and 3-D graphics.written by Macworld UK News \\ tags: 3G, free, Free iPhone 3G News, iphone, News, UK
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Build a contact manager in Flex 3 with ZendAMF; Part Two - Coding the CRUD & Final Release

The complete result of this 2 part tutorial is a contact manager built in flex that uses ZendAMF to store data in mysql. In the this second part we will code all the application and backend functions using Flex 3 + ZendAMF + Php 5 + MySql. This part will use a general crud system (Create, Read, Update and Delete) that is similar to the most applications needs. You will be able to write you own application from scratch. Requirements Have read, and made the first part of this tutorial here
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Sexy,

Adobe released Acrobat.com Tables yesterday which promises to be
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Cold Beer and ColdFusion Event This Wednesday

The LA Adobe user group is hosting a special event on Wednesday night, June 17th at 7pm at the Mahalo office on 902 Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica. For this event, their collaborating with the new LA ColdFusion User Group, the LA Flex User Group and the LA Air User Group to present Flex some Cold Beer and ColdFusion! An entire evening celebrating the launch of the newest releases of Adobe Flex and ColdFusion. Continuing a long tradition of innovation, Adobe is pushing the boundaries of the Ado
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Today in Open Source Flex SDK Commits (6/15)

A few big/interesting check-ins happening in the beta Flex 4 SDK today... [svn:fx-trunk] 7836: PARB changes for effects. [svn:fx-trunk] 7862: GraphicElement PARB Changes [svn:fx-trunk] 7851: Move spark.skins.default.* to spark.skins.spark.*. [svn:fx-trunk] 7864: Move the airframework spark.skins.default.* to spark. skins.spark.* Curious about what else is goin' on in the Wonderful World of Adobe Flex SDK Open Source-ness? Check out the Adobe Open Source Flex SDK Commits foru
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Woodwing Adds Broad Browser Support, New Features for Editors

WoodWing ( news , site )  helps new and traditional media to work smarter through the use of technology. Its latest content manager sees the company open its arms to the new generation of browsers.
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Sneak Peek of Proxy Tags in ColdFusion 9

June 11th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Ryan Stewart has an interesting video up on Adobe TV showing the ColdFusion proxy tags for use in Flex based apps. Shows the ability to call ColdFusion functionality directly from Flex without having to write the server side code yourself. This feature will likely be available with the release of ColdFusion 9 aka Centaur. No TweetBacks yet. (Be the first to Tweet this post) This work, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Com
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Money To Spare? Rolex Watches Can Make a Statement

by Ronald C. Lundy Rolex is one of the few brands to be world known. When many people think of the name Rolex they often time picture people of extreme wealth. Very few individuals will ever come into enough money to purchase a Rolex watch. But those who are wealthy might be in the market for one. When you think about it can you justify paying such large amounts of money for a single watch? Manufacturing about 2,000 watches per day Rolex is the worlds largest supplier of top of the line luxu
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Q and A: Are Flex (Flash) based websites search engine friendly?

Hi Kalena, I am planning to build a website completely in Flex. What type of SEO can be done on it? Is it crawlable? Shailendra Sial. Dear Shailendra Building a Flex (Flash) based website has always been the bone of contention between website designers and SEO professionals. While website designers argue that it provides great interactivity and a chance to explore the boundaries of creativity (which is quite true), SEO professionals contend that it is not search engine friendly. This sce
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Adobe, Flex, Flash Front-End Software Expert (Rio Rancho)

City: Albuquerque Start-Up corporation needs to develop a stronger online presence. Advertisement: read more
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What's New and Cool in Flex 4?

The release of Flex 4 beta 1 has been some time coming. It has had a very public development process which began back in August last year, when Adobe revealed early builds of Flex 4
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Need Adobe Flex / Flash Expert

We need couple of real adobe flex / Flash ( AS2/ AS3) expert who can work on Online Designer/ T-shirt Designer E-commerce project. Please quote as a 1 hour cost. We have couple of project regarding this. We would like to maintain a long term relationship. Remember we need daily communications. Must Be online 8 [...]
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Morgan Stanley raises the bar for rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash Platform technologies

Morgan Stanley have launched a comprehensive online trading tool called
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Rounding Up Another Flex 4 and Flash Catalyst Week

The Adobe Flex team is conducting three free online seminars this week covering the new features of Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst. A session each for PHP developers, Flash Catalyst, and ColdFusion developers will be conducted this Tue, Wed and Thu respectively. Lee Brimelow uploaded a two-part tutorial on Flex Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst. Carlos Pinho found that Lynda.com is offering a training video course Flash Catalyst Beta Preview completely free to the public. Ted Patr
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Flash Catalyst ROCKS

If you have not yet gotten your hands on the beta of Flash Catalyst , what are you waiting for?!?!?! I think this is one of the coolest pieces of technology I have seen in a long time! OK, you need to take that with a grain of salt coming from someone on the enterprise software side :-) The bottom line is that anything that makes it easy for a design challenged person like me to import visual comps and be able to implement the code behind them
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Programming news: Google open sources Page Speed, Adobe releases betas of new tools

Get news highlights about the CodeWorks conference for PHP developers, free Web hosting to try out new .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 features, and more. You
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Data-centric Adobe Flash Builder development with the Zend Framework

The recent release of Adobe Flash Builder 4 Beta (formerly Adobe Flex Builder) includes an impressive lineup of features aimed at enterprise PHP development
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Explore the world of Web 2.0Computer & ITAdd comments

Web 2.0 is really one of the most misunderstood terms floating around the Internet at the moment.We have had a wide variety of questions and comments related to Web 2.0. Things like
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Next Up Is NYC

Yesterday's usergroup presentation in Washington, D.C. went very well. Lots of excitement, good (and some tough) questions, and the interactivity I've come to expect from this group. What I did not expect was the poor turnout, this has been one of the best attended groups for over a decade, and yesterday's numbers were the lowest I have seen for this group. That was quite a disappointment, but I'll chalk it up to the suddenly nasty weather (which also wrecked havoc on flight in the area). After
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Using ColdFusion as a Service inside of Flex

One of my Adobe TV videos just got posted on using ColdFusion tags inside of Flex with some of the new functionality in ColdFusion Centaur. As an old school CF developer I love the fact that I can now take advantage of the power of CF from directly inside my Flex application.
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Error Handling in ActionScript 3: Don

Preface At the latest WWDC it was announced that the #1 reason Safari crashes for users is because of Flash, hence the new plug-in sequestering (i.e. if Flash blows up real good , it
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Open Source Configuration Tool for Actionscript 2 & 3

Sprouts is an Open Source Configuration Tool for Actionscript 2 & 3 . It is a generation and configuration tool for ActionScript2/3, Adobe AIR Flash and Flex. You can easily build scripts, remote managed libraries and automatic install dependencies like the Flash VM and a variety of compilers and tools. Sprouts Features Generate new programming projects from a growing variety of project templates Easily generate classes, test cases, test suites and more Automatically
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Press Release - 4Point acquires FormDriven

4Point today announced its acquisition of FormDriven, a sophisticated authoring tool that facilitates the design and development of interactive intelligent PDF forms within a rich, engaging interface built with Adobe (R) Flex(R), a key component of the Adobe(R) Flash(R) Platform. This acquisition strengthens 4Point's offering of repeatable solutions built on Adobe enterprise technology. OTTAWA, June 11 /PRNewswire/ - 4Point (Four Point Solutions Ltd.) is a leading Adobe Gold Solution Partner. H
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Spring BlazeDS Integration 1.0.0 Released

The first GA release of Spring BlazeDS Integration, the open source solution for building Spring-powered RIAs with Adobe Flex, is now available.
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Embiggening the Tent

The first Android-related Google I/O session will be by Dan Morrill, How Do I Code Thee? Let Me Count the Ways : Should you write your app in (Java), to integrate cleanly and seamlessly with the system? Should you write your app in the Browser as
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Best Adobe Flash Resource Sites

Flashtuts+ Flashtuts+ is a blog/Flash site made to house and showcase some of the best Flash, ActionScript and Flex tutorials around. Flash Kit Flash Kit is a one stop raw materials centre for flash creations, containing thousands of open source movies, online tutorials, help forums, sound effects and loops, and fonts. FlashPerfection FlashPerfection is the place for you to submit your Flash tutorials, tips and tricks. FlashPerfection incredib
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AutoDesk DragonFly - An Awesome 3D Home Design Software meets the Web

Autodesk as a company is well known for producing some of the best 3D design and architecture software in the world including AutoCAD, Revit, 3DS Max and Maya. Now they are eyeing the home consumer market with the launch of DragonFly - a web based do-it-yourself home design and interior decoration tool. DragonFly, in simply English, is like an online version of Google Sketchup that
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Privet From Moscow

I am in Moscow for a couple of days, the last stop on this Eastern European trip (and yes, I know that it's a day off in the U.S., but I seem to manage to always be working out of the country on days off!). I spent the day with customers and journalists in Adobe's Moscow office. I've met hundreds of journalists over the years, but these three impressed me with the range and depth of their questions on everything from Flex and AIR technical details to competitive positioning to the Adobe Macromed
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Fx namespace change spurs controversy again

The Flex community revolted against the Fx prefix when it was first introduced by Adobe within a early alpha of Flex 4. A bug was filed and it was voted on and Adobe listened to the community and removed it, opting for a new namespace for the Spark components in place of the (http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Dropping+the+Fx+Prefix) Fx [...]
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Need Document Cleaned Up

I have a ~85 page microsoft word document that I need to have cleaned up, garbage characters removed, miss-spellings corrected, formatted, images, Table of contents created with new page numbers, etc. Need quick turnaround. Thanks Tags: cleaned , document , document cleaned , need document , need document cleaned Related projects Need Document Cleaned Up Writing Document/ Content Word Multiple Doc Cut & Paste Word Document Templates & Db Word Do
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Flex 4 Layouts on Tech Talk with Ryan Stewart

One of my favorite features in Flex 4 is the ability to easily apply custom layouts to your components. It
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JVC Launches New Full HD LCD Monitor Theat Targets Digital SLR Users

28 May 2009  |  Daily News
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Adobe launches Flash Catalyst tool for rapid UI design

Adobe has announced the availability of the first beta release of Flash Catalyst, a new design tool that aims to accelerate the development of rich user interfaces. The product is intended to complement Adobe's Flex development tool, which the company has rebranded as Flash Builder. The introduction of Catalyst reflects a move towards greater diversity in Adobe's lineup of Flash authoring tools. This change is necessitated by Flash's growing acceptance as a platform for client application dev
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Top 10 Changes in Flex 4

This week, Adobe released their first official beta of Flex 4, codenamed Gumbo. The release includes a number of major changes. This list gives a high level overview of the items that have changed in the latest version of the popular RIA framework.
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ESRI Sample Flex Viewer is on Tour de Flex

The Sample Flex Viewer from ESRI is up on T our De Flex now. The Sample Flex Viewer developed using ESRI ArcGIS API for Flex and Adobe Flex. This sample viewer was designed to showcase some of the core capabilities of the ArcGIS Platform through a simple, modern, Web2.0 style and RIA based user interface. This sample may be used in compiled form with simple modifications to its configuration file, or its source code can be used by application developers to further explore and understand some
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So what is Flex then, again?!

With the release of the new Flash Builder 4 beta yesterday, it
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Flash Builder 4 And Flash Catalyst Now On Labs

Title says it all, public beta versions of Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder) and Flash Catalyst are now available for download on Adobe Labs.
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Adobe releases trio of Labs goodies for designers, developers

Filed under: Design , Developer , Windows , Macintosh , Adobe , Commercial , Beta , Windows x64 Adobe has been busily working away on the Flash/Flex platform, announcing late yesterday that three new releases were headed to Adobe Labs. The Flex SDK has reached version 4 , and Flex Builder has been re-branded as Flash Builder . The new version delivers loads of new functionality and focuses on three keys: developer productivity, designer-developer workflow, and data-centric developm
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New content for Flex 4 SDK beta, Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst beta releases

TONS of new content released today in support of the Flash Builder 4, Flex 4 SDK and Flash Catalyst betas! Flash Builder 4 on Adobe Labs Flex 4 SDK on Adobe Labs Flash Catalyst on Adobe Labs Learn to Use Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 SDK Learn to Use Flash Catalyst Tutorial and demonstration videos for the Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst and Adobe Flex 4 SDK betas Differences between Flex 3 SDK & Flex 4 SDK beta What's new in Flex 4 SDK beta Flex f
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Adobe Launches Some Flash Platform Beta Releases

Today Adobe announced the launch of some new beta releases for the Adobe Flash Platform. These are Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder), Flash Catalyst and the open source Flex 4 framework SDK. "People are now expecting the same richness and ease of use in their workplace applications that they have in their daily Web experiences, but companies today are faced with strained development resources and less time to create intuitive applications," said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice
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Dynamic Visualization: Introduction & Theory

(I wish to publish some professional posts to provide a vocabulary for anyone interested in the topologies of modern information visualization theory
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Flash Catalyst now on Labs; free training available

If you want to turn Photoshop & Illustrator designs into interactive compositions quickly, without coding, Adobe Flash Catalyst is designed for you. Catalyst imports PSD, AI, and Fireworks PNG files, then lets you assign behaviors including animations & 3D effects. A beta of the app is now available for download from Adobe Labs. To get up to speed quickly, check out Mordy Golding's free Flash Catalyst Beta Preview video training course. It's an hour of solid material broken i
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Flex4/FlashBuilder4/Flash Catalyst Links

It's been a busy day. I've twittered/re-tweeted a bunch of these links, but thought I'd do a quick blog entry concerning some links that I think may be important for folks taking a look at the new goodness released today on Adobe Labs . Most likely some of these links repeat the same content, but I hope folks find it helpful. First off, check out this video by Tim Buntel: Flash Builder 4 (is it FlashBuilder or Flash Builder?) beta 4 for ColdFusion developers. It is a 12 minute video that y
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Adobe Flex 4 is Here

The Adobe Flex 4 SDK Beta has been released. The release has been planned to align with that of Adobe Flex Flash Builder 4 Beta and Adobe Flash Catalyst . The latter is a new tool that has been much talked about in the community has a
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Adobe rips off / the wraps on Catalyst

Two announcements from Adobe today. First the bad news
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What's New in Adobe Flex 4

This summer brings the first full public preview of Adobe Flex 4 (codenamed Gumbo). The Flex 4 beta comes with a number of significant updates and enhancements to the platform.
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Logicly, a logic gate simulator

Logicly simulates the boolean algebra performed by logic gates, which are a vital part of digital circuitry and computer achitecture. Built by Josh Tynjala with Adobe Flex, this application showcases flexwires , an open source component library for creating drag-and-drop data connections. Click to launch. @ haha.nu Related posts: Attractions simulator - Remember those sim-games? Now you can run your own attractions (four, to be exact, all are from Disn The temperature
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Flash's Grand Unification

Theme: Technologies which are useful and lasting do not always grow in a straight line. A useful technology will often fragment to explore alternative niches. But a lasting technology will then find ways to unite that fragmentation, creating a larger, more interesting technology ecosystem. A subtle aspect to this week's milestone: With Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder, Flex Framework and FXG, there's now a coherent creation process uniting the creative design worlds and the coding development
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Adobe Announces New Flash Platform Tools

/India PRwire/ - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced further advancements to the Adobe
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Adobe releases Flash-base tools

Adobe released beta versions of three programming projects for producing online applications that run in its Flash Player : First is  Flash Catalyst , a programming tool that lets designers create a Flash application's user interface in Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator applications. Second, is  Flash Builder 4  (previously called Flex Builder) is based on the Eclipse programming software, employs Adobe's open-source Flex framework for building advanced Flash applications and is for the serious
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Create real water effects with Flash CS4 & ActionScript 3.0

In this Flash CS4 tutorial you will learn a advanced technique called perlinNoise to create a realistic water effect into any image. We will show you how to apply it in two different situations, one in a river, creating the water effect in whole image, and the other one in a waterfall using a more complex process as it will reproduce the effect in a specific area. Final Result: Before Start: This example will use some advanced action script elements like displacementMapFilter , p
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Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst Betas Now Available

We just dropped the bits for both the Flash Builder beta and the Flash Catalyst beta . These represent a big jump in how people are going to work with the Flex Framework and I
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CartoVista Now Supports Adobe Flex

DBx Geomatics Inc. recently released CartoVista v2.0 with full support for Adobe Flex. CartoVista is a dynamic data visualization suite that can be used to build and publish rich dashboards and perform dynamic data analysis. The below image shows the impressive architecture of various modules of the suite. The new CartoVista API is the module that has been developed to integrate with HTML/Javascript and Adobe Flex. For an in depth tour of each of its modules
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Get Rid of the Dead Wood

I have an op ed in today
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Flash on the Beach 2009

With only four more months to go until one of the biggest and most popular Flash conferences in the UK kicks off, now might be the time to sign-up for Flash on the Beach 2009 . Event: Flash on the Beach Where: Brighton, England When: September 20 - 23, 2009 What
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Facebook Pages vs Facebook Groups: What's the Difference?
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Adobe Creative Suite 4 Productivity

Pushing the boundaries of integration and productivity New Adobe
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The Cool-er E Ink reader isn

The $250 Cool-er E Ink reader is no stranger to TeleRead community members . We
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Register for Flash Camp UK, June 16th

Following on from the success of the previous Flash and Flex Camp events held in London, it
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Blueprint

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Flex 4 Namespaces and the Boy Who Cried EPIC FAIL!

A few months ago I posted about being strongly adamantly against the use of Fx Prefixes in the Flex 4 SDK. In fact I probably went a little overboard - but holy crap, kittens lives were at stake! In the end the Flex team made what I think was the right decision and began moving away from Fx Prefixes in favor of using namespaces. Yay! However, the impact of this change recently hit Aral Balkan , a prominent Flash community member, and suddenly the controversy was reborn. In Aral
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London, Manchester, Edinburgh - don

The organisers of Scotch on the Rocks are taking the annual conference on tour next week, setting up in London on Monday (1st), Manchester on Wednesday (3rd) and ending up in Edinburgh on Friday (5th). There is lots happening in relation to the Flash Platform this year - new releases of the Flex framework, Flash Builder and ColdFusion and completely new tools in the shape of Bolt (the code-name for the new ColdFusion IDE) and Flash Catalyst. Scotch on the Rocks is going to be THE place
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Three Advanced Flex events minus three rejections

Yesterday, my colleague and I received notifications from Adobe MAX organizers that started with words
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Are you there?

Yes, but I
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Web Form Creates Pdf Document

Seeking Scripter or possibly API Programmer to create web-based form, no flash unless necessary, with ability to upload pics and provide signature then propagate into PDF form after submission. Other variables may be required. Tags: creates , creates pdf , document , form , form creates , pdf , pdf document , pdf document programming , web , web form , web form creates Related projects Web Form That Updates An Xml Web Form Submission Web Form Needs Captcha In Php
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Capture images from Youtube FLV videos as PNG or JPEG

Y ou might have the caps of (screen captured images)of videos in forums and other websites . There are many software tools to get images from video files . RichFLV is one one such application which can capture image screenshot specially from Youtube or FLV videos . RichFLV is not just a screen capture tool ,its an FLV editor and can convert and modify FLV media into number of other formats . Earlier we reviewed Adobe AIR applications like Google analytics , Facebook and Twitter desktop
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Picnik Premium is a Blogger

Image via CrunchBaseI think it was last summer when I first discovered Picnik for adding effects to photos.  My teenage sister was doing all kinds of crazy things to her photos.  Then at Blissdom, I was lucky enough to get a coupon code for a free year subscription to Picnik Premium, giving me more advanced features, fonts, and functionality than the standard edition.  Since then Picnik has become my go-to tool for any graphic design needs I have for my blog and related branding.With exception o
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Wacom Intuos4 Is Here!

/India PRwire/ - Wacom
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Announcing Adobe Flash Platform Tools Preview

I am sure you have all been hearing about the new and exciting tools that we at Adobe have been building. We will preview many of these new innovations - Adobe Flash Builder (formerly known as Flex Builder), Adobe Flash Catalyst , upcoming versions of LiveCycle and BlazeDS at the
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Custom blend modes for Flash 10

In the last few months I have been working on a collection of blendmodes for Flash 10 which extend the limited set of blendmodes currently and inconsistently supplied by Adobe applications. This can help to achieve all kinds of motion effects which I won't go into detail here but if you know a little about After Effects you will know that some of these are rather exciting. If you are familiar with the Adobe product line there is inconsistency between Photoshop/Illustrator/Flash/Fireworks/InDes
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Job Opening: Flash Platform Developer

We are looking for some smart Flash Platform Developers who can be part of our team in Allies Interactive Services Pvt. Ltd. , Kanpur, U.P. We are a design and development company in Kanpur, though we are small but we are ambitious and have a great vision. I posted the details on Flex-India sometimes back, pasting the same (edited the typos and formatted) over here:- I have been meaning to post this for sometime but thought would it be appropriate to do that here? I am part of a small
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Grails 1.1.1, Gr8conf, AppEngine and other happenings

Just got back from Gr8conf and really had a blast. It was a nice small group of 90-100 which meant you could really have a lot of one on one time with many of the attendees who had questions. The sessions were also not too short. Having that extra bit of time to elaborate on things makes a real different compared to the 45 minute rush you have at JavaOne et al. All in all it felt more like a No Fluff event, which can only be described as a good thing. Right before the conference we released
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Action Script 3.0 Expert

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Announcing DVRCast and FLVPlayback update

Today we released two free tools; the new DVRCast application for Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5, and an update to FLVPlayback component. You can find them both on the Flash Media Server productivity tools page: http://www.adobe.com/go/fms_tools/ . You can read more from a new article from David Hassoun posted here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/live_dvr_pt2.html Some Background Live streaming on the web has exploded with Flash over the past 12 months - thank
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Useful Adobe Flash frameworks and graphical engines for developers

Are you an Adboe Flash developers? In this post you can find some really interesting Flash frameworks and graphical engines that help you develop quickly complex Rich Internet Application and Flash-based games. This list includes graphic UI elements, Flash and Flex components, a physical engine and an open source component to create isometric games with Flash. Gaia Framework Gaia is an open-source front-end Flash Framework for AS3 and AS2 designed to dramatically reduce development time.
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Adobe LiveCycle ES Java service invocation

Learn how to remotely invoke services using the APIs and SOAP endpoints.
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Understanding ActionScript 3 debugging in Flash

Whether you're a designer or developer, learn the basics of debugging and understand the most common issues that occur in debugging ActionScript 3 projects in Flash CS4 Professional.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Understanding video formats and controlling video volume in Flash Lite 3.x

Learn how to control the volume of embedded video in a Flash Lite 3.x mobile application.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Prototyping AIR applications with Fireworks

Leverage the features in Fireworks to create an interactive prototype of an AIR app using reusable graphic assets.
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Building a Drupal site in 10 steps

Get an overview of how to set up a Drupal site, including adding content and altering menus, modules, and themes.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development excerpt: Building Your First AIR Application

Apply an OOP approach to building your first AIR application.
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AdvancED Flex 3: Sculpting interactive business intelligence interfaces

Learn about the techniques available in Flex to represent, aggregate, and manipulate data effectively for BI scenarios.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Developer spotlight: Elad Elrom

Meet Elad Elrom, picked for his use of Flex and Flash to create applications for the web, desktop, and mobile devices.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

AIR 1.5: Building Desktop Applications with Flex 3

Learn building AIR applications with this structured training course.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Adobe AIR in Action excerpt: Copy and paste, drag and drop

Learn how to implement these simple operations well in your AIR applications.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Protecting Flash Lite content packaged in a Symbian installer with OMA DRM 1.0 Forward Lock

Learn how to package your mobile content into a SIS installer and apply digital rights management.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Using Dreamweaver, InContext Editing, and Spry to build a dynamic site

Learn to build a simple dynamic site that users without HTML or Ajax knowledge can edit online.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Invoking the LiveCycle ES 8.2.1 Distiller API from Java

Convert a PostScript file to a PDF file from Java using LiveCycle ES.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

Uploading a file with Flex and Java

Learn how to implement file upload functionality with a Flex front end and a Java servlet.
Publication date: 2009-05-23 more

The Need For AIR Apps That Can Do Nothing

A common defect in most AIR applications that I
Publication date: 2009-05-22 more

Get a legal version of Adobe Flex Builder for free

Adobe has been trying hard to build an ecosystem around Flex, which is a collection of technologies for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform. In order to woo more developers to use Flex, they are giving away free copies of Adobe Flex Builder. In order to get these free copies you have be A student or a faculty or employed in an educational institution A developer who is unemployed due to layoff. To get these free
Publication date: 2009-05-22 more

Merapi Now Open Source

I am in Adam Flater
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Gigya Secures Distribution Deal with Adobe

This was announced a few weeks ago , but it's notable nonetheless.  Widget infrastructure company Gigya has announced a partnership with Adobe to go live this summer in which Gigya sharing and tracking tools will be tightly integrated into Adobe's software: In the first phase, Project Radiate will make Gigya
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Spicy Web Designer Interview with Lendl Allen Trazo

Lendl Allen Trazo is a web designer originally from Cebu in the Philippines (currently in Dubai). He graduated from AMA Computer University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. He started designing websites back in college and has been designing professionally for the past 5 years. He is mainly
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Spring BlazeDS Integration 1.0.0.RC2 Released

I'm pleased to announce that the second release candidate of Spring BlazeDS Integration, the open source solution for building Spring-powered RIAs with Adobe Flex, is now available.
Publication date: 2009-05-22 more

Axiis - Open Source Data Visualization Framework

Axiis is an open source data visualization framework designed for beginner and expert developers alike. Axiis gives developers the ability to expressively define their data visualizations through concise and intuitive markup. Axiis provides both pre-built visualization components as well as abstract layout patterns and rendering classes that allow you to create your own unique visualizations. Axiis was designed to be a granular framework, allowing developers to mix and match components and b
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Web Design Industry Jargon: Glossary and Resources

Advertisement There are specialized terms referring to all sorts of aspects of web design. For someone just getting started in web design, or someone looking to have a site designed, all the technical jargon can be overwhelming. Especially the acronyms. Below is a guide to industry terms that should get you well on your way to understanding what web designers are talking about . In addition, we
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Axiis - Open Source Data Visualization

Axiis is an open source data visualization framework designed for beginner and expert developers alike. Whether you are building elegant charts for executive briefings or exploring the boundaries of advanced data visualization research, Axiis has something for you. Axiis provides both pre-built visualization components as well as abstract layout patterns and rendering classes that allow you to create your own unique visualizations. Axiis is built upon the Degrafa graphics framework and Ado
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Open Exhibits - Computer-Based Exhibits Survey Closing Soon

We will be closing our 2009 survey on computer-based interactive exhibits in museums on Monday. If you haven
Publication date: 2009-05-22 more

New York Times abandons WPF and Silverlight in favor of AIR

The first version of the New York Times Reader was showcased in 2006 as one of the first and major WPF applications. Then, the Times Reader was ported to Silverlight, so it can work on non-Windows platforms such as Mac OS and Linux. The fact that WPF runs only on Windows was indeed a major concern for such a product. The move to Silverlight was not a big success. The Silverlight version of the Times Reader suffered from technical issues and political rejection from Apple users. There were hun
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Another scream on Flash, Alchemy Memory and compilers.

Before I start, I want to explain the timeline which led to this blog post. This was supposed to become a post of being able to get much faster access to bytearray's through ActionScript, by (ab)using the Alchemy memory opcodes. I spent quite some time trying to build a swc library which would allow you to do just that. Only to learn that you can't build a generalized API for this in ActionScript. It just can't work out with the current ActionScript compiler technology; here's the story of why
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SAP Social Network Analyzer: On Company Integration

At Sapphire last week the bloggers had a great session with Timo  Elliot , one of the influx of Business Objects talent at SAP.  I was pleased that the green shoots of enterprise unstructured/social tooling progress I identified in depth last year had not been stamped out during the long night of the short knives that marks any software M&A. No siree BOBJ.  Timo pointed to the Business Objects Relationship Analysis Server (still a prototype not a product) - which takes information from
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

BlazeDS and Spring: Integrating Flex in the Enterprise

In this interview with Artima, Anil Channappa, product manager for Adobe's open-source BlazeDS project, discusses various ways to arrange data communication between a Flex client running in the Flash Player and server-side frameworks, such as Spring.
Publication date: 2009-05-19 more

Flash Builder (formally Flex Builder)

Adobe has re branded Flex Builder as Flash Builder in order to remove confusion over the outcome of the tool. How do you feel about this? Do you think this name change will accomplish this goal or will it simply lead to additional confusion over what the purposes are for Flash CS4, Flash Catalyst, Flex [...]
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Adobe Flex and IBM WebSphere Portal

IBM developerWorks: "Adobe
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Air vs Titanium (shallow comparison)

Air is Adobe
Publication date: 2009-05-18 more

The Flex seminar in Boston starts next week

Next week, we are running a two-day Flex seminar in Boston. This is one of a kind public event that
Publication date: 2009-05-18 more

Editing Pixel Bender in Eclipse with PBDT

I've often been asked if Adobe was going to do an eclipse plug-in for Pixel Bender. It's been something that we definitely wanted to do, but I wasn't sure when we would get to it. Joa Ebert decided to take advantage of the PBUtil command-line application that we ship with the Pixel Bender Toolkit SDK to create his own eclipse plug-in, PBDT . He even came up with a way to get Pixel Bender development working with Linux (another often requested feature). I've been playing with
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Count Down to CommunityOne

COMMUNITYONE WEST IS ALMOST HERE June 1 - 3, 2009  | The Moscone Center | San Francisco Complimentary registration, but space is limited. Register today with priority code CE5A . At CommunityOne West, you'll find free and open platforms, tools, and languages that you can use now for creating robust Web applications, deploying scalable infrastructures, and tapping into the agility of the cloud. CommunityOne is an open developer conference where you can advance your knowledge in sessi
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21 Web Development Trends For 2009

This list will keep all developers going for a little while. There are 21 top development trends for 2009 here. If there is anything i have missed then please feel free to drop in a comment. I would also like to say a special thanks to Louis Frankland over at Starlink UK , who has helped me out with this article. Thanks! Rapid Development Platforms (eg. codeignighter, django, RoR) Rad (Rapid application development) is a type of software development methodology. It usually involves object
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SWF to FLA Converter Download and Review

SWF to FLA Converter 4.0 FeaturesDownload SWF to FLA ConverterLatest Version (10.97 MB) Developer:Eltima SoftwareLicense / Price:Shareware / $79.95User Rating: (1 votes) Loading ...File Size:10.97 MBOffical Website:http://www.eltima.comDate Released:28-04-2009Platform:WinXP,Windows2000,Windows2003,Windows Vista Starter,Windows Vista Home Basic,Windows Vista Home Premium,Windows Vista Business,Windows Vista Enterprise,Windows Vista Ultimate,Windows Vista Home Basic x64,Windows Vista Home Premium
Publication date: 2009-05-18 more

IBM China On Flex And WebSphere Portal

IBM China software engineers have published a document on Integrating Adobe Flex and IBM WebSphere Portal .
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Adobe Developers Conference Recordings

I spent a couple of days this week at Adobe
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Next version of Flex Builder will be named Flash Builder 4!

When we named project
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Flex Builder Renamed As Flash Builder

  The Flash Blog reports that Adobe will start calling all upcoming versions of the Flex Builder as Flash Builder . Flex Builder is an Eclipse based IDE for creating Flash web applications and Adobe Air applications using a the Flex framework. The Flash Builder will still use the open source Flex framework for developing rich internet applications, the new name is simply used to clear any confusion as to the product created using this tool - it creates Flash movies in SWF format that do
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Need Activex Scripted

we need someone to write us an activeX control then embed it in our site. the site was created in adobe flex. the activex we need written will be to control an amihc360 creditcard reader. we need it to be linked to our buy it now buttons. The site we need it scripted for and embedded into is http://kiosk.tpkiosk.com Here is a sample of the activeX that we need embedded into the site: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vbscript/Kiosk100Msr.aspx?fid=156525&df=90&mpp=25&noise=3&sor
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Now Showing

Catch the encore run of
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Win a Flex Builder 3 license

Tuesday May 19th we have the Adobe Developer Day event. I will bring with me 5 posters (APIs for Flash/Flex) to give them away. If you manage to hang two sheets in a pub, you
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Adobe: Flash Builder Rebrand FAQ

We at Adobe expected that the renaming of Flex Builder to Flash Builder would cause quite a bit of conversation in the community and indeed it has. After waking up this morning and reading all the reactions on various blogs and on Twitter, I feel like I need to answer some of the questions and concerns people have. So here goes:
Publication date: 2009-05-18 more

Create Cool Line Effects using Actionscript 3.0 in Flash CS4 or Flex Builder 3

In this tutorial, you will learn the basics of architecting a simple Line Effect, like the one you can see bellow, either using Flash CS4 or Flex Builder 3. We cover the basics on the simplest way, so everyone will be able to step in the scripted animation with actionscript 3.0 and create a nice visual effects like glow and blur. Requirements One of the following: Adobe Flash CS4 Try or Buy Flex Builder 3 Try or Buy Pre-Requisites It would be useful to know how
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Rounding Up Flex Builder

Flex Builder was very much in news last week and will continue to be this week. One, the free licenses of Flex Builder for out-of-work developers has been put on hold . Two, Flex Builder is being renamed rebranded as Flash Builder starting with the next release. Peter Elst , Ryan Stewart and Lee Brimelow cheer this new development and are all surprisingly reassuring that the change doesn
Publication date: 2009-05-18 more

Magento Hosting : How to generate xml output of catalog categoty.tree

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. Start your own online store powered by magento now by hosting your store either with our recommended webhost or with the providers of the best dedicated servers This magento discussion was started by mukul on 18 May 2009 I need to generate the xml output using the api catalog_category.tree, which currently is giving some tree structure ( Array). actually i need to integrate magento with adobe flex a
Publication date: 2009-05-18 more

Software as a Service: A pattern for modern computing

Understand the core pattern of SaaS in pragmatic terms and its strategic advantages.
Publication date: 2009-05-06 more

LiveCycle ES Hosted Beta is now Live!

I got a great internal email today from Matt MacKenzie. In preparation for the next release of LiveCycle ES, Adobe is running a pre-release program and we invite you (see qualifier) to participate. We are providing our strategic customers and partners with early access to a hosted LiveCycle ES system on LiveCycle Developer Express to ensure an exciting and high quality release. What
Publication date: 2009-05-06 more

Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Motion tweens

Learn how motion tweens help you create movement with Flash, as well as minimize file size.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Frame-by-frame animation

Learn how frame-by-frame animation is best suited for complex animations in which an image changes in every frame instead of simply moving across the Stage.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Using ActionScript 3

Use ActionScript to add animation to a document, either by referencing an existing motion tween or by copying the animation from a tween span to ActionScript 3 code.
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Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Shape tweens

Make one shape appear to change into another shape over time, or create color and gradient animations.
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Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Motion presets

Learn how to add animations with a minimal number of steps, and create a custom preset to reuse throughout your documents.
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Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Overview

Read an overview of improvements made to animation in Flash CS4 Professional.
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Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Frame rates

Think about the impact of frame rate when creating animations.
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Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Motion Editor

Learn how to customize and duplicate animations easily using the Motion Editor.
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Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Timelines and keyframes

Learn about using timelines, keyframes, and layers in Flash for your animation projects.
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Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Motion tween manipulations

Learn about moving, splitting, joining, and reversing motion tweens in Flash, and more.
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Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Preset and custom eases

Learn how to apply easing to make tweens appear more realistic.
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Animation Learning Guide for Flash: Motion paths

Learn how manipulating motion paths can achieve special results in animations.
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Designing and prototyping Flex applications using Fireworks

Learn how the combination of bitmap editing and vector manipulation tools, along with Flex integration features, make Fireworks an ideal tool for designing Flex applications.
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Motion migration guide for Flash CS4 Professional

Migrate your motion tweening skills from previous versions of Flash to the new motion model in Flash CS4 Professional.
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Deploy your first Flex application on Facebook

Learn to deploy on Facebook as an iFrame application.
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Building a kiosk using Flex

Create a simple touchscreen Flex application.
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Building a List component in Flash Lite

Learn how to create a custom scrolling list to display data within a mobile application.
Publication date: 2009-05-05 more

Who's @ Google I/O - spotlight on AJAX and Google Data APIs

There are over 60 Google APIs across a wide range of products and technologies. The AJAX APIs include Google Search, Language, Maps, FriendConnect, and Visualization APIs. The team recently launched v2 of the AJAX APIs Playground , an app designed to show interactive code samples for some of our coolest Javascript APIs. The Google Data APIs provide a simple standard protocol for reading and writing data on the web and are used by many products including YouTube , Calendar , Picasa Web Al
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eXPert PDF reader

Bloated applications have become a thorough annoyance. Something as simple as a PDF reader , namely Adobe Acrobat Reader , is not only a hefty download but is also heavy on system requirements. Well, here comes a nice free application that happily dispenses the fattening problem: eXPert PDF Reader ! It
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Download Free Paragon Drive Backup 9 Personal with Genuine Serial Product Key

Paragon Drive Backup Personal is a very useful utility to recover/restore your PC or laptop with handy bootable, portable rescue USB flash drive. It helps to protect your entire PC, undo software malfunctions or crashes, and safeguard your data . This feature-rich software easily restores your system whenever disaster strikes, and optimizes storage utilization to keep your system running at top speed. This powerful application also provides you with a new approach to file backup and enh
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10 Visualizations for Number of Days to Pay Your Taxes

A couple weeks ago, FlowingData ran another Visualize This challenge. I posted a dataset on the number of days it takes the average person in each state to pay his or her taxes and asked you to visualize it. The number of days vary, because tax burden varies state-by-state. The day all taxes have been paid is dubbed Tax Freedom Day . Alaska has the earliest Tax Freedom Day while Connecticut has it last. Here are the interesting results you all came up with. Thanks to those who participated
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ColdFusion, Flex, And Connect Win Great Indian Developer Awards

Last year ColdFusion won an award at the Great Indian Developer Summit . This year ColdFusion has won again for Best Web Development Platform (against ASP.NET and more). Other Adobe winners were Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro in the Best Collaboration Solution category (nominated along with WebEx, and more), and Flex for Best Framework.
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Latest Tech Notes

Here
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Pimp Your PHP App with Flex

If you
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Flex Bug Quash - Indy Style

Want to help improve the quality of Flex for yourself and others? Have a bug that you
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Monday

Economic Downturn Challenges Enterprise Software Executives To Uphold The Sanctity Of The Vendor - Customer Relationships Conventional wisdom would assume that in a challenging economy, strong relationships would be a key success factor to retaining business and mitigating loss of revenue.  Unfortunately, this does not appear to be the case for many companies, including vendors in enterprise software.  Blame it on the economy, fear of depending on their people, or plain greed, but a good num
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iPlotz Launches Cool Wireframe App

I had been looking for a way to do some wireframing for blog layout ideas, web pages, or these days iPhone app ideas. In the past my tool of choice had been Powerpoint. Very odd, I know, but it gives me the rough drawing tools and a big white piece of paper. Visio just had too much stuff to setup in order to do basic drawing, so that was not really a choice. If I still had a copy of MacDraw on my computer, I probably would use that. I really just wanted something basic. What I found in iPlot
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Develop Adobe Flex and AIR Apps with RestfulX Framework

RestfulX is a framework that brings a clean, REST-inspired approach to Adobe Flex and AIR development and makes integration with RESTful Web Services as simple as possible. If you want to use Ruby on Rails, Merb, Sinatra, CouchDB or Google App Engine and you want a UI that puts the word Rich into Rich Internet Applications give RestfulX a spin. RestfulX only takes 5 minutes to get started. Instead of WSDL, SOAP or other complex specifications you
Publication date: 2009-05-02 more

Animated Flash Charts, Graphs and Maps From Infosoft

FusionCharts is a Flex-based component suite helpful to create dynamic Flash charts, Flash maps, interactive gauges and real-time instrumentation monitors. The suite consists of four products: FusionCharts, FusionWidgets, FusionMaps and PowerCharts. Apart from the suite, also available are a free FusionCharts Google gadget for blogs and websites and a FusionCharts Free package which includes Area, Line, Pie, Doughnut (Donut), Column and Bar charts to plot single series and multi series data,
Publication date: 2009-05-02 more

SitePoint Web Tech Blog: Pimp Your PHP App with Flex!

The SitePoint Web Tech blog is holding a contest to win copies of Adobe's Flex Builder software. All you have to do to enter is take a quiz! read more
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blogs.sun.com

blogs.sun.com
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Open Source Designer Effects for Adobe Flex - Efflex

Efflex is a set of Open Source Designer Effects for Adobe Flex . All these effects are very beautifully handled and coded. We are much familiar with these effects in other languages / programs but how about getting the source code for such handy effects with Adobe Flex. These effects are created by Stephen Downs who has a background in building applications for Flash Platform. As these are Open source effects You can download the code and you can use it in your personal and com
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Top five misperceptions about ActionScript 3

Read about the misheld beliefs some people have about ActionScript 3.
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Externalizing service configuration for BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services ES

Configure your services at runtime to simplify deployment.
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Creating desktop applications for the cloud with Adobe Flex, AIR, and Amazon S3

Employ the Amazon Simple Storage Service in place of a multi-tiered server infrastructure.
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Using Apache Ant with FlexBuilder 3 on Mac OSX - Some workarounds

I recently needed to compile a SWC from Flex Builder 3 on my Mac. I hadn
Publication date: 2009-04-28 more

Adobe Flex Help Needed.

I have created a flex project that uses SWFLoader that plays a swf movie. I need to be able to Stop/Pause and Play this movie with buttons. The
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

How to win a Flex Builder license

Last Saturday, while I was in Cluj presenting at the PHP GeekMeet event, I came up with this idea: if you manage to convince a pub owner to hang the Flash/Flex API posters on the wall, then you get a free Flex Builder license. The contest for Cluj has started, as I already gave away 3 posters. I am waiting to find the winner. I
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Upcoming events & speaking engagements

My calendar for the next coming weeks is pretty full. I thought it was a good idea to combine some of the events I
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

Thanks for Voting. Adobe Rocks GIDS!

Adobe swept the
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The First Adobe Flex Based Arabic/English Social Network fameego.com Wins The Gold Award at the Pan Arab Web Awards.

Topping all other the category of Social Network Category, fameego.com was given the Gold Award at the fifth annual Pan Arab Web Awards . The regional award ceremony was recently held at the Burj Arab
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Great Indian Developer Summit - 2009

After the GIDS 2008 last year, me and one of my colleague at Xebia expressed our interest in attending Developer Summit this year.  Great Indian Developer Summit(GIDS) took place from 23-25 April 2009 at Bangalore , India. Our journey started with witnessing a huge chaos at the airport. Their systems had gone down so everything was haywire. We joked of representing Xebia here as well to present them a better software solution  @Bangalore , India The first day saw a huge number of peopl
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Rounding Up An Activity-filled Week

If you feel guilty of surfing the Internet for things not directly related to your work while in office brush it away and plan to strike a balance. Adobe XD has links which support that you are doing the right thing . Intuity and Xtify together are conducting a contest for a location-based RIA . Huge prizes but only open to residents of the USA and Canada. The Dr. Dobb
Publication date: 2009-04-27 more

ActionScript 3 migration cookbook

Get a high-level introduction to ActionScript 3 and a reference for accomplishing frequent tasks when creating content in Flash Professional.
Publication date: 2009-04-26 more

Errores En Los Simpson, problemas de continuidad

Como siempre hacemos incapie en que se trata de una serie de dibujos animados, y se les hace dificil a los gionistas recordar cada uno de los detalles.  - En la quinta temporada, Apu es llamado a ser jurado para el juicio de Freddy Diamante, sobrino del Alcalde Diamante . Lo curioso es que para ser jurado se necesita ser ciudadano de Estados Unidos pero él no lo era en aquel entonces. Apu no se convierte en ciudadano Estadounidense hasta la séptima temporada. - En una de las últimas
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

Flash at the Lake - Zurich, Switzerland

April 21st, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Flash at the Lake is a two day conference organized by the SFUG (Switzerland Flash User Group) taking place at the Rote Fabrik in Zurich, right by the lake side. Confirmed speakers include: Aral Balkan, Mario Klingemann, James Ward and many more. I
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Download Adobe ColdFusion 8 for FREE!

Adobe ColdFusion 8 software solves the day-to-day challenges of Internet application development, allowing you to be extremely productive as you create and deliver engaging online applications. And because it fits into any IT environment, you can use ColdFusion 8 for everything from small departmental applications to highly scalable, reliable implementations of your most important business applications. Adobe ColdFusion software makes Internet application development and deployment faster and
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Flash Platform for Business - new resources

Even though Flash has evolved considerably since the days of just creating animations and interactive content, I often hear that developers have to
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional for Unemployed Developers

In the previous months some of Adobe evangelists handed out licensees of Flex Builder for people without job in order to help them get a job by reconverting them. Ben Forta said on his blog: We did not launch a full program for this, just a grassroots initiative thought up and delivered by your friendly Adobe Platform Evangelists. We were inundated with requests, and gave away hundreds of copies in the first few days. And it worked, fellow evangelist Duane Nickull gave a copy to a developer
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Ruby on Rails Power!: The Comprehensive Guide

Ruby on Rails Power!: The Comprehensive Guide Product Description Ruby on Rails is a feature-rich, easy to learn, and powerful web application framework that makes creating sophisticated, full featured web applications a snap. With the intuitive, straightforward nature of Ruby and the development platform provided by Rails, anyone can put together full-fledged web applications quickly, even if they
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition Review - What works. What doesn

By James Ward | Published: April 23, 2009 Since the days when I installed Slackware Linux via a stack of 3.5
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Norton Giving Beta Version Of Norton Online Family

From the last Monday, Symantec giving free security program for the parents to track how their child using internet and the beta version Norton Online Family it
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Ess

Here are the results of our search for Ess . US Auctions Australian Auctions Austrian Auctions Belgian Auctions Canadian Auctions French Auctions German Auctions Hong Kong Auctions Indian Auctions Irish Auctions Italian Auctions Dutch Auctions Polish Auctions Singapore Auctions Spanish Auctions Swiss Auctions UK Auctions HAYDN HAYDN CLEMENTI EssaY 2005 Classical NR NEW CD US $10.94 6h 4m
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The Flex Show : Fifteen Minutes With Flex Screencast

If you
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Full Version Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional Free Download and Learn

Adobe is currently offering Flex Builder 3 professional software free for all software developers who are affected by the current economic condition and are currently unemployed. There is no verification required, you
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Using XML Schemas in Eclipse / FlexBuilder

UPDATE: After reading the entry by Misprintt on the SchemaManager and XMLDecoder more thoroughly, I felt the need to tell you all to go check it out! This is a very powerful undocumented feature of Flex (why undocumented?) that could potentially save loads of time on a larger project. Along with the rest of this article, you could automate the parsing of your XML files into bindable model classes with ease. XML-Schema (.XSD extension) are documents used to describe the format of XML files
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Sun Micro Now Oracle?

April 20, 2009 In what has to be a surprise, Oracle has made a tender offer for Sun at $9.5/share for a $7.4Bn acquisition cost. This will be most interesting to watch
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Video - Connecting Flex to a SOAP Webservice

By James Ward | Published: April 20, 2009 Adobe TV has published a video I did recently about connecting Flex to a SOAP Webservice. Check it out and let me know what you think.This entry was posted in Flex, SOAP. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
Publication date: 2009-04-21 more

Draw Pictures And Edit SVG Image File For Free With e2vector

You have heard about the image formats jpeg, png, and gif. But what about svg? SVG( Scalable Vector Graphics ), according to Wikipedia , is a family of specifications of XML-based file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and dynamic (interactive or animated). Since the image and it
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Touch Screen Kiosk in Adobe Air

We recently launched a new Touch Screen Kiosk deployed in both Adobe Air and Flex. Touch Screen Kiosks pose some interesting usability challenges, some of which overlap with those for the iPhone. Take a look at a video demo or read the longer case study on the Pathfinder site . Touch Screen Kiosk Demo Pathfinder is a software development firm. Hire us to build complex software that's easy to use.
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50 Beta Invites To JayCut

JayCut, the Swedish startup offering online video editing technology, can add another achievement on it
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Free software & cheaper calls for the unemployed

Giving is the new taking, as our sister site likes to say . And while we've covered several examples of the growing importance of generosity as a societal and business mindset, we hadn't yet come across anything from the tech sector. But now we've found not just one but two such examples, courtesy of Adobe and Telefónica. Adobe launched a program earlier this month whereby it is giving its Flex Builder 3 Professional software free of charge to developers who have been hit by current econom
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For you to be A Web Designer

I have been into drawing and designing from when I was a kid. Actually after I graduate from university and became an architect, I still like to be a graphic designer. Actually I more like choosing career as a graphic designer more than architect although I like to study architecture. In today worlds, graphic design can not be separated from computer graphic. Every graphic designer now has to be able to use graphic software like photoshop, coreldraw or adobe illustrator. Even if you want to make
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Google is Not In Danger Thanks to The Pirate Bay Guilty Verdict

Late last week the verdict was announced in the most closely watched P2P related legal skirmish to date, the Swedish trial of the four administrators of The Pirate Bay. All of the defendants were found guilty of
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Using pages, states and layers in Fireworks CS4

Learn best practices to structure your Fireworks document, organize objects, and reuse common elements.
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Using LiveCycle Content Services ES to seamlessly store and manage documents protected with LiveCycle Rights Management ES and LiveCycle Content Services ES

Make interaction seamless through the use of spaces and smart policies.
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Flex 3 in Action book excerpt: Introduction to pop-ups

Learn how to create, position, communicate with, and close pop-up windows.
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H.264 for the rest of us

Read this video compression guide to understand F4V-specific settings in Adobe Media Encoder and Flash Media Encoding Server, and learn about estimating acceptable video bit rates.
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Test Driven Development with ColdFusion

Use MXUnit to build unit tests for ColdFusion.
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Adobe Cracks n Keygens All in one AIO Collection

Here's the list of Cracks and keygens: ---> Adobe CS3 Master Collection ---> Adobe All CS2 Premium Keygen ---> Adobe Acrobat 3D 7.07 ---> Adobe Acrobat 3D 8 ---> Adobe Acrobat 8.1.0 Professional ---> Adobe After Effects 7.0 ---> Adobe After Effects CS3 ---> Adobe Audition 2.0 ---> Adobe Captivate 2.0 ---> Adobe Captivate 3 ---> Adobe ColdFusion 8 ---> Adobe Contribute CS3 ---> Adobe Design Premium CS3 ---> Adobe DreamWeaver CS3 ---> Adobe Encore DVD
Publication date: 2009-04-20 more

SitePoint Podcast #13: Digging into the DiggBar

Episode 13 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O
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ArcGIS API For Microsoft Silverlight And ArcGIS API For Flex Replace Header Images On My Blog

Over the last few days I have been looking for something to spark my blog. I thought about a new theme and was browsing around some of the free CSS templates. Problem is that it
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Building Flex and Cupping Noodles

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State of the Flash & Flex Developer Market for 2009

This is a post I do yearly, every April.  I originally started it because at the time, Flex was new, and many people, both Flash Developers, and traditional software developers from other languages, wanted to more information on the job market for Flex.  My hope was they
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Web Development for the Future

Web development is a broad term for any activities related to developing a web site for the World Wide Web or an intranet. This can include e-commerce business development, web design, web content development, client-side/server-side coding, and web server configuration. However, among web professionals,
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Ken Azuma on "Is Silverlight 3 ready for business"

Introduction Silverlight 3 is on its way with tons of new goodies. But each technology has to be well accepted from the business users in order to be successful. But what can help the business to take such a decision? We, at SilverlightShow.net , think that sharing experience is a good start. This article is a part of our
Publication date: 2009-04-18 more

Flex and Flex Builder 3

Flex is Adobe's latest platform for building RIA (Rich Internet Application) content. What is it, how does it work, is it any good, and how much does it cost? We sort through the buzzwords here.
Publication date: 2009-04-18 more

MIX09: Ten Ways to Ensure RIA Failure

Explore the lessons learned and pitfalls of inefficient workflows, worst practices, and poor communication that will ensure the demise of any software project. Anthony Franco gives tips and examples on how to avoid the broken philosophies and misguided ideas that are certain to run a project into the ground. Anthony Franco Anthony Franco is the president of EffectiveUI, the leading provider of rich Internet, desktop and mobile applications for Fortune 1000 companies. He has an extensive ba
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The Daily GameDev.Net

I'm staring at quite the empty bin of news stories in my Reader favorites, fortunately not too many of them were already taken by previous Dailys - yes, I actually went back and read them all again just to be safe this time. Anyways, let's get on with it before tomorrow comes and that totally awesome furball returns and steals all the attention. Adobe gives Flex Builder for free. If you're looking to get into Flex, then Adobe has the deal for you - with the usual small print of personal use, no
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Real World Adobe Illustrator CS4 - Tutorial eBook

Real World Adobe Illustrator CS4 is the definitive reference to Adobe
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Funny Goof up Using Adobe AIR

Today I came across a post called AIR Deleted My Desktop posted by John C. Bland II on his blog. John added a new feature to his AIR app to save a file to a network share and was testing it against his desktop directory. AIR cleaned the directory permanently. The copyTo function when copying a file A in directory D1 to a directory D2 which already has another file with the name A, first deletes D2/A and then copies D1/A to D2. When the from and to paths are the same, instead of returning an
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Release Candidate Ubuntu 9.04 Available For Download

The upcoming version Ubuntu Linux distribution which is due out on April 33rd. You shouldn
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You Love Adobe Products ? You Would Love TheTechLabs !

The first troubleshooting reference you take if you
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Dedicated Video Search Engine

Clipta which is dedicated video search engines which fetching possible results from different possible video sharing sites. When any user searching on it, it
Publication date: 2009-04-16 more

Fluffy Links - Tuesday April 14th 2009

Seán did an interview with a few young chaps who use Twitter . Nerdcore. Using Mathematica to name Web 2.0 companies. My post on why Bad Facebook Ads are bad for all of us. Ian interviews Tony about his time on Dragon
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Is Your Career with Lotus Notes Safe? (Part 2) (from Mr. Greyhawk)

From Intranet Journal: Is Your Career with Lotus Notes Safe? (Part 2) As always, John Roling nails the truth in his latest article: In the Notes and Domino world I've seen a lot of specialization over the years. Many people are just Notes developers, or just Domino administrators. These people tend to be experts in that one aspect of Notes while eschewing most other talents. Nowadays, that is a huge liability as many companies are looking to get more out of their employees
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Web Browser war and Javascript Performance !!

A ny discussion on web browsers inevitably centers around how fast web pages load . We keep saying that a particular website loads faster in a particular browser. Let's try to get why this happens. While there are a number of factors that determine the page loading time of a web page, one major factor is Javascript performance . Blogspot bloggers would have a good idea where this comes from. How often have we discarded a javascript coded widget just because it made it almost impossible fo
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A Great Flash Based Online Game

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Flex (flash) Image Viewer

Hi, iam looking for something that basically look and work like: http://www.etsy.com/showcase.php?ref=fp_banner_showcase_main Please check the link above first, and then here are the requirements/differences: - It should load the images from an XML-File. - it should NOT have the buttons / dropdown up left to change to another category / xml-File - startanimation should be different or better is not needed such good. it should just show that something happens
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Slideshare-like Image-viewer

Iam looking for an Adobe Flex (Flash) Application like the default on slideshare.com but with a few changes For more Informations and Details please check: http://devswi.blogspot.com/2009/04/slideshare-test.html If you have questions then ask first. It should be written in Adobe Flex and i want the source that i can do my own changes. Thanks. Please ad an approximate date when you can finish the project Tags: Flash , image , image viewer , image viewer flash , like image , l
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Favorite Flex Builder shortcuts

Because my brain is filled with movie quotes from Star Wars, Aliens, Ghost Busters, etc I find it difficult to remember the things that are actually useful, like the syntax for how to embed and use a sound file in a Flex project. So here are a few of my most commonly revisited sites. I do remember my shortcuts because I use them every day - like my movie quotes. :-) I thought it might be nice to share. Favorite Flex Builder Shortcuts Ctrl + k = move to the next occurrence of the sel
Publication date: 2009-04-13 more

Double Shot #429

Some mornings it is very hard to face a Monday. On2 Flix Cloud - SAAS web-based media transcoding. Looks useful. Adobe
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Javascript + HTML5: The Future of Education Software

Several months ago, I wrote how to make activity designers happy by making it easier to create simple learning activities using popular software development tools, particularly for the Sugar learning environment. Back then, I concluded that Adobe's Flash player and Flex libraries were the proper tools for this purpose. I was wrong. Adobe's flash and flex are great tools but they will never form the basis of a thriving ecosystem of open-source educational software. This is because Adobe's flash f
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Why watch The Masters on your television?

The golf fans among us have already tuned into The Masters -- but not on our televisions. This year's online live Masters console at Masters.com is a high-resolution full-broadcast, with components that allow you to watch multiple holes simultaneously, pull up the leaderboard, track your favorite players (in real-time or via alerts), or watch bonus & recap footage. Granted, much of this was available on the Masters web site in previous years, but never fully integrated into one experience.
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Adobe Flex Builder and Coldfusion for Free

Adobe software is giving away free copies of Adobe flex builder 3 pro  and Cold Fusion 8 free for students. This is a great opportunity for students, faculties and employees of educational institutes can grab their free copy by sending your identity to Adobe. Students can send their current academic year identity to adobe. If your are faculty just send your photo and identity of working to Adobe To grab your free copy of Adobe flex builder and coldfusion for free check it out here
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Adobe Flex 3 - License Free for Unemployed Web Developers

Adobe providing free Adobe Flex without any fees
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Free Download Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional and Adobe Cold Fusion 8

Now you can download   Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional and Adobe Cold Fusion 8 for Free. The Adobe Team is offering free license keys of the above mentioned software for students and developers. Generally this software will cost you a lot in order to get the activation code of these software. This is an initiative taken up by Adobe team to help the Unemployed and college students, faculty and staff of eligible education institutions.. This Adobe Products giveaway requires you to v
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Unemployed to get Adobe Flex Builder 3 web application (worth $699 or

Adobe are offering a licence for Flex Builder 3
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Images Inserting Features In Gmail Labs

Another one expected updates finally comes out in Google
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Adobe Flex Builder free for Unemployed Developers

Adobe is offering Flex Builder for free for Unemployed Developers. LINK
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Should I use Flex to make a front-end for a job board?

Are there any problems with building the front-end for a job board in Adobe Flex? The back-end for the site will be in Python (Django). And my programmer suggests to save time and money, we create the front-end interface with Adobe Flex. I know it used to be a bad idea to make an entire site in Flash... if I made the front-end in Flex, would I be setting myself up for problems? If so, what alternatives should I consider?
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Chicago Public Schools Needs Our Help

Please give this post a read.  It is very important that we (i.e. the Chicago tech community) rally to help Chicago Public Schools with their tech efforts. CPS needs some help with donations of goods, services and/or cash to get their TECHxpo 2009 project ready to rock. I know there are some individuals and companies out there who, even in these tough times, can still help with this effort.  Let
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Should Silverlight 3's Out of Browser be Full-Trust?

When the Silverlight 3 "Out of the Browser" support (dubbed OOB by someone other than me) I was approached by more than a few attendees wondering whether I thought that OOB meant the death of WPF . While I still contend that this is not the case, I have been forced into thinking about the OOB support in a deeper way earlier. On Twitter, no other than Jon Galloway , Caleb Jenkins , Tim Heuer , Jusin Angel , John Papa  and Brian Henderson (et al.) have had this on-going discussion abou
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Adobe gives Flex Builder for free

Adobe has launched an offer which gives unemployed web developers the chance to snag a copy of the Flex Builder 3 Professional package completely free.
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From A 14-Year-Old: What Will Google Do In The Next 10 Years?

The search engine giant - Google influences the whole world a lot in recent several years, and more and more people are paying attention oo it. Today, I will make some brave forecasts to guess what will Google do in 10 years, they all are based on trends, my experiences and observations. Year 2010 Factor: Rich Internet Applications Actions: Launch beta version of GDrive Reasons: Of course, RIAs are becoming more and more popular, even Apple has launched MobileMe based on HTML5, and Mic
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Xtnd.us launches second-half of 2006

Adobe Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Flex, oh my! Keep this channel probin' because extension lovers and lookers are going to get a great resource for all levels of web designers and developers.
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Adobe Stimulus Plan: Free Flex Builder

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How-to - Problema con Adobe Flex Upload +[PHP] Sessione + Firefox !

In un
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Adobe Fireworks CS3 Portable Edition [59MB|No Installation]

Accelerate web design and development with Adobe Fireworks CS3 software, the ideal tool for creating and optimizing images for the web and rapidly prototyping websites and web applications. Fireworks CS3 offers the flexibility to edit both vector and bitmap images, a common library of prebuilt assets, and timesaving integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, and Adobe Flash Rapidly Prototype and Design for the Web New Adobe Fireworks CS3 dramatically
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Unemployed Developer?? Get a Free Adobe Flex 3 License!

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Free! Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro for unemployed developers

Adobe Flex Builder 3 software is currently available for free for software developers who are affected by the current economic condition and are currently unemployed. Flex Builder Pro 3 is normally $699 to purchase, so this is a pretty generous offer. To receive the product under this program, you must attest to the fact that you are currently unemployed and that the software will be used only for your personal use not for any production or commercial purposes. More info :  Adobe
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Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro * free * for unemployed and education

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Fast Intro to Flash

There is plenty of documentation, tutorials and explanation of Flash on the internet, blogs and books. However, it
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Download Adobe Flex builder & ColdFusion free

Adobe software are amazing and come with heavy loaded price tag. Adobe is now doing what Microsoft started long back ( remember Dreamspark? ). Now you can download and use selected Adobe produts for free. This offer is valid for students, faculty and employees of educational institutes. Related - Download or Order free Microsoft inspired posters Currently, Flex Builder 3 Professional and ColdFusion 8 are available for free download and use. You need to show valid proof of eligibility
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Download Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro Adobe ColdFusion 8 free

Adobe Flex  Builder 3 is a development environment for rich flex web applications and Adobe AIR cross platform desktop applications .At the same time , Adobe ColdFusion 8 (.cfm) is server side coding language like ASP.NET and PHP .Adobe Flex  Builder 3 Pro and Adobe ColdFusion 8 costs 250 $ and 1,299 respectively . But If you are a student developer /teacher , now you can download Adobe Flex  Builder 3 Pro  and Adobe ColdFusion 8  free with out any charges . Adobe Flex is an open
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Interview with Scott Barnes about Silverlight 3

April 8th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Those of you that follow me on Twitter will no doubt have been witness to some interesting (and sometimes tedious) discussions between myself, other Flash Platform enthusiasts and Scott Barnes of Microsoft. Scott was an ardent supporter of Flex before his move to Microsoft which makes his perspective all the more interesting.Thought it was worth asking him to answer a few questions about the latest Silverlight developments. As you might imagine I don
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Free Autodesk software licenses for the unemployed

Yet another software publisher is taking pity on the unemployed. Just a few days ago Adobe began offering free licenses of Flex Builder 3 to those unfortunate developers who lost their jobs during the recession. Now another software giant Autodesk has announced a similar program for these unlucky people. It
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Flashpaper Tech

Dear Developers: I need an adobe flex / php component / script which displays documents in browseable swf files. These swf files should be similar to the swfs files produced by the following service: http://www.scribd.com/ipaper or http://www.docstoc.com. I need it to generate document views reports from the conversion of uploaded files. PHP can be used to do it, but [...]
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RSLs: The Diet Pills for Flex-based Apps

Less than a week after using the first release of Tour de Flex I made some charges against beloved Adobe AIR primarily regarding the installer size and the memory footprint. Last week, I made another charge this time regarding the hyperactivity of a couple of DLLs . Thankfully, the latter post got a visit from the Adobe AIR PM Rob Christensen who subsequently made very useful clarifications . The following part especially caught my attention: In general, AIR files tend to consist of fil
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Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional Software FREE for Unemployed Developers

Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional Software FREE for Unemployed Developers : Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. Program eligibility: To receive the product under this program, you must attest to the fact that you are currently unemployed and that the software will be used only for your personal use not for any production or commerci
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Review: Asus Eee PC 1000HE Netbook

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Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro Free To Unemployed Developers

Adobe has announced that if you are an unemployed developer, you can download Flex Builder 3 Professional for free. Check out the details here - note that this is not for commercial purposes, just for learning. You must also agree to the following terms: 1) I am not currently employed or being paid to develop software applications or web pages 2) Adobe Flex Builder 3 Software I receive under this program is for my personal use to learn about Adobe Flex and improve my skills 3) My license
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PHP and Adobe Air: Building a Time-tracking and Billing Application - Part II

Welcome back. In part 1 of this series, you created some PHP remote services and the Clocked! widget application. Part 2 covers PHP administration and completion of the timer widget. Let's jump right into Adobe Flex Builder and add more widget features.
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Adobe offers free Flex 3 license to unemployed developers

Filed under: Developer , Adobe Say what you will about Adobe's licensing fees and whatnot, but at least they're willing to do something to provide a little assistance to developers that have been hit hard by the current economic situation. If you can provide proof that you are currently unemployed, Adobe will provide you a personal use license for Flex Builder at no charge . Flex Builder Pro 3 is normally $699 to purchase, so this is a pretty generous offer. Yes, Adobe have their ow
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Using Flash CS4 and Adobe AIR to build custom browsers for e-learning and social networking

Explore the Flash CS4 and AIR components workflow and learn to build and customize a sample AIR application.
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Using the Salesbuilder Adobe AIR sample application

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Developer spotlight: Justin Putney

Meet Justin Putney, picked for his use of Flash and ActionScript to create extensions and release them for free to the Flash community.
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Foundation Form Creation excerpt: Performing advanced form scripting

Add calculations and scripts to your form by applying either JavaScript or FormCalc to your objects.
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Rapid interactive prototyping with HTML, CSS and JavaScript using Fireworks and Dreamweaver CS4

Learn how to work with web scripting languages and CS4 tools to create working models that replicate product functionality.
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Sharing data with Adobe Flash Collaboration Service beta

Learn how to send custom messages back and forth between Flex applications.
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Adobe's Free Gift To Unemployed Developers

Are you an unemployed developer? Did you get the pink slip because your company found it costly to retain you after the economic down turn? Then cheer up because Adobe has decided to provide some succor by releasing it's flagship product Adobe Flex Builder Professional for free. Read on for details ...
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Adobe Fireworks CS4 with keygen

Rapidly prototye; websites and application interfce;s with d;obe
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Silverlight 3 Beta Really Does Play Adobe Video Content

Things just got vastly more interesting on the RIA front, especially for HD Video and Digital Media in general. Why? [/caption] Adobe has no reason to ignore Silverlight now
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Free Flex Builder 3 For Unemployed Developers

Over the past couple of months, the Platform Evangelism team have been handing out free copies of Flex Builder 3 to developers who are out of work, the idea being that they could use their new free time to learn a new skill. We did not launch a full program for this, just a grassroots initiative thought up and delivered by your friendly Adobe Platform Evangelists. We were inundated with requests, and gave away hundreds of copies in the first few days. And it worked, fellow evangelist Duane Nick
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Are you a developer? Recently unemployed? Get Flex Builder 3 for free

A few weeks ago, most of us on the Platform Evangelism team reached out to the developer community, offering free Adobe Flex Builder 3 licenses to unemployed developers so they can learn a new skill and raise their profile. Needless to say that we were swamped with email requests. Today, this is now a more formal offering, with information and access to the program available at https://freeriatools.adobe.com/learnflex/ To get you up and running with Flex in no time, Safari Books Online i
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Adobe looking for developers to join early access program for Flex Builder

Guest post from my friends at Adobe: Adobe is currently building the next generation of Flex Builder, the Eclipse based IDE for creating cross-platform rich Internet applications.  In this upcoming version, a significant new set of features are being introduced to accelerate creation of data-centric applications with PHP on the server-side leveraging Zend Framework and Zend AMF.  Prior to the public Beta later in the year, Adobe would like to invite a select group of PHP developers into a pri
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Adeptiv UI Iconset

During my month-long stint of full-time freelance work, I picked up a job for andCulture , a company I knew about through a friend I met on twitter , Larry Marburger . andCulture needed a smooth and silky set of 36 icons for an Adobe Flex web application that they had been working on. I was happy to provide them with this icon set and it was a great learning experience, as it was my very first icon set to design for Komodo Media. The result, I feel was a very nice looking set and fit we
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Get Flex Builder for zero clams

There are now two different programs that can allow you to get Flex Builder for free. There has a been a program around for a while now that allows students, faculty, or anyone with a student ID to get a serial number for free. While at the Web 2.0 Expo this week I was surprised that nobody seemed to have heard of it. Just go to freeriatools.adobe.com and submit a scanned copy of your ID. Go take a cooking class or something and get Flex for free. Girls love guys who can cook. The other progr
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Unemployed? Get Flex Builder for free

If you recently got unemployed, I am really sorry. Unfortunately I can
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Some things for IBM To Think About Over The Weekend

It seems likely that IBM will make its formal offer to Sun shareholders in the coming week.   Clearly, there
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Adobe Flex Builder 3 is now free for unemployed developers!

Now this is call software stimulus package:Adobe
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Designer - ADOBE FLEX by calendar123

Looking for a talented design able to recreate our GUI in Adobe Flex (No programming needed). Please supply examples of Graphic Design work and Adobe Flex experience. The design is 95% complete, you just
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Understanding the architecture of applications built on the Facebook and Flash Platforms

Get an overview of the different types of applications you can build and how the applications communicate with your server and the Facebook server.
Publication date: 2009-04-03 more

Build your first Facebook application

Daniel Dura shows you how to build Flash applications on the Facebook Platform.
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Building Sideline: Lessons in YUI + Adobe AIR

About the Author: Chad Auld is a Front-end Engineer working with the Yahoo! Buzz Marketing team. A long-time open-source contributor, he recently helped start the MiaCMS project , a next-generation fork of Mambo built using YUI. In this article, he walks us through the process of developing a desktop application with YUI on the Adobe Air platform. Ever wonder what people are saying right now about your company, brand, service, product, etc? Sideline , inspired by a recent inter
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Heading off to Michigan for some ColdFusion and Flash User Group Meetings

Thanks to Nick and a bunch of folks from the Michigan Adobe community I
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Trying to find the right medium

I have been having a hard time getting things written down on this blog lately. Its not that I don
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Facebook on Flash

Facebook and Adobe are today announcing a partnership and the release of fresh Flash client libraries to make it easier for developers to plug into the Facebook Platform inside their social applications built with Flash. This is a great new for both Facebook and Adobe. Facebook and alike are becoming the next(or current) web computing platform. The old fashion of mashing up with bunch of APIs is too web 2.0 (meaning outdated.) To Adobe, climbing on this platform, in a way, is more important th
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Flex in Boston: early bird discount expires on Apr 6

The early bird discount for the two-day Flex workshop in Boston expires on Monday, April 6. Details at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/295389518 .  Don
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Adobe Open Source Done Right

It was an exciting weekend in Seattle. Adobe hosted the first ever public Bug Quash event. Led by Nate and Marty the community finally had an opportunity to show Adobe we are willing to give back and help. I don
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Adobe and Facebook Drive Next Generation of Social Applications

Source news: EONSAN JOSE, Calif.
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Flex and Actionscript APIs, Components & Libraries

Alternativa3D
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NVidia Counter Sues Intel!

It
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Adobe Fireworks CS3 PORTABLE

Accelerate web design and development with Adobe Fireworks CS3 software, the ideal tool for creating and optimizing images for the web and rapidly prototyping websites and web applications. Fireworks CS3 offers the flexibility to edit both vector and bitmap images, a common library of prebuilt assets, and timesaving integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, and Adobe Flash Rapidly Prototype and Design for the Web New Adobe Fireworks CS3 dramatically ac
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17 Adobe AIR Apps That Can Save Your Time

Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax. It
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Free Flash SWF Protection Encryption Program - Flash Protection Gold

Flash Protection Gold is one of the best program to protect SWF Flash files with an effective encryption technique for adobe flash ad flex. It provides three layers of extensive encryption techniques to stop flash/SWF decompilers and stop the illegal copying and redistribution of Flash (SWF), graphics including BITMAPS, Movieclips, Sounds, Videos, Text, Font and Action Script. It lets you preview the flash file in the small Flash Player embedded in the program interface, you can select
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Flex/Air project in Flash Actionscript 3.0 by bplbsn

Hello to all bidders, I want to develop similar richTextEditor in Adobe Flex/Air(see the attached file).It is actually for Adobe Air but should work in Flex 3.0 too(You should strictly use ActionScript 3).You can use javascript also if you like but it should work in Adobe Air
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MySpace Embraces Microsoft Platforms For Mobile And Web Applications

Two Microsoft-related announcements coming from social networking giant MySpace today: the portal is adding support for Windows Mobile-run phones to its new mobile application, due this summer, and bringing the Silverlight runtime to its developer program thanks to a jointly developed Open Source kit . The upcoming application will be created by MySpace in conjunction with Microsoft developers, and optimize the user experience for owners of devices running the latest version of Windows Mo
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Gadget Deals of the Day [Dealzmodo]

Apple products on sale? A 67'' HDTV for $1,500? 40+ deals on a Monday? The Economy must really be telling us it's time to whip out our credit cards and embark on some crazy spending.Computers and Laptops:
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SAP Developers Get Some Flex Love

SAP Community Network has created a new page with details on how to get started building rich clients for SAP applications. The Web Dynpro for ABAP framework in SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EhP1 provides new libraries that make it easy to add rich data visualization to your applications using the Flex framework. SAP NetWeaver Product Manager Thomas Jung introduces the new page for eLearning, blogs, and other learning materials from both Adobe and SAP.
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Free Adobe

Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro is available for free to all education customers. This includes all students, faculty and staff of eligible education institutions. Proof of Eligibility To receive the product, you must upload a valid proof of eligibility to get the serial numbers to activate the product. Valid proofs of eligibility are: 1. a student ID showing current enrollment, 2. a Faculty ID showing current employment 3. an employee ID showing current employment, or 4. a letter on
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Adobe is... Joining Facebook in Making the Web More Social

One of the greatest assets of the Flash Platform is it's large community of partners and developers who expand the capabilities of the platform with new and exciting features. Today is no exception as we announce the release of the ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API. This library, a joint effort between Adobe and Facebook , allows developers to create rich social web applications using Flash, Flex and AIR. Until now, only a few unofficial libraries existed to support
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Press Release :: Adobe and Facebook Drive Next Generation of Social Applications

Developers Get New Open Source Technology to Create Integrated Adobe Flash and Facebook Platform Experiences Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 SAN JOSE, Calif.
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Debugging In Adobe Flex Using Arthropod

When you starting to use Flex, you might think how you debug your application(s). The first easiest and simple way is using default debugging feature in Flex Builder using trace() function. Well, there is another option for debugging in Flex. You can use other external Debugging tools or more like third parties application for debugging. Some of them is Arthropod . Arthropod is Adobe Air based debugging tools, so you need to install it before you can use it. So, if want use this debugg
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Enabling multiple user access to the ColdFusion Administrator and RDS

Understand the new multiple user feature and learn how to configure it.
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Merged Help

Adobe community expert Peter Grainge walks you through a simple process for creating merged help with RoboHelp 8.
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Building Rich Enterprise Applications with Adobe AIR

Adobe evangelist Christophe Coenraets recorded a very impressive demonstration (see below) of a sample application he built using Adobe AIR and Flex. The sample application, called Salesbuilder, demonstrates many powerful features including: telephone integration directly within the application using Ribbit (requires an account) simulated data synchronization between a local and remote database local database encryption rich data visualizations including a new calendar com
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Free Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro for college students, faculty and staff

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Ajax, Flex or Silverlight?

Although Comet is a term originally coined to describe a general technique, the focus has always been on pure JavaScript clients, and the term is often restricted to JavaScript. Some of the more mature Comet servers also provide APIs in other languages to access the same functionality that the browser JavaScript client can access. These APIs have mainly been for standalone applications using Java and .Net or for testing, but also for other browser technologies such as Flex, and more recently S
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Adobe S.F. Looking For ColdFusion Users For A Study

Adobe is looking for ColdFusion users with minimal Flex experience to take part in a research study. You'll need to be available for 2 hours on April 2nd in our San Francisco office, and you'll get paid $150 for the session. If interested, please fill in this survey .
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Flex, LiveCycle, and Single Sign-on

Who out there cares about integrating Flex, LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS), and Single sign-on (SSO)? This topic has been coming up a lot lately, so I
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Press Release :: Wacom Intuos4 Is Here

Next generation professional pen tablet delivers new proprietary pen technology and an elegant, ergonomic design loaded with new features Vancouver, WA
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Grails and Flex

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Get to know Flex and Zend_Amf - planetphp

The best applications for the rich Internet connect to the server to both read and write data. So, the easier it is to get data from the server and send data back to it, the quicker you can develop some awesome applications. Reading and posting to Extensible Markup Language (XML)
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Wacom

Wacom
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Learn Flex in Two Weekends

Even though IT market is pretty much dead, Flex developers remain in great demand.  But some people just can
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IN DEPTH: Cross Development PT3 - Flex Builder

Part 3 of our In Depth Look at developing software once, and having it run on Linux, Mac, and Windows. This episode looks at Adobe
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Silverlight Development for the Flex Developer

The jets and sharks, Hatfields and McCoys, Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants, Adobe and Microsoft. Now several years in the making, the Adobe - Microsoft rivalry is gearing up. Especially with the anticipated new release of Silverlight 3 and...
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Wacom Unveils Intuos 4: Lust Factor is High.

Wacom unveiled its brand new tablet line, the Intuos 4. Yes it is gorgeous, but Wacom didn
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OSSBarCamp this weekend

It
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Maps In A Flash

Since we
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Universal Mind Launches SpatialKey Private Beta

Adobe partner Universal Mind has announced the private beta of SpatialKey , a next generation information visualization, analysis and reporting system, designed to help organizations quickly assess location based information critical to their organizational goals, decision making processes and reporting requirements. An intro video has been posted, as has a complete feature list . The app is built using Flex and BlazeDS.
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Reducing the risk of malicious web attacks with HP SWFScan

Read about the free tool that scans SWF applications for security vulnerabilities.
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From table-based to tableless web design with CSS

Take the first steps towards CSS layouts and away from table-based layouts.
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Advancing mobile storytelling with Adobe's distributable player solution

Pioneering mobile storytelling developers from Untravel Media share their experience and the advantages of developing with the Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 distributable player solution.
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Exploring the new 3D features in Flash CS4 Professional

Get an overview of 3D: controlling rotations, animating with motion tweens, programming effects with ActionScript, and more.
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Working with masks in Fireworks CS4

Follow this presentation to learn how to work with masks.
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Using the Kuler panel with Fireworks CS4

Follow this presentation to learn how you can create a color theme for your website or web application.
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AdvancED Flex 3: Integrating via data and media services

Learn about the data services architecture, explore the steps, and see data services in action.
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Using Titanium to do things AIR can

Adobe AIR is a extraordinary platform and the core idea behind AIR i.e enabling web developers to build desktop apps has been revolutionary. But, there are things about AIR that are very limiting as a developer
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Adobe Fireworks new book!

Adobe Fireworks CS4 has a new book on the shelves. Friends of Ed from Apress publications have released a new book for beginners which sets a good understanding for designers and users exploring the capabilities of Fireworks. There are some really good case studies in the book to get you related to real world scenarios. Below mentioned is table of contents of the book. For more details about the book, please visit site http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=9781430216186 Summary o
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Silverlight and the Adobe Creative Suite

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MIX09 - Day 2

Keynote Bill Buxton introduced the keynote today, which is about the release of Internet Explorer 8. The intro video, once again, was awesome. I think every web meme in existence showed up in this thing. (Not as good as ScottGu wrestling a bear yesterday, but pretty funny nonetheless.) The first speaker is Dean Hachamovitch, GM of IE. He has some interesting points. We need a browser that "just works" for people who want to browse. Something that's secure and stable. We also need a browser
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Get Free 5GB Online Storage Space for all your Files at Acrobat

Acrobat is a software product developed by Adobe that can be used to create PDF documents. Now Adobe has extended Acrobat to an online portal where it provides 5 GB of free storage space to store all your files. To start using Acrobat.com services, you will first have to register with Adobe and get a user account. Once it is done, you can log into the Acrobat.com site and start uploading all your files. The User Interface is slick and a pleasure to use. Acrobat.com is still in B
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Adobe Flex 3.0 For Dummies

Adobe Flex 3.0 For Dummies Product Description Ready to flex your Web development muscles and start building rich Internet applications? With Flex 3.0, you can create great RIAs that perform like desktop applications using Adobe Flash Player, which is already installed on more than 95 percent of Internet-connected computers. And the fun and easy way
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tubatacan.com Update by phpist

We have a web site developed in Adobe Flex and we need to some updates on this web site. On the model
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How We Did It: Part 2 - The Ultimate Tourney Guide

This article is Part 2 of 5. Please read Part 1 if you have not done so already. Note: As of March 19th 2009 the Ultimate Tourney Challenge on ESPN.com is no longer open for entries. However, you can still download the " Ultimate Tourney Guide " and track the progress of the tournament. Part 2 As promised, this article discusses how we were able to use the Forms Data Format ( FDF ) to allow the
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Dynamically loading fonts with FontLoader and applying styles with CSS stylesheet in AS3

You are going to learn, how to easily load fonts apply a css stylesheet to a textfield. Until now, it has always been a big mess dynamicaly loading fonts. With the new fontloader from etcs.ru the process got easy as pie. All you need to do is to create a flash file, add dynamic textfields with the fonts you want and change the font weight and/or style to your needs. Then you just need to publish the swf and load it with the fontloader. What the fontloader does is reading the swf bytecode and e
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Flex Jobs

Videos on Flex Jobs more Flex Jobs videos ... Blog Posts on Flex Jobs Digital Content Associate | Flex.org - Rich Internet Application ... ( flex.org ) - March 17, 2009 The RIA Buzz. Stay current with the latest news for Adobe Flex, Adobe AIR and more from the world of richer apps. Sign up for the newsletter. For Students. Get Flex Builder FREE! Useful Links. Adobe F
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Advances in Flash SEO

First watch this Youtube video that Duane Nickull posted. It shows how little information swf2html extracts and also how Ichabod , the headless Adobe Flash Player used by Google can extract text from multiple states of an SWF. Bravo! The video is very grainy and you better download the higher resolution MP4 through KeepVid or elsewhere. Adobe also launched a Search Engine Optimization Technology Center on the Adobe Developer Connection last Friday. As of now there are just five ar
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How We Did It: Part 1 - The Ultimate Tourney Guide

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Whither (or should that be wither?) WPF?

Scott Guthrie's big keynote of MIX09 has just ended and we're left with the aftershocks of some pretty exciting news. The Silverlight 3 beta was released (along with the SDK , and other goodies ) and Scott took us on a whirlwind tour of what's new and what's coming up with it. The shocker to me was the GPU hardware accelerated support for Silverlight 3. In the browser! I'll let you ruminate on that a little while to let it sink in. Furthermore there's 3D support as well, and Silverl
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Flex Trick : Mengganti Background Color Sebuah Row Pada DataGrid

DataGrid merupakan sebuah komponen RIA( Rich Internet Applications ) yang biasa digunakan untuk menampilkan data berupa koleksi. Baik koleksi yang bertipe array , arraycollection , xml dan lain-lain. Kekurangan komponen DataGrid yang dibawa oleh Flex ini adalah menghapus fungsi setPropertiesAt() yang dulunya digunakan pada Adobe Flash . Dengan dihapusnya fungsi setPropertiesAt() ini, maka kita tidak bisa memberi warna pada sebuah row tertentu pada DataGrid. Namun ada sebuah cara u
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Posts about job as of March 19, 2009

wtb TDI jetta need advice, any auctions? - canadianfreestuff.ca 03/19/2009 Ok, so I would like to buy a 1999.5 + TDI diesel jetta, or 4 door golf is fine too
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Providing AMF REST Resources in Java

Related MicroZone ResourcesTake the web with you. Download Adobe AIRBuild Beautiful Apps: Download Flex Builder 3Download the Flex 3 Developer GuideLearn Flex 3 in a WeekBuilding and Deploying Flex 3 Apps GuideGumbo MAX PreviewAdobe Flash Collaboration ServiceDurango - Build mashups on Adobe AIRThis section sponsored by:Action Message Format (AMF) is a high-performance web services protocol that was developed and designed especially for Flash applications by Adobe. AMF is generally considered an
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On the Trail of Ichabod, The Adobe Headless Flash Player

One fine day, Adobe got a feature request to create a headless flash player for running unit tests. A fortnight earlier than that, around July 1st 2007, both Google and Adobe reported news about collaboration for Flash SEO and about improved SWF searchability. Google in particular answered an interesting question. Q: How does Google
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The Rise of Recovery.gov and the Virtuous Cycle of Transparency Innovation

In the short 30 days since the President signed the Recovery Act (aka Stimulus Bill) into law and Recovery.gov launched: 26 of 28 federal agencies currently handling stimulus dollars have launched websites at identical
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Tips for building AIR applications that can be easily updated

Learn about the potential pitfalls when building and deploying an Adobe AIR application update.
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Cooking in Flex with faqcontrib

Share faqcontrib's experience and start contributing to Flex cookbook.
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Foundation Fireworks CS4 excerpts: Visual effects and extending Fireworks

Learn about creating popular visual effects, and understand the SWF panel development process to get the most out of Fireworks.
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Using Flex Ant Tasks to build Flex projects ??? Part I: Creating a build script for Flex

Learn how to set up, create, and execute a basic Ant build script using the Adobe Flex Ant tasks.
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Encoding options for H.264 video

Learn how H.264 video works and how to encode it for Flash Player delivery using Adobe Media Encoder or Adobe Flash Media Encoding Server.
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Upcoming Open Iteration Meeting

When: March 24th
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Developing Mashup Air Apps: Yahoo Maps Web Services

My second contribution to InsideRIA portal is online. The article "Yahoo Maps Web Services"  is an excerpted from Chapter 18 of the O'Reilly Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook (by David Tucker, Marco Casario, Koen De Weggheleire, and Rich Tretola). Yahoo provides two kind of APIs, according to the programming language you use: The Ajax API is designed to use DHTML and JavaScript to host maps. Yahoo provides the JavaScript functions to make mapping a breeze. The ActionScript 3 Flash APIs are designe
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Video - Sexy Apps with Flex

By James Ward | Published: March 17, 2009 While I was attending the Java Posse Roundup 2009 I was able to give a 5-minute Lightning Talk about Flex. There are now so many amazing things to show with Flex that it
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links for 2009-03-17

Alcatel-Lucent Directory Server to enable service providers to offer personalized mobile communication and Web 2.0 applications to consumers and businesses Details of a recent Alcatel-Lucent product release for web 2.0. (tags: alcatel-lucent alcatel ) Image effect using fillRect, Actionscript 2 - sephiroth.it Interesting flex image effect. (tags: flex adobe images ) Adobe - Photo Viewer sample application A flex slideshow app. looks cool. (tags: flex adobe
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Learn about Configurator, PS scripting at PS World

If you're attending Photoshop World in Boston next week & have an interest in customizing/extending Photoshop, please come check out the sessions that Jeff Tranberry, Tom Ruark, and I are doing on Wednesday afternoon. We'll start things simple with Configurator & move gradually into actual script-writing. I've posted the details in this post's extended entry . Photoshop Extensibility and Productivity Track (Room 206) Learn how to customize and extend Photoshop CS4 using the
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A New Arcade Button Controlller Is Born

One of the users in our rapidly expanding forum has made this wonderfully fun arcade controller and shared some info on how you can do it yourself.  Inspired by the Monome and Ean
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Population density of Flash Platform Developers

view source I have to say that I have totally underestimated the Netherlands as a center f
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Action Script Developer Required (Karachi)

Employer: Industry: Software DevelopmentLocation: PakistanWe are looking for Action Script developer who can work in Flex environment and should possess.Strong in Action-Script development in Flex Environment.Should have knowledge of Audio/Video conferencing in Action Script.Object-oriented programming, analysis and design with Action Script.Audio and Video streaming with Adobe Flash Media Server..Net experience would be a plus.Email this Job to a Friend | Share on Twitter
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INSPIRE - Adobe Experience Design Team new site

Adobe Experience Design Team has established a new INSPIRE site  to help you learn and inspire about new technologies, reviews and articles.Inspire is built all in Flex and includes video interviews, feeds from the the team and links to innovating site designs.The current version of Inspire includes exclusive interview with Julie Meridian, Senior Experience Designer,  about the Multi-touch screen technology and the hopes that lays  on it change the computer world with a new trend of interactivit
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blog advicing: My Tech World

This blog is about the new evolving web applications and... language Adobe Flex and AIR with samples and coding techniques. Check the blog "My tech world"
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New Articles on Adobe.com

In case you missed these articles, here is a list with the latest: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/seo/ a new section on Adobe.com about Search Engine Optimization Technology: Search optimization checklist for RIAs Adobe Flash Player version checking protocol Enhanced search indexing of SWF content Encoding options for H.264 video Using Flex Ant Tasks to build Flex projects
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9 Hot Web Shows on Design, Technology and the Internet

Battlestar Galactica will be airing their season finale, and the last episode of the series EVER, this weekend. In case you experience some withdrawals here are 9 shows centered around what a lot of us use for a living and the tools used to create the content we see on a daily basis, the Internet and Technology. Most of these shows don
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James Ward at TriJUG (or, the hardest working man in RIA)

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Public Certified Flex Training in New York, May 11-15

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Using timeline labels to dispatch events with the ActionScript 3.0 TimelineWatcher class

Use the TimelineWatcher class to programmatically monitor the timeline while keeping it separate from your application logic.
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Search optimization checklist for RIAs

Integrate search into the planning stages and production cycles you will encounter when developing RIAs.
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Search optimization techniques for RIAs

Understand the challenges and learn techniques to improve the relevance of your SWF content in search results.
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Adobe Flash Player version checking protocol

Learn what to watch out for and what techniques to utilize to ensure that search engine spiders can enter your website's front door.
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Gobsmacked by the SixthSense Prototype This Friday

Only last week I had been thinking about rich applications of the next generation . I thought that the video about Adobe Multi-touch Flex would be the top video I will have watched this week. But my user-interface designer friend shared an amazing video that I now think will top all I will have watched for months to come. The SixthSense prototype has been created by Pranav Mistry, Pattie Maes and Liyan Chang of the MIT Media Lab. Seeing as a real world feasibility is vastly different
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Build an YChat! Instant Messenger application using Flash Lite for mobile devices

Learn how to create a mobile chat application that accesses the Yahoo! Instant Messenger server.
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Debugging JavaScript code in Adobe AIR with Aptana Studio

Check out the JavaScript debugger, part of the Adobe AIR Development Plug-In for Aptana Studio.
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SAP Polestar Innovation Challenge

SAP has provided a new resource for Solvers working on the Polestar Innovation Challenge. Ted Ueda, who works for SAP Business Objects has posted some sample API code on his blog to get you up and running quickly: If you
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Alternativa 3D - Loading Model

A basic function of any 3D engine is to load 3D models. Alternativa has the ability to load 3D models stored in both the 3DS and OBJ formats. In this tutorial we will learn how to load a 3DS model. In the last tutorial I introduced the ResourceManager class as a location where you can embed images to be used as textures. This has the advantage of keeping all the files and resources for an application in one location. Unfortunately the Alternativa Loader3DS class, which we will use t
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Flex, ActionScript and AIR Training

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Flex Helps Catch A Thief!

Last week, Adobe Platform Evangelist James Ward , attended the Java Posse Roundup 2009 conference in Colorado. James just wrote up a report on this trip, and I just had to share the following excerpt (this is a straight copy and paste, no editing): The highlight of the trip was a lightning talk about how one of the attendees used a Flex app to recover a friend's stolen laptop. The presenter discovered that the friend's stolen laptop was signed into Skype so he sent a message to the thief pret
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