Over the next few months there are a number of great technology conferences across the globe. I’ll be speaking about Adobe AIR and Flex at: Java Posse Roundup on March 3 – 6 in Crested Butte, CO TheServerSide Java Symposium on March 18 – 20 in Las Vegas Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise on March [...]
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Upcoming Flex Presos: Colorado, Vegas, Philly, Sydney, and Brisbane
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Learn Flex Fast – 3 Day Jam in Crested Butte, Colorado
Bruce Eckel and I will be hosting a 3 day Adobe AIR and Flex Jam in Crested Butte, Colorado – February 25 – 27. If you are learning Flex or diving deeper into Flex then this will be a great opportunity to quickly learn more. For beginners we will work through our book First Steps [...]
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Video: Desktop RIAs on Linux with Adobe AIR 1.5
Adobe recently announced the release of Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux! For us Linux users this is huge! Now desktop RIAs with Adobe AIR work the same on Windows, Mac, and Linux! I recorded a short instructional video that shows how to get it working. (Original video size is 1024 x 768 so you might [...]
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Flash Platform Partner Resources
The Flash Platform (Adobe AIR, Flash Player, Flex, etc.) has become a mainstream software development platform. This is very exciting but also leads to me getting a boat-load of email. That is great! I love hearing from the community and answering questions. I do respond to every email I get – even if it takes [...]
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Learn Flex Fast – Adobe AIR and Flex Jam in Colorado
February 25 – 27, 2009 Bruce Eckel and I will be hosting a Flex / Adobe AIR Jam in Crested Butte, Colorado. Anyone who needs to learn Flex or take their Flex programming skills further will enjoy the atmosphere and methodology of this event. Attendees can: Follow our book First Steps in Flex Follow our [...]
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Using Adobe AIR and Flex to Make Your Apps *Bling*
At Dreamforce 2008, Salesforce.com’s annual conference, I co-presented a session about integrating Adobe AIR and Flex with Force.com. A recording of that presentation is now available. Let me know what you think.
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Oracle CRM Gadgets using Adobe AIR and Flex
Oliver Marks is reporting that Oracle has released five new CRM Gadgets built using Adobe AIR and Flex! At Oracle OpenWorld 2008 I had the chance to record a video of these new gadgets. Check it out: This is a great innovation in the usually boring CRM software space. Great job Oracle!
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Take the Tour de Flex
Over the past few months Greg Wilson, Christophe Coenraets, and myself have been hard at work on a secret project. So today we are proud to announce the new Tour de Flex has just gone live! Tour de Flex showcases the capabilities of Flex, BlazeDS, LCDS, Adobe AIR, and Flash Player (now collectively called the [...]
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Flash Player for 64-bit Linux – BETA NOW AVAILABLE!
Getting Flash Player working on 64-bit Linux systems has been a challenge. But not anymore! Today Adobe Systems released a beta of native Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux! Check it out and report bugs to the open Flash Player bug database. Here is a short video I shot of me testing the new Flash [...]
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