eWeek (print edition) is running a story (which I can't find online, although I did find a related video post) on JavaFX, and has a supporting story (which I also can't find online) entitled RIA 1.1. It contains an O'Reilly based graph showing the results when they "asked 200 developers what RIA...
We're running a series of Adobe Day events focusing on Flex, AIR, ColdFusion, and LiveCycle Data Services. Adobe Day Boston is on Monday, February 9, 2009, and I am scheduled to speak. Registration is open and there is still some room left. UPDATE: Looks like this is going to be reschedule for some...
I presented a MegaLab hands-on session in San Francisco and Milan, and introduced lots of developers to data-services powered Flex and AIR apps. The session walked Windows and Mac developers through a dozen hands-on apps that started with basic data integration and worked all the way up to data...
Michael Chaize is an Adobe Consultant in France, and he also teaches Flex in a school in Paris. He recently ran an "AIR Idol" contest for his students, and the apps they built are really impressive. The students have also published the applications they developed during 2008. Good stuff!
I previously mentioned Amethyst , SapphireSteel 's upcoming Flex Visual Studio plug-in. SapphireSteel has just posted a demo of their Visual Designer , an interactive Flex page layout UI that will be part of Amethyst Professional.
Fellow platform evangelist Lee Brimelow is a die-hard Flash user. But even Lee acknowledges that sometimes Flex is the best tool for the job, and he has just posted a video tutorial , targeted at Flash users, on getting started with Flex.
TOP GUN (formerly WebManiacs) is Fig Leaf's new 3 day training event covering ColdFusion, Flex, and AIR. Top Gun runs June 8th-10th in Washington, DC, and is limited to 100 participants. Registration is now open, as is the call for papers .
Flex Camp Orange County is scheduled for Saturday, January 31, 2009, at Boeing in Huntington Beach, CA. The speaker lineup has been posted, and includes fellow Adobe evangelist Kevin Hoyt . Seating is going to be limited to 150 people, and registration is now open.
At MAX I demoed Ensemble's Tofino , a Visual Studio plug-in for Flex development. But Tofino is not the only kid on the block, and SapphireSteel (who created a Ruby plug-in for Visual Studio) is also working on a Flex Visual Studio plug-in called Amethyst. SapphireSteel has just announced the...
Remus Stratulat has posted the source code for a simple Flex Regular Expression tester. If you need to use Regular Expressions in ActionScript code, this can get you started quickly.