RIAdventure is a ColdFusion / Flex / AIR conference and event, on a Bahamas cruise. Yep, you read that right, you get to use your favorite languages and tools while enjoying the Bahamas - and the price is really good, too!
The BBC has been using Microsoft technologies for widgets that are used by "hundreds of thousands of users". And they have just publicly stated that they have dumped the Microsoft solution for an Adobe AIR one. paidContent has posted details, too.
The Flex SDK is open source, and the community is encouraged to submit code and fix bugs. And as an extra incentive to contribute bug fixes, the Flex SDK team is offering to buy books from your Amazon.com wish list, a book for each 3 bugs fixed. Details posted online .
Adobe has announced new technologies that will allow SWF content to be indexed and searchable, not just text in the SWF, but also data generated programmatically and at runtime. Lots of good info in the SWF Searchability FAQ . Google is the first to leverage this new ability, and some great...
The Michigan Flex User's Group will be hosting a FlexCamp in Lansing, Michigan, on the 30th and 31st of July. This FlexCamp is targeted at Flex and AIR beginners, and attendance is being limited to 150 people. And this is a hands-on conference - all sessions are designed to allow you to follow...
RedMonk's James Governor has announced that he's tag-teaming with our own James Ward to present a "SAP Enterprisey Nanoconference" at Adobe's London office on July 11th.
Jeff Graham e-mailed me tell me about the launch of Flex Gigs , a site for Flex job listings. Just two listing there for now, but hopefully that number will grow significantly.
The Yahoo! Maps AS3 Component is nothing short of astounding, a clean and powerful Flex component that delivers sophisticated mapping quickly and easily. I needed to add mapping to an app recently and was pleased to see how well this component delivered. If you are interested in adding mapping to...
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We recently welcomed four new members to the Adobe Platform Evangelism team, all based out of our Romania office, and all concentrating on evangelism in Europe (and Eastern Europe specifically). The new team members, with links to their blogs, are: Cornel Creanga Mihai Corlan Mihai Pricope Remus...