September 04, 2008
See the 360Flex San Jose Video
For those not watching the sessions via AMP (and you really should), here's the video we created for the latest conference. Enjoy!
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NFL Sunday Night Football Available via Flash
Today we announced that NBC's Sunday Night Football is going to be simulcast live via streaming Flash Video. This is pretty cool stuff. If I hadn't been broadcasting my desktop in meetings today I would have watched my Redskins get their butts handed to them while at work (damn west coast time difference). So I haven't been able to watch the experience because they only do it when the game is live, but based on what I've read from the announcement and the website, seems like you're going to have a whole new way of experiencing the game!
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August 20, 2008
Want to be an Adobe Student Representative?
We're looking for folks who can help lead the way of RIAs using Adobe technology in their schools. We can help get you speaking opportunities, software, community recognition, etc. More info and a registration form on flex.org. If you're a full-time college student this might be a great opportunity!
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August 14, 2008
Get yourself in the MAX Keynote!
You all probably saw our very successful video collection, 30onair.com, right? Well we're asking for a new set of videos, 30 seconds on Why Adobe MAX. See the details over on Ted's blog. Top videos are going to make it into the MAX keynote.
Flex team may have to think of some as well :-)
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August 12, 2008
Another opportunity for a free MAX pass
In addition the MAX passes my team has available as part of our incentive program for Flex 3 contributions; we've introduced the Adobe AIR Cookbook Cook-off. Open to US residents only (sorry, for international contribute to Flex!), this is an opportunity to provide some top-notch knowledge to the rest of the community and get rewarded if your entry is considered great. So go ahead and contribute to the AIR Cookbook and win some of our fabulous prizes!
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August 06, 2008
Cairngorm now on opensource.adobe.com
I'm very pleased to see the open source infrastructure that we've set up at Adobe expanding further with our move of Cairngorm onto that domain. It takes a lot of work to create all of the content and infrastructure around a larger open source project, so congrats to the Adobe Consulting team for taking this step. Take a moment to check out the site and also check Steven's blog post for the Adobe Consulting take on where things may go.
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July 30, 2008
Self-promo: my latest interview on The Flex Show
I'm very glad that Jeff and John have been able to keep this podcast going strong. Episode 49 is a conversation with yours truly about Flex futures, trademarks and legal issues, etc.
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What Non-Flex Resources Have Helped You with Flex?
In a discussion with some Adobe Community Experts it came up that we expect you to have a reasonable amount of prerequisite knowledge to use Flex. You are better off if you have some familiarity with web development already, especially in areas such as exposing data as services, OO programming, CSS syntax, XML, etc. But not everyone who decides to learn Flex has all of that experience. So we were thinking it could be good to build up a list of general resources that can help with all the things you probably ought to know to improve your chances of success with Flex.
I don't know where we'll put this, but please start by commenting here on suggestions you might have for books, blogs, websites, online tutorials, etc. that provide the background material you might need to write any RIA, not just a Flex RIA. Feel free to be very specific, chapters in a book if you know them for example.
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July 28, 2008
First round of Flex video-based training materials posted
One of the things we've been working on over the last few months is a series of training materials designed to get you up and running with Flex in 5 days. We have a series of videos along with exercises that go through the fundamentals of Flex, meant to be covered in a simple week.
Check them out here and please give us feedback here.
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July 25, 2008
My talk at 360Flex San Jose
So 360Flex San Jose is coming up and I will be speaking about the Open Source Flex SDK Project. My plan is to quickly show the resources that are available such as the wiki, bugbase, and source control, and then go through some of the SDK itself and talk about its underlying architecture. This is going to be useful if you'd like to get in there and make edits to the SDK itself, but may also be useful as a Flex end-user.
If you have specifc things that you'd like to see covered, please let me know!
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