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Everything there is to know about Flex 4 / Gumbo

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About a month ago, the Flex team announced that nightly builds of the next version of Flex (code named Gumbo) were now available on the opensource Flex site. Along with early versions of the SDK, the team also posted a ton of other information, including specs and API docs.

Below is a listing of links and resources about Gumbo / Flex 4. Going through these will quickly get your up to speed on what is being worked on in Flex 4, and get your ready for playing around with the new builds.

Official opensource project page
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Gumbo

Flex 4 Downloads
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4

Gumbo Themes
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Gumbo+Themes

An Introduction to the Gumbo Component Architecture
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Gumbo+Component+Architecture

Flex 4 Language / API Reference
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/gumbo/langref/

Videos
The Next Dimension of Rich Experiences (360 Flex Keynote) Mark Anders
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1753161885/bctid1741161343

Flex SDK Next Plan (Matt Chotin)
http://flexorg.wip3.adobe.com/gumbo/gumboplan.htm

Flex 4 Skinning Architechture : Deepa Subramaniam
http://bit.ly/46xv4V

Designer / Developer Workflow in Flex 4 (Ely Greenfield)
http://bit.ly/zM2h2

Feature Specifications

Podcast : The Future of Flex : Matt Chotin on the Flex Show
http://www.theflexshow.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/30/The-Flex-Show–Episode-49-The-Future-of-Flex-with-Matt-Chotin

More Resources
Flex Developer Forums
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c060f85/

Flex Team Blog
http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/

Sean Moore also has a good link round up on his blog.

If you have any more resources or links, post them in the comments.

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August 27th, 2008 at 11:06 am

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  1. Dude, thanks for compiling this … I finally get some time to start looking at Gumbo and you do most of the hard work for me! I owe you a pint of frothy London-town ale.

    Lee Probert

    27 Aug 08 at 11:26 am

  2. I have been posting various Gumbo examples as well.

    Mine can be seen at http://blog.smartlogicsolutions.com/category/flex-4/

    Sherif Abdou is another person I see making Gumbo examples: http://sherifabdou.com/

    Greg J

    27 Aug 08 at 11:28 am

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  19. Thanks for the wonderful artical~
    By the way, anybody know what’s the below means?

    “To ensure a project retains any merged manifests for a namespace, an application-level configuration file can be used.

    app-config.xml

    …

    …

    http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009
    mxml-2009-manifest.xml
    gumbo-manifest.xml

    …
    ”

    I know I must use the app-config.xml, but where and how to use it?

    Thanks in advance!
    Email:shineandsky@gmail.com

    mani.

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  24. Deepa Subramaniam’s video is outstanding when thinking of showcasing smth. :) what i’ve managed to understand, is that in case you are building smth. on Gumbo you should avoid Matt and Ely in first place. :)

    Have fun. Adobe rocks.

    Nelu Tarna

    18 Jan 09 at 3:26 am

  25. Mike! I’m getting a Page not found error for the link to Ely’s video on Designer / Developer Workflow…

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    29 Apr 09 at 1:20 am

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  27. *Video Not Found*
    The Next Dimension of Rich Experiences (360 Flex Keynote) Mark Anders
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