You can grab it from here.

Make sure to check out all of the resources and sample apps on the Apollo Labs Wiki.

I have written up a logged in article which gives an overview of this release.

As part of Apollo Camp tonight, we will have an Apollo Camp Twitter account to make it easy for anyone to leave messages, ask questions, or make comments on Apollo Camp and / or the current sessions.

Here is the info:

http://twitter.com/apollocamp

In order to participate, create and login to your Twitter account, and add the apollocamp account as a friend (linked on the right side of the page of the URL above).

Just a quick fyi, but I created a temporary Apollo Camp Smart Category at MXNA. Check it out if you want to catch the latest posts about Apollo Camp.

You can subscribe the the RSS feed here.

Only 2 days left until Apollo Camp. I wanted to make a quick post with some updates.

First, Apollo Camp is sold out and we already have a long waiting list. We will not be adding new people as we are already pretty tight on space. Don’t worry though if you cant make it. We will post videos of all sessions on video.onflex.org, and are talking about doing additional Apollo Camps this summer.

If you follow my weblog, then you know that I have been playing around with shooting video’s showing off Apollo and Flex. While I am in no way a video professional, I like doing the videos as I think they are a lot clearer (especially when discussing something visual).

Anyways, I have been posting them to google video, and then blogging them here, but I haven’t been too happy with that. The video quality at google video is not what I would like, and there is not one place to link and index all of the videos.

During my Apollo overview session at 360Flex, I built a simple HTML editor that provided live preview and allowed the HTML to save to the desktop. It is a pretty simple app, but it shows an example of using both the File API in Apollo as well as HTML.

I mentioned in the session that I would post it online, so here it is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute">
    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[ import flash.filesystem.FileMode; import
        flash.filesystem.FileStream; import flash.filesystem.File; /* Called
        when the user wants to save the file */ private function onSave():void {
        //Get a reference to the desktop var desktop:File =
        File.desktopDirectory; //create a reference to the file on the desktop
        in which we will save html var saveFile:File =
        desktop.resolve(fileName.text); //create a FileStream instance to write
        to the file var fs:FileStream = new FileStream(); //open file in WRITE
        mode fs.open(saveFile, FileMode.WRITE); //write the string to the file
        fs.writeUTFBytes(input.text); //close the file / file stream fs.close();
        } /* called when text in the TextArea changes */ private function
        onTextChange():void { //pretty simple. Copy text from TextArea into HTML
        control as HTML html.htmlText = input.text; } ]]>
    </mx:Script>

    <!-- Used to enter HTML -->
    <mx:TextArea
        right=""
        left=""
        id="input"
        top=""
        height="139"
        textInput="onTextChange()"
    />

    <!-- Save Button -->
    <mx:Button
        label="Save"
        id="saveButton"
        bottom="10"
        right="10"
        click="onSave()"
    />

    <!-- File Name on Desktop to save HTML in -->
    <mx:TextInput id="fileName" right="72" bottom="10" text="test.html" />

    <!-- HTML field to do live preview of HTML -->
    <mx:HTML right="" left="" top="147" bottom="40" id="html" />
</mx:Application>

Post any questions in the comments.

Sean Moore has just posted a useful ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 Migration Cheatsheet.

You can check it out here.

The guys over at ScaleNine are looking for some input on what they should put on their custom silk screen Apollo t-shirts they are making.

You can post your suggestions here.

The Apollo team is heads down working on finishing up the first public alpha release build for labs. I wanted to give a quick update on where we are, as well as provide some information about the labs release.

The first release on labs will be an alpha release. This means that the build will not be feature complete, and those features implemented may not be completely implemented (such as the windowing API). It also means that there will be bugs (make sure to check out the release notes before you play around with it).

I just updated the Adobe news Firefox extension so that it will now work with Firefox 2.0.

The extension has not yet been re-branded from Macromedia to Adobe, but it still aggregates all of the weblog posts from Adobe.

You can find more information, as well as download the latest version from here.