I just noticed that we have uploaded some new Videos of the Flex Builder and Flex Framework engineers, demonstrating some of the new features in the beta 2 Flex release on labs.
You can find all of the videos here.
You can download the beta 2 bits of Flex Builder 2, Flex Framework, ActionScript 3 and Flash Player 8.5 from here.
Just a quick note, but we have not yet released beta 2 compatible ZIPs of the ActionScript 3 libraries that we released with beta 1. We need to track down a couple of issues before we can rebuild the zips.
This means that you cannot use the library SWCs in the beta 2 builds of MXMLC or Flex Builder. However, the actual source for the libraries have been updated to beta 2 (Flickr still has one or two issues), and thus you can grab the source, and link against that (just add to your classpath).
Google just launched a new finance portal, and they are using the Flash / JavaScript integration kit to integrate some Flash charting and Ajax integration.
This is similar to MeasureMap’s use of the kit (MeasureMap was recently acquired by Google). It is a really nice combination of Flash and Ajax, and demonstrates how each can be use in a way that takes advantage of their individual strengths.
You can check out the implementation here.
I am in Vegas for the Mix 06 conference this week. If you are here for the conference and want to hang out you can reach me at mesh@adobe.com. (I will also be at the party tonight).
We announced this during the keynote at FlashForward, but I wanted to make sure everyone was aware of it.
We have created a wish-apollo mailing list to allow developers to submit ideas, feature requests, and bribes to the apollo team.
What is Apollo? Apollo is a cross platform / device runtime that will allow developers to deploy applications that leverage Flash, HTML and / or PDF to the desktop.
Discusses a lot of the advantages from the integration of Flash / HTML / Ajax.
The Adobe Consulting Team has posted a Flex 2 version of their Flex Style explorer.
This is an application that allows you to visually tweak the styles of the Flex components, and then get the resulting CSS to use in your application.
I just finished up working on a highly stylized application with Flex 2. While CSS / Styling support is very good in Flex 2, it can be difficult to figure out just what style does what you need. This application helps solve that problem.
I am at WebDU in Sydney all week. This is consistently one of my favorite conferences in the year, and this year’s conference looks like it might be the best yet.
I gave the opening keynote this morning, which was a lot of fun, and a real honor for me. I spoke about Macromedia and Adobe joining together, and how I am excited about the opportunities it presents for the Flash Platform.
You can view it here.
Requires Flash Player 8.5 Runtime Beta which you can grab from labs.
