If you are itching to get a head start on development with Flex 2, Flex Builder, ActionScript 3 and Flash Player 8.5, make sure that you sign up for and attend either the Max conference next week, or Spark Europe in November (or go to both!). Both conferences will have tons of sessions on all of the new technologies.
If you have questions and want to drill down deeper, there will be plenty of Macromedia people at both conferences.
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Just a quick FYI, but Kevin Lynch’s Web 2.0 conference presentation on the Flash Player 8.5 and Flex 2.0 announcements (that I posted about on Friday) is now up on YouTube.
You can view it here.
Well, as you probably know by now, we announced the Flex 2.0 family of technologies for developer applications for the Flash Platform. These included Flash Player 8.5, ActionScript 3, Flex Builder 2.0, Flex Framework 2.0 and Flex Enterprise services.
I am going to post more about the significance of what we announced early next week (think Flex Framework for everyone). In the meantime, Mark Anders and Sho Kuwamoto both have great posts on what we announced yesterday.
Just a quick note, but I am at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 conference the rest of the week. If you are at the conference, make sure to say hi.
Kevin Lynch is giving a presentation tomorrow that I think people are going to be really excited about (can’t say too much more right now though). I’ll try to get a video of the session and post it online.
Also, sorry for the lack of posting lately. I expect that it will significantly pick up in the next couple of days / weeks.
I am so excited that this is finally happening. United Digital Artists, one of the two companies that have put on all of the past FlashForward conferences is launching a new Flash conference in Europe. I have been working with UDA behind the scenes to help make this happen, and it is shaping up to be a killer conference.
First, here are the details.
November 16 - 18 in Amsterdam (at the really cool Paradiso)
As many of you have noticed, Flash Resource Manager does not work with Flash 8. This is because the path to the help files is hardcoded (at least for the first load) for Flash MX 2004.
I just played around with the source, and it was pretty easy for me to fix, so once I get the correct version of Visual Studio installed, I am going to try and update it so it will work with both Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8.
Colin Moock has put together a pretty comprehensive review of Flash 8.
You can read the entire review here.
Flash 8 is available for purchase, download and trial.
You can find more info here.
