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Flex 4 SDK, Flex in the world, Flex news, Mobile, Spark
Meet Hero… The Next Flex SDK Release
Andrei Ionescu | 14.07.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

The next release of Flex SDK is code-named Hero. It has three main goals:

Multi-Screen Development: Allow developers to build applications that target the web, desktop or mobile devices using a single unified framework.
Spark Maturation: Polish and grow the Spark architecture by adding new Spark components and capabilities.
Large-Application Development: Support developers building large applications by improving [...]
AIR, ActionScript, Android, Flash, Flex in the world, MXML, Made in Flex, Mobile
Two New Apps with Multi-Screen Experince
Andrei Ionescu | 06.07.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Last two week I seen two great applications that make use of multi-screen experience capabilities of Flash Platform.

Androideroids by Grant Skinner
Desktop MP3 Music Player by Mihai Corlan

The first is a prototype multiplayer asteroids game in which each player uses an Android phone as their game controller. The player connects to the game and [...]
Flash, Flex in the world, Flex resources, Fun, Magazines
Flasher Magazine Issue 3 by Lee Brimelow
Andrei Ionescu | 23.04.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Lee Brimelow, Platform Evangelist at Adobe released the 3rd issue of Flasher Magazine and you can watch it on his blog.
Just want to let you know a great quote by Ralph Huawert before letting you see the movie:
Flash is still all about the people who build the content
Enjoy it!
Conferences, Meetings & Events, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, Flash Player, Flash Player 10.1, Flex 4 SDK, Flex in the world, Flex news
FX4 Tour – Flex Camp Bucharest is Over
Andrei Ionescu | 19.04.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

The FX4 Tour – Flex Camp Bucharest is over now. It has been a great success: there has been around 60 participants from which 65-70 percent were Flex developers. This is great! The Flex community is growing bigger and stronger.
Three interesting things:

seen TransformGestureEvent in action
Slider – Flex Mobile Framework is expected to be available in [...]
Conferences, Meetings & Events, Flash Catalyst, Flex 2, Flex 3 SDK, Flex 4 SDK, Flex Builder 3, Flex IDE, Flex in the world
How It’s Made – Mark Anders
Andrei Ionescu | 21.01.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Wednesday, 27th of January, in Bucharest, Mark Anders, the creator of Flash Catalyst will tell us how Flash Catalyst appeared and how it got done. For anyone who doesn’t know about him, Mark Anders is a major contributor for the whole Adobe Flex platform.
The meeting starts at 6 PM but we will start gather and [...]
Flash, Flex in the world
Google: 1-0 in Flash vs Sliverlight
Andrei Ionescu | 13.09.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

In this article from Google Webmaster Tools is presented the way Google manages Rich Media Files and Formats.
Some important points:

Google can index text in any flash content
sIFR is indexed as text by Google
Google is continually working to improve our indexing of Flash files
Google still have problems accessing the content of other rich media formats such [...]
ActionScript, Flex 3 SDK, Flex Builder 3, Flex in the world, Fun, Made in Flex
Project Quindici by Serge Jespers
Andrei Ionescu | 22.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

If you’ve been following Serge Jesper son Twitter, you may have seen his tweets about a secret project called Quindici. Well… the project now is finalized and public… and is a widget created especially for Adobe MAX Conference.
You can see it bellow or on MAX Conference site.

You can find some interesting facts about Adobe MAX [...]
Flex in the world, Flex resources, How to, PHP
Flex For PHP Developers – A Must Read “Book Like” Article
Andrei Ionescu | 19.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Mihai Corlan, Platform Evangelist at Adobe, finalized a “book like” article for PHP developers. I mentioned the “book like” words because the article is long, very long.
The purpose of Mihai’s article is…
I want to share with you some of the things that are specific to Flex in relation to PHP. At the same time [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news, Flex resources
Adobe is Looking for Flex Developers to Participate in Research Study
Andrei Ionescu | 15.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Yesterday, Matt Chotin was writing on the Flex Team blog (see here) that flex developers are needed to take part in research studies.
Adobe is interested how the professionals are using their tools, and especially about the work flow of flex developers. So you need to be a flex developer to qualify for this research [...]
ActionScript, Flash, Flex in the world, Flex news, Flex resources, Magazines
Starting with September 2009 FFDMag Will Be a Free Online Magazine
Andrei Ionescu | 28.07.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

This is a good thing for us, developers. We will have the possibility to access this good resource free and easy. To quote their press release:
Since September 2009 FFD Magazine becomes online magazine. What is important – it will be also FREE of ANY charges. The only thing you need to do is to sign [...]
AIR, Flex in the world, Flex news, Made in Flex
Adobe Wave Is Launched
Andrei Ionescu | 24.07.09 | Permalink | Comment?

A few day ago Adobe launched Wave – a desktop notification system for your favorite websites. To understand it better think about it like an aggregator that keeps together all your favorite social networks and websites.
The application is built using Adobe AIR and connects to different services and alerts you when changes are made or [...]
Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, Flex IDE, Flex in the world, Flex news
Flash Catalyst & Flash Builder are Now Public Beta
Andrei Ionescu | 01.06.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Starting today, Flash Catalyst & Flash Builder 4 are in public beta.

You can download them from Adobe’s site by following these links:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/ for Flash Catalyst
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashbuilder4/ for Flash Builder

If didn’t hear about them, Flash Catalyst is:
…a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding.
And Flash Builder 4 is the [...]
Flash, Flash Player, Flex 2, Flex Builder 3, Flex IDE, Flex in the world, Flex news
Flex Builder Rebranded into Flash Builder
Andrei Ionescu | 21.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Many of you may already know about the rebranding of Flex Builder. It will no longer be named Flex Builder but Flash Builder. Adobe took this action in order to make the Flash name (and platform) a stronger one. Flex will not disappear but it will remain as framework. Neither Flash IDE. I know many [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news, Flexer, Fun, RoFUG
Adobe Developer Day Bucharest – We Were There
Andrei Ionescu | 20.05.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Yesterday (19th of May) we’ve been attending the Adobe Developer Day in Bucharest. It took place at Intercontinental Hotel in various places because beside the general session there were other bootcamps taking place in the same time. Attendance was ok at least in the morning although more people could attend to the event. Interesting is [...]
AIR, ActionScript, Components, Flex in the world, Flex resources, Magazines
Contributing to FFDMag
Andrei Ionescu | 27.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I’ve been working on an article for Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine. The article’s name is How to use Yahoo! Maps in Flex and show how you can use Yahoo! Maps on your RIA. The article is based on two articles from our blog which had been combined and developed further.
The articles are:

How To Add [...]

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