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Last week in FUG meet when we were having discussions on Adobe Certification, I came to know about various queries that might occur in a developer’s mind before going for a costly exam, for becoming an Adobe Certified Expert. I changed my long time awaited article to cover up the queries and I hope this will be a nice heads up for the certification aspirants.

The intention while writing this article is to generate awareness about Adobe Flex Certification and to clear myths, which are buzzing around the developer forums. My intention is not to provide an answer sheet, which may pass you the exam, but to give you a way, which directly reaches, to your success i.e. Adobe Certified Flex 2 Developer.
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A surprise delivery arrived today at my office. A small packet having Adobe logo on it. I was very curious about it and I filled with joy when I saw Raghu’s name on it. I cleared the courier formalities and quickly grabbed the packet and popped it to open. I filled with joy and almost screamed when I saw something which was like a my most awaited gift. I saw “ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns” book with a really cool happy note written by Raghu, (hmmm Techies sheldom write something ).

It was a pretty nice gift by Raghu on clearing my Adobe Certification and that is why it is very special to me. Raghu has always been very supportive to me and once again I do not want to miss the opportunity to say thanks to him and the Adobe team.

Thanks again.

Hi,

As the monsoon touches Pune and the green city becomes more greener, its the right time to join and celebrate. As planned we are having 2nd User Group meet today at Netscout Systems at 5-6:30 PM.

Wiki:  http://punefug.wikidot.com

Venue:

Netscout Systems India Ltd.
Amar Caliber, Off BMCC College Road.

Hoping to see you all there….

Create engaging, cross-platform rich Internet applications

Rich Internet Applications produce eye-popping results because they stand tall against the swarm of ordinary Internet applications.

Adobe’s innovative tools like Flex, Adobe AIR™ and Flash and more enable you to combine rich motion, video, imaging, and sound creating the rich experience. And that’s not all; Adobe makes sure that your Rich Internet Applications run smoothly on millions of PC’s and Internet devices. The Adobe® Flash® Player runtime reaches 98% of Internet-enabled computers and more than 450 million devices, offering you greater reach than with any other client technology available.

Adobe AIR™, the latest client from Adobe, leverages the power of Flash Player while adding the capability to deploy RIAs directly to the desktop.
Venue: Deccan Rendezvous, Pune | Date: 30th April ‘08 | Time: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm (more…)

First of all thanks for all you guys for all the love and support.

Here I am starting a new section “RIA App of the Week” which will give my reader an insight of a well known RIA product every week. The App may or may be not be developed in Adobe products but its hard to imagine a true RIA without Adobe.

Here I am starting with well known RIA app recently migrated in Adobe Flex, Coghead ver 2.0. Did I forgot to mention Coghead is the “RIA App of the Week” (more…)

Adobe has released Flex and Flex Builder 3 Beta 2 .

Flex 3 applications will run on any version of Flash Player 9, although size optimization through cross-domain RSLs is only supported on Flash Player 9,0,60,235 or later. Newer versions of Flash Player also include additional bug fixes.

“This public prerelease version continues our new, more transparent product development process, providing frequent, regular access to early builds and greater insight into the feature roadmap and planning process.”

Ted has some interesting news for  Flex developers.

New packaging and pricing will be available for Adobe Flex 3 when it ships early in 2008.
Adobe Flex™ Builder™ 3 Standard Edition         $249
Adobe Flex™ Builder™ 3 Professional Edition    $699

Ted writes, “If you are not already using Flex, I’d like to encourage you to download Adobe Flex Builder 2 and take another look. Use the serial number below to extend your expired Flex Builder 2 trial for another 30 days. At the end of your trial, starting November 1, 2007, you will be able to purchase Flex Builder 2 for only $249.

MAC extension serial #: 1307-0059-4523-4261-9974-9828
WIN extension serial #: 1307-1052-9498-6822-0041-4602

visit:labs.adobe.com

Here comes, A new player in online Word processing game. Sources say, Adobe Systems has officially entered the “Web office” game. it has acquired an 11-person start-up, called Virtual Ubiquity, that has built a free Web word processor called Buzzword. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The move expands Adobe’s collaborative software services and steps up its competition with Microsoft. Google and a host of other Web application providers.

Adobe also is scheduled to announce a service, code-named Share, that allows people to invite others to view and access documents stored by Adobe. Documents can be embedded inside a Web page as well. The service, which is still in testing mode, will offer users one gigabyte of storage for free.

Adobe is also set to release its own Media Player version 1.0 in the first half of next year.

30 Days of FREE online Flex training

Adobe has partnered with Total Training to offer Free Online Flex Training for 30 days. Visit the link below, and start learning some Flex!

www.totaltraining.com/guest/adobe

Hurry up. This promotion runs until Dec 31, 2007.