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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…)

Hi Guys

Sorry for writing after a very very long time. I was on a long break
A lot of thing happen during this period which I ll share soon.

Right now a good comparison  between 3 RIA technology and yes Flex is a clear Winner
Read the full story by Kevin here

Guys I must say that this is an awesome gift for all of us.

Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide Mike Chambers, Rob Dixon, Jeff Swartz explains how to build and deploy Flash-based Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop using Adobe’s Flex framework. This book describes concisely how Apollo works, and offers numerous examples for those who want to start building RIAs for the desktop right away.

Why put RIAs on the desktop? They’re already supposed to offer the responsiveness of desktop programs. Unfortunately, web browsers were designed to deliver and display HTML-based documents, not applications. The conflict between document- and application-focused functionality creates several problems when deploying applications via the browser.

Adobe Apollo gives you the best of both worlds — the web development model and true desktop functionality. This pocket guide explains how to:

• Set up your development environment
• Create your first application
• Use the File I/O API
• Use HTML within Flex-based Apollo applications
• Use the included Apollo mini-cookbook for common tasks

The book also includes a guide to Apollo packages, classes, and command-line tools. Once you understand the basics of building a Flex-based Apollo application, this pocket guide makes an ideal reference for tackling specific problems.

Download PDF version of  Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide

Adobe has released Adobe® Integrated Runtime (AIR) update for Flash® CS3 beta 1 software which will allow developers to package and preview .air application files directly within Adobe Flash CS3; leveraging existing Flash development skills to build desktop-enabled distributed applications and experiences with the Adobe AIR™ framework.

Download the Adobe AIR Installer

Macintosh
Download the Adobe AIR update for Flash CS3 Professional for Macintosh (27 MB)
Windows
Download the Adobe AIR update for Flash CS3 Professional for Windows (13 MB)

The Adobe™ Flash™ Ajax Video (FAVideo) component is a small, open source Flash component that you can use to provide video playback within an Ajax application. It exposes all of the formatting and video playback controls necessary to build a video player customized entirely using HTML and Javascript.

* One line instantiation makes it trivial to integrate video playback within an HTML and Javascript interface.
* Simple APIs provide the ability to manipulate video size, position, and scaling prior to or during video playback.
* Video playback parameters such as playback, video seek, cue points, and audio control allow sophisticated programmatic integration with Ajax applications.

Download Flash-Ajax Video Component

Hi Guys,

It finally happend and was much more exciting than expected. We had great Guru’s of Flex there passionate about talking Flex, promoting Flex and keeping their efforts to see a real Web 2.0 world.

We Had Prayank Swaroop (Adobe Evangelist), Abdul Quabiz, Suketu Vyas, Rafique Gilani and yes!! I was there too looking at the shining stars on board discussing some great happenings in Adobe world.

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Preceded by flashing colored lights and a brief video about the business Web, salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff took the stage during a launch on press conference to announce the alliance with Google around AdWord integrations. The only news of the day was Benioff announcing that salesforce.com would adopt Google Gears as the “heart of disconnected operation over time.” (more…)