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….
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” 
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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
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.
I am very excited reading this post and wanted to participate. I hope you guys are also preparing yourself to go for this. The one who are not aware about the big news please go ahead and read this …
If you are doing any development work (including skinning and UI design)
with Adobe Flex. Here’s your chance to be a contributor to an Adobe
Developer Library book to be published in 2008, “Flex 3 Cookbook.”
Adobe’s got a terrific site for Flex developers of any stripe to show
their best stuff, and O’Reilly and Adobe are partnering on a book that
will include some of the best contributions from the site. Each
contribution uses the classic O’Reilly cookbook
“Problem/Solution/Explanation” format; if you’ve got strong material to
show the rest of the world, it couldn’t be easier to write up your
material in the online fields, and join the cookbook party. Flex
developers are in very short supply in an exploding market, so here’s
your chance to show your stuff to the rest of the community!
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=homepage&productId=2
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:
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
It looks that the demand for Adobe Flex 2 skills across the world is exponentially increasing. Based on the facts which shows the rates in UK with a comparison to our Application Development category.
Contracts and Contractors Rate for Adobe Flex 2 Developers
The interesting fact is Flex 2 developers demand and rates are increased by 60% while Java rates are still unchanged, at least it shows by the data provided here Contracts and Contractors Rate for Java Developers
The same thing is with .Net as well it has increased its rates by just 4%. Contracts and Contractors Rate for .Net Developers
Last week I met with John Koch, Adobe Relation Manager, Asia Pac and Puneet, Sr. Product Manager (Flex) on a face to face discussion on various aspects of Flex and Adobe technologies. I can say that the way Adobe guys are putting their best to change the techno world, the day is no more longer to come when we will have a true platform for Rich Internet Application development, which will be beneficial for both developer as well as the end user.
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)