Flash Magazine

Singularity begins

Jens C Brynildsen — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:52:00 +0100

Yesterday the site for the worlds first large scale online web conference went live and ticket sales were opened. For three full days in October, up to 10.000 web professionals will meet at a virtual conference backed by physical conference hubs across the world for a one of a kind event.

Flex 4 SDK available

Jens C Brynildsen — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:53:00 +0100

Want to be on the bleeding edge and don't mind Alpha versions? On the Adobe OpenSource site Matt Chotin details the plan for the next release of the Flex SDK (code named Gumbo) and you can already start playing with Flex 4 by downloading the public nightly builds.

FlashSwitcher X

Jens C Brynildsen — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:36:00 +0100

Are you using a Mac and toggle between the officially released Flash Player 9 Debugger version and the new Flash Player 10 beta? FlashSwitcher X is a neat utility that you should check out.

Updated Flash Player 10 Beta on Labs

Jens C Brynildsen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:29:00 +0100

Adobe just uploaded an updated version of Flash Player 10 Beta on their Labs site. The new version contains several fixes as well as a new command - the unloadAndStop is a brilliant addition to the API!

SWFs to become fully searchable

Jens C Brynildsen — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100

Today, Adobe announces a new search engine solution, a special Flash Player that runs on the server to provide Search Engines a "real" look at what's inside your Flash and Flex files, including any dynamic data it pulls in. We talked to Justin Everett-Church from Adobe to get to know more.

Mate: Event driven framework for Flex

Sean Moore aka Sean the Flex Guy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:51:01 +0100

This article will introduce you to the Mate framework for Adobe Flex. "Mate" (pronounced "mah-teh") is a tag based framework used to build Flex applications. Mate helps define the architecture of your application. Two important goals of the Mate framework are: simplicity and non-intrusiveness. Using the Mate framework will help you create a loosely coupled application. There is a companion Mate application along with this article available for download that demonstrates how to call a web service and render the services data to the applications view.

RIAJobs.org launched

Jens C Brynildsen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:41:01 +0100

This evening, Peter Elst officially launched a new pet project, a site offering job listings for the entire RIA community. It's free to use and covers not only Flash and Flex, but also other technologies such as AIR, AJAX, Gears, JavaFX, Silverlight as well as Web 2.0 in general.

CS3.3 available

Jens C Brynildsen — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:45:00 +0100

About a month ago, Adobe announced a paid upgrade to Creative Suite 3. Today they announced the immediate availability of Adobe CS 3.3 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, and Master Collection editions. Do you need it? Probably not.

Mike Chambers interview Part 2 - about AIR

Jens C Brynildsen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:40:01 +0100

Mike and Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) goes way back. About 5 years ago, Mike worked on the Macromedia Central project. It was short lived, but the lessons learned went into what is now known as the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). In Stockholm, we talked about the history and future for AIR.

Mike Chambers interview Part 1 - about Mike, Macromedia and Adobe

Jens C Brynildsen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:20:00 +0100

At the OnAIR event in Stockholm, we grabbed the tour host Mike Chambers for an informal chat about him, how he joined Macromedia, the Adobe merger and corporate culture in the two companies. After switching to Adobe, Mike has taken on new roles and titles and we caught up with him at the Munchen-Brewery in Stockholm.