Flex team looking for committers

Posted by on Dec 15, 2011 in Flex | Comments Off

One of the requirements for a proposal to incubate a new project in the Apache Software Foundation (like we are doing for Flex) is to have an initial set of committers.

The Flex SDK team is looking for committers and has just published a blog post with more information.

Let’s talk about Flex

Posted by on Dec 12, 2011 in Flex | 2 comments

Adobe is hosting a Flex Community Summit today and tomorrow where we invited a number of Flex community leaders and enterprise developers to participate in a discussion on a variety of topics. In the next coming hours and days we will be publishing videos and articles on the future of Flex and the discussions held at the Flex Community Summit. I’ll keep this blog post up to date with new videos and publications as they become available. Day 2 of this community summit will be streamed live tomorrow today! Stay tuned for more info on that.

Please note that these are unedited and raw recordingings of the actual summit and that audio levels may vary. More polished versions are coming to Adobe TV later this week.

UPDATE:
LIVE STREAM OF DAY 2: http://my.adobeconnect.com/flexsummit (log in as guest)
LIVE BLOG: http://www.spoon.as/2011/flex-summit-live-updates-day-2/
PODCAST: Nerd Radio interview with Deepa Subramaniam and Andrew Shorten

FROM MONDAY DECEMBER 12th:
VIDEO: Session on Falcon and FalconJS Compilers

VIDEO: Flash Platform changes and demos of future Flex contributors – part three

VIDEO: Flash Platform and Flex update session - part two

VIDEO: Q&A with Danny Winokur (VP at Adobe).

BLOG: The Flex team already posted an update last Friday.

TWITTER: Follow the #FlexSummit hashtag for live updates.

Flash Builder 4.6 & Flex SDK 4.6

Posted by on Dec 7, 2011 in Flash Builder, Flex | 11 comments

Yeah… I know… You probably already know about this and yes… I am a bit late to the party but I promise to return to my normal blogging schedule soon. The last couple of weeks I’ve been mostly occupied with looking for a place to live and when I found it furnishing it and getting everything hooked up and getting all the paperwork done took just about all my time. But back to the topic of this blog post.

Flash Builder 4.6 and Flex SDK 4.6 are available now. The one thing you may have missed is that this is a FREE UPDATE for Flash Builder 4.5 owners! Quick note: The update is not delivered by the update manager so you must download the trial of Flash Builder 4.6 and then you can use your Flash Builder 4.5 serial number to activate. You also must uninstall your previous version of Flash Builder 4.5 or 4.5.1 before installing 4.6.

The biggest new features in the SDK are the new mobile components. For Flash Builder I’d say that the ability of adding native extensions to your AIR apps as well as the ability to compile your apps with captive runtime support are the biggest additions to Flash Builder 4.6. Michael Chaize has a great post describing the new Flex 4.6 components and how to use them. He also talks about the new features in Flash Builder 4.6.

Michael also just released The Game Of Flex. The Game Of Flex is a quiz with 16 questions, and it’s a real game, which means that if you correctly answer all the questions you get a chance to win a copy of Flash Builder 4.6!!!

You should also check out Holly Schinsky’s post on how to use the new MapQuest API in your Flex 4.6 applications. It’s pretty amazing to see how advanced MapQuest has become and how easy it is to implement this in your Flex or Flash applications.

Flash on!