Adobe Refresh

The LiveCycle Collaboration Service (nee Cocomo) team have been hard at work and have just announced their latest set of capabilities including screensharing, record & playback and a new javascript sdk. If you are new to LCCS, its a great service that is part of the LiveCycle family and allows Flash, Flex and now HTML [...]

Acrobat 9 introduced the concept of PDF Portfolios, branded Flash based containers that allow the user to navigate through the files / content contained within the PDF. The portfolio is defined by a navigator, and these navigators are built using Flex. Adobe is running a competition where you could win great prizes by using your Flex skills [...]

For quite a few months now Adobe has been talking up Flash Builder, Flex 4 & ColdFusion Builder, but with the caveat that these tools were in beta.  Each of the betas made available via Adobe Labs added new features and allowed you to test and provide feedback to the product teams. Today, however, Adobe [...]

Over at The Question Room (or @thequestionroom) the banditos received a bunch of tweet questions about a problem @gertjansmits was having when loading a Flex application with a SWFLoader and casting it to an interface. They’ve called on my help to get the answer Download the application FXP (Flash Builder 4 project) or Run the [...]

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This year at Adobe MAX I’m presenting on “Experiences Across Multiple Screens”. But just what is that exactly? Experiences Across Multiple Screens Wednesday October 7 at 09:30AM Learn how the Adobe Flash Platform enables multiscreen delivery of applications, from the biggest screen to the smallest device. In this session, you’ll find out how to leverage [...]

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Slides / Demos / Special effects whiz-bangery / Where to learn more Pixel Bender is so hot right now (having a Zoolander moment) and was a late addition to the WebDU agenda due to demand and interest from WebDU conference delegates. Geoff aptly titled the session “Mixing it up in the Pixel Bender”, but Pixel [...]

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David Harris from the Auckland ColdFusion User Group has organised a User Group meeting that coincides with my visit to Auckland this week. This means I’ll be able to show off some of the new Adobe tools!
The meeting is being held at the Auckland Media Design School and I’ll be first showing the new Flash [...]

The engineers at Adobe have been working hard and hot on the heals of the Flash Catalyst & Flash Builder 4 public betas comes another release for you to have a look at and provide feedback on.
LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta (LCDS3) is the next major release of the server based product that allows for [...]

Since Adobe Flash Catalyst was officially announced at Adobe MAX 2008 I’ve kept a list of my favorite blog posts, videos, screencasts and links to downloads and tutorials. Hopefully these resources will help in getting you started. For the developers, you’ll find some interesting reads on FXG and why we have gone down this path, [...]

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Today on labs.adobe.com, Adobe made available preview releases of the next version of two  tools in the Adobe Flash Platform. Of these two tools, one is an upgrade from a previous version (Flash Builder), and another is a completely new tool (Flash Catalyst).
Flash Catalyst is an incredible new tool from Adobe that aims to bridge [...]