If you want to know what's new and ominously pending in the world of Flash and Flex, you owe it to yourself to check out these videos from Adobe Developer Connection, post haste!
They cover such mouth-watering topics as an intro to Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4 and provide a lot of information about Flex 4 as a language (including advanced CSS, skinning, animations and effects). They also describe the road ahead for AIR on the desktop, which frankly is something I'd like to know more about.
Click on the image below to watch the joint keynote by Kevin Lynch, Adobe's chief technical officer and David Wadhwani, the general manager and vice-president of the Flash Platform Business Unit (i.e. two very important dudes):
I personally am very excited to see the current and upcoming innovations in the Flash/Flex platform. Having been a member of the Java community for a long time, I can see some similarities between the promise of the Sun and Adobe web and desktop technologies. As cynical as I can sometimes be about these things, let's hope that where Java largely failed (e.g. Swing-based applets and desktop apps), Flex/Flash will succeed (e.g. Flex/AIR apps for the web and desktop).
As always, I welcome your comments. I'd love to hear what upcoming Adobe Flash/Flex technology you are most looking forward to using. What's most likely to turn out to be vaporware? Can any of this technology live up to the hype?
They cover such mouth-watering topics as an intro to Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4 and provide a lot of information about Flex 4 as a language (including advanced CSS, skinning, animations and effects). They also describe the road ahead for AIR on the desktop, which frankly is something I'd like to know more about.
Click on the image below to watch the joint keynote by Kevin Lynch, Adobe's chief technical officer and David Wadhwani, the general manager and vice-president of the Flash Platform Business Unit (i.e. two very important dudes):
I personally am very excited to see the current and upcoming innovations in the Flash/Flex platform. Having been a member of the Java community for a long time, I can see some similarities between the promise of the Sun and Adobe web and desktop technologies. As cynical as I can sometimes be about these things, let's hope that where Java largely failed (e.g. Swing-based applets and desktop apps), Flex/Flash will succeed (e.g. Flex/AIR apps for the web and desktop).
As always, I welcome your comments. I'd love to hear what upcoming Adobe Flash/Flex technology you are most looking forward to using. What's most likely to turn out to be vaporware? Can any of this technology live up to the hype?
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