Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Free Group SMS in India by Google

http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels

You can create a channel and then everyone will get the SMS

Free Adobe® Flex™ Builder 3 Pro for Education.

Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro is available for free to all education customers. This includes all students, faculty and staff of eligible education institutions.

https://freeriatools.adobe.com/flex/

Adobe Certified Flex 3 Developer Exam

Yahoo, good news for everyone who were waiting for the new certification in Flex 3 or AIR (9A0-082).

Few days ago Adobe released the ACE certification exam for Flex 3 and AIR (Single one includes both) . Visit certified community at Adobe.com for details.

The price of the exam is US$ 150 as usual and right now is only available as Certification exam and just in Pearson VUE .
Here is the link to the Adobe Flex 3 and AIR ACE Preparation Guide

Monday, November 17, 2008

Flash Platform: Flex,AIR,Flash and Web Technologies under one roof

Adobe MAX update, as we can feel the huge presence of Flash player across all platforms and devices. We can easily say, Flash is now a platform. and to make this trend more strong in future Adobe has planned to put all Flash related technologies under one umbrella FLASH PLATFORM. As per Adobe, Flash Platform is an integrated set of technologies surrounded by an established ecosystem of support programs, business partners, and enthusiastic user communities.
According to TechCrunch, “Realizing that Flash is a better name than Flex for a platform, Adobe is now referring to everything it does related to Flash (including the Flash Player, Adobe AIR, Flex developer tools, and Flash media servers) as the Flash Platform. That’s what I’ve been calling it anyway, so I’m glad they finally caught up.”
See what all included in FLASH PLATFORM & Web Technologies.

Free Adobe AIR Book for HTML/JavaScript Developers (by Adobe)

http://onair.adobe.com/files/AIRforJSDevPocketGuide.pdf?sdid=CEYFA
This is a good book for those coming in from JavaScript/HTML and moving to AIR.
You don't have to use Flash to build Adobe AIR applications. You can build full-featured applications using just HTML and JavaScript. This usually surprises some developers who expect Adobe AIR to focus only on Flash.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Adobe FLEX/AIR online video training

It's been placed in to two parts, as what I have found:

Part A - http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/teach/ria.html?Tabs=course - Online Workshop Modules tab, 3rd tab inside the page

Part B - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/ - where course has been divided in to 5 days (showing small clips) for each days, with proper exercise and their solution too on each regular video training session. (If you won't be able to solve exercise:) )

You can now download and watch Flex in a Week videos in an offline mode.
Here are the instructions.
i) Install AMP

ii) Click “My Favorites” menu at the top.
iii) Click “Add RSS Feed” at the bottom.
iv) Paste http://sessions.adobe.com/FlexInAWeek/feed.xml
YAHOOOOOOOO... What else you need?