Late last night adobe released several new betas on the labs.adobe.com site, including:
• 64 bit Flash Player (Code Named “Square”)
• Flex 4.5 SDK (Code Named “Hero”)
• Flash Builder Next (Code Named “Burrito”)
• Flash Catalyst Next (Coe Named “Panini”)
Square is obviously very interesting, as more and more end users now have 64 bit machines, it is great that the flash player will now be able to leverage the full power of the underlying operating system. It seems that 64 bit players are now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Hero is another great release, with Adobe continuing to move the flex sdk forward. In this release, many of the components which were not migrated to the spark architecture in the 4.0 release have now been completed, including the DataGrid, Form, and Image components. Even more interesting is the rework done to make to make Flex applications run well on mobile devices. Having done a few AIR for Android applications using AS3 without the flex framework, I look forward the increased productivity I can realize by leveraging flex on these devices as well.
Burrito and Panini are both improved tools to allow developers and designers increased productivity with the new SDK. In addition to supporting the latest SDK, Burrito also includes a workflow to ease development of mobile applications, a series of coding improvements, such as the introduction of templates, metadata code hinting and more.
All told, these new releases promise to push the flash platform forward, and increase the world of possibilities for those of us who develop for the platform.
At 360|Flex DC yesterday, I presented my “Whats under your skin” presentation, all about architecting components with skins and layouts. I had a great audience, who was very engaged and asked lots of pertinent questions.
For anyone interested, here are the slides. The code for the ShoppingList component can be found below from the download link. The code for the Clocks are proprietary, and can not be shared. Sorry. Download
Posted At: February 26, 2010 2:02 PM | Posted By: Jeff Tapper Related Categories: flash, flashplayer, flex, flex3, flex4
Today, I presented my Flex 4 for Flex 3 developers presentation at FlashCamp Chicago. For those that wanted the slide deck, you can find it here.
In this, I discuss a number of differences between flex 3 and flex 4, and what an existing Flex 3 developer will need to know to start being productive in Flex 4.
Down to the last 5 (Cheap) tickets left for 360|Flex. Register now, save $100 and get the same awesome content for a little less coin. Act fast, these last tickets won’t last. When they’re gone, the regular price of $599 kicks in.
Come on out and hear me give advice how not to hurt yourself with code, in my “Ouch, it hurts when i do that” talk.
Posted At: November 2, 2009 6:11 PM | Posted By: Jeff Tapper Related Categories: ColdFusion, flex, flex4, free
I’ll be giving a free
full-day, hands-on training session, where experienced ColdFusion Developers can learn how to build their first Flex application using the latest Flash Builder 4 beta software. This training is designed to help experienced ColdFusion developers get started in understanding how to add rich UI to existing and new ColdFusion applications.
Date / Time
Thursday, November 19
Hyatt Regency Chicago on the River Walk,
151 East Wacker Drive,
Chicago, IL 60601
Registration: 8:30am
I’ll be giving a free
full-day, hands-on training session, where experienced ColdFusion Developers can learn how to build their first Flex application using the latest Flash Builder 4 beta software. This training is designed to help experienced ColdFusion developers get started in understanding how to add rich UI to existing and new ColdFusion applications.
Date / Time
Thursday, November 19
Hyatt Regency Chicago on the River Walk,
151 East Wacker Drive,
Chicago, IL 60601
Registration: 8:30am
