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JavaFX Preview

Richard Monson-Haefel
July 31, 2008 | | Comments (3)
Richard Monson-Haefel
Sun Microsystems releases a new preview of the JavaFX SDK available to everyone.

Ribbit is Acquired by British Telecom

Andre Charland
July 29, 2008 | | Comments (0)
Andre Charland
Big news for one of the shining lights in the VOIP, Flex and AIR world this morning. Ribbit was acquired by BT. Ribbit has been acquired by BT one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services. This marks the most important day yet in Ribbit’s history. As part of BT will be able to more quickly extend our vision beyond Silicon Valley and bring our products and technology to the entire world. We couldn’t be more excited than to announce this new partnership.

5 Million People watch CS3 tutorials online

RJ Owen
July 28, 2008 | | Comments (2)
RJ Owen
If you bought CS3, you might recall an extra CD of online video tutorials presented in an application called the Adobe Video Workshop. The application was built in Flex with all of the content graciously provided by the good folks at Lynda.com. Adobe reports now through the User Interface Resource Center that the online version of Adobe Video Workshop has facilitated over 5 million training sessions. That's a big number. Even without the disk-based users, that's a wildly successful application.

eBay desktop hits 1 million users

RJ Owen
July 20, 2008 | | Comments (3)
RJ Owen
Late this week it was announced that eBay desktop reached 1 million downloads. Mike Potter from Adobe wrote a great summary of the achievement and it's significanceon his blog. Ryan Stewart also has a great post up, including an interivew with Alan Lewis, the application's project manager from eBay.

MAX Award Submissions

Rich Tretola
July 17, 2008 | | Comments (0)
Rich Tretola
The Sixth Annual MAX Awards will take place at MAX 2008 North America in San Francisco. This customer recognition program highlights some of the most engaging experiences built with Adobe technology over the past year. Don't miss this chance to showcase your work!

Merapi is Live

Adam Flater
July 15, 2008 | | Comments (16)
Adam Flater
Merapi, the framework to enable integration between Java and AIR at the desktop, was released in Alpha on Monday, July 14th.

Flex 4 (Gumbo) Available for Download

Andre Charland
July 14, 2008 | | Comments (15)
Andre Charland
The Flex 4 SDK, code named Gumbo, is up for download now. This is an exciting time for Flex, it's now 2 full versions beyond Flex 2 which was really the first version of Flex that gained mainstream adoption. Adobe is really working hard to get ready for the release of Flash 10 and Thermo.

Inside Iron Man: an interview with visualization supervisor, Kent Seki

RJ Owen
July 14, 2008 | | Comments (0)
RJ Owen
I was privileged to be a part of an interview with Kent Seki last week. Kent was the visualization and HUD effects supervisor for Iron Man, and our conversation with him was one of the most interesting and inspiring I've had for a long time. The full interview along with a few clips of the audio and some other cool stuff is up on the User Interface Resource Center, who arranged and sponsored the interview. In this entry I talk a little about the lessons we can learn from the movie as interface designers and developers, and a little more about why the interview was so inspiring to me.

37signals stops support IE 6 (and me)

RJ Owen
July 10, 2008 | | Comments (22)
RJ Owen
37signals, producers of the popular Basecamp, Highrise and Backpack applications, have announced their intention to "phase out" support for IE 6 on August 15th of this year. Unfortunately this means they're going to lose a lot of their business also, as the rest of us can't stop supporting our IE 6 customers. In this entry we'll talk about why and discuss the future of 37signals products in the software development world.

Ely Greenfield on Flex 4

RJ Owen
July 4, 2008 | | Comments (3)
RJ Owen
In this entry, we discuss the Flex 4 Roadmap based on a presentation by Ely Greenfield currently up on Adobe TV.



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