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Here is an another list for Adobe Flex lovers,

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Create engaging, cross-platform rich Internet applications

Rich Internet Applications produce eye-popping results because they stand tall against the swarm of ordinary Internet applications.

Adobe’s innovative tools like Flex, Adobe AIR™ and Flash and more enable you to combine rich motion, video, imaging, and sound creating the rich experience. And that’s not all; Adobe makes sure that your Rich Internet Applications run smoothly on millions of PC’s and Internet devices. The Adobe® Flash® Player runtime reaches 98% of Internet-enabled computers and more than 450 million devices, offering you greater reach than with any other client technology available.

Adobe AIR™, the latest client from Adobe, leverages the power of Flash Player while adding the capability to deploy RIAs directly to the desktop.
Venue: Deccan Rendezvous, Pune | Date: 30th April ‘08 | Time: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm (more…)

First of all thanks for all you guys for all the love and support.

Here I am starting a new section “RIA App of the Week” which will give my reader an insight of a well known RIA product every week. The App may or may be not be developed in Adobe products but its hard to imagine a true RIA without Adobe.

Here I am starting with well known RIA app recently migrated in Adobe Flex, Coghead ver 2.0. Did I forgot to mention Coghead is the “RIA App of the Week” (more…)

Guys I must say that this is an awesome gift for all of us.

Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide Mike Chambers, Rob Dixon, Jeff Swartz explains how to build and deploy Flash-based Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop using Adobe’s Flex framework. This book describes concisely how Apollo works, and offers numerous examples for those who want to start building RIAs for the desktop right away.

Why put RIAs on the desktop? They’re already supposed to offer the responsiveness of desktop programs. Unfortunately, web browsers were designed to deliver and display HTML-based documents, not applications. The conflict between document- and application-focused functionality creates several problems when deploying applications via the browser.

Adobe Apollo gives you the best of both worlds — the web development model and true desktop functionality. This pocket guide explains how to:

• Set up your development environment
• Create your first application
• Use the File I/O API
• Use HTML within Flex-based Apollo applications
• Use the included Apollo mini-cookbook for common tasks

The book also includes a guide to Apollo packages, classes, and command-line tools. Once you understand the basics of building a Flex-based Apollo application, this pocket guide makes an ideal reference for tackling specific problems.

Download PDF version of  Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide

It looks that the demand for Adobe Flex 2 skills across the world is exponentially increasing. Based on the facts which shows the rates in UK with a comparison to our Application Development category.

Contracts and Contractors Rate for Adobe Flex 2 Developers
The interesting fact is  Flex 2 developers demand and rates are increased by 60% while Java rates are still unchanged, at least it shows by the data provided here Contracts and Contractors Rate for Java Developers

The same thing is with .Net as well it has increased its rates by just 4%. Contracts and Contractors Rate for .Net Developers

Last week I met with John Koch, Adobe Relation Manager, Asia Pac and Puneet, Sr. Product Manager (Flex)  on a face to face discussion on various aspects of Flex and Adobe technologies. I can say that the way Adobe guys are putting their best to change the techno world, the day is no more longer to come when we will have a true platform for Rich Internet Application development, which will be beneficial for both developer as well as the end user.

Adobe has released Adobe® Integrated Runtime (AIR) update for Flash® CS3 beta 1 software which will allow developers to package and preview .air application files directly within Adobe Flash CS3; leveraging existing Flash development skills to build desktop-enabled distributed applications and experiences with the Adobe AIR™ framework.

Download the Adobe AIR Installer

Macintosh
Download the Adobe AIR update for Flash CS3 Professional for Macintosh (27 MB)
Windows
Download the Adobe AIR update for Flash CS3 Professional for Windows (13 MB)

Salesforce.com and Adobe announced this week the Flex Toolkit for Apex(SalesForce SaaS app) which allows Flex-driven Flash applications to be integrated into Salesforce apps. is a great news for rich Internet application application developers and now their apps can deliver information through an on-demand enterprise platform.

Third-party Flex applications are packaged-up and served from the Salesforce servers and so no additional infrastructure is needed. The toolkit shares the same single sign-on as the a regular Salesforce app which makes the experience more seamless.

Salesforce also released documentation and guidelines for developers.

Hmmm this seems a great combination as recently salesforce tied up with Google Gears and now with flex to leverage the real essence of Web2.0.

his toolkit also supports the current alpha 1 release of Adobe’s Apollo.

Download the Flex toolkit for Apex

Adobe® has released MXP extension for DreamWeaver for suporting Adobe Integrated Runtime Application development. This extension allows you to desing AIR apps in dreamweaver environment.
The Adobe® Integrated Runtime (AIR) Extension for Dreamweaver® beta 1 will also allows you to package and preview .air application files directly within Adobe Dreamweaver CS3–leveraging your existing web development skills to build desktop-enabled distributed applications and experiences with the Adobe AIR framework.

Download the Adobe AIR Extension for Dreamweaver (MXP, 25 MB)