Adobe Flex in a Week!!

The adoption of Flex is going strong, and Adobe is doing everything in their power to make sure the wave doesn’t die off. That is why they have created “Flex in a Week“. Flex in a Week is allowing developers to learn Flex online through online video tutorials over a span of a week. If you are a budding developer it is worth your while to check it out!

Flex is taking it’s time to take off. I think though in the next 12 months when Gumbo (Flex 4) comes out, it won’t take off… It will sky rocket at the speed of light to light years and beyond. After all Gumbo will help designers to step in to develop user interfaces and leave it up to the developers to develop.

There are some great resouces out there, and this “Flex in a week” looks like it’s another one. Jump into the deep end and try it out. Who knows the water might be warm!

July 29, 2008
Tags: Adobe, Flex

Flex 4 available for download!

That’s right Flex 4 (Gumbo) is available for download. Of course it is only in beta as it wont be realease until 2009. I suggest that you download it anyway if you are a Flex or AIR head so you can get a feel of what the next version will hold.

Ely Greenfield has post a video on what is in Gumbo, you should check it out.

July 15, 2008
Tags: Adobe, Flex, Gumbo

Flex 4.0 - What’s to come!

With Adobe Flex 4.0 to be launch in 2009 makes you wonder what they’re going to have in Flex 4.0 that they don’t have right now.

First off Thermo! Thermo will be new tool for the Flex developer community. It’s going to make it incredibly easy for a designer to design an application so the developer only has to code the actions to the design. It will help separate the development stage from the design. Having a work flow like this makes the end RIA a better performing application, which is also visually stunning. It allows the developer to concentrate on one thing and one thing only, development; vice versa for a designer.

Fig 1.0: Screen shot of the Main interface for Thermo

Improvements will also be made to MXML to make it even easier to develop with. Improvements such as new components, for example new vector primitive graphic tags. These tags will help in developing custom components as you will be able to draw primitive shapes directly through MXML.

Of course there are going to be improvements to the framework so that overall performance will be increased.

I think the 4.0 version will be released around the same time as CS4 as the interoperability will be amazing.

It is still a while off before the actual release of the next version, but this is for sure, Adobe is going to amaze us with the new capabilities and improvements.

July 5, 2008
Tags: Flex, MXML, RIA, Thermo