::Adobe Family Blog::: 12/22/07

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source

ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns

William Sanders, Chandima Cumaranatunge, "ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Object Oriented Programming Techniques"
Adobe Dev Library | ISBN-10: 0596528469 | July 16, 2007 | 530 pages | PDF | 3.1MB

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Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team (Author)
Publisher: Adobe Press; 1 edition (April 27, 2007) | ISBN-10: 0321499824 | PDF | 40,8 Mb | 352 pages

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Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers

How to Cheat in Flash CS3: The art of design and animation in Adobe Flash CS3

Chris Georgenes, "How to Cheat in Flash CS3: The art of design and animation in Adobe Flash CS3"
Focal Press | ISBN 0240520580 | August 6, 2007 | 280 Pages | PDF | 40MB

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Professional Adobe Flex 2 Ebook (Free)

Programming Flex 2 Ebook (Free)

myFeedz

myFeedz is a web application that finds what is important from the sea of information on the Internet and shows you what you need to read. It learns from your reading habits, and helps you keep up with your interests, by offering personalized content.

myFeedz is designed to:

Help you keep track with the latest news and trends on the Internet.
Offer you articles relevant to your interests.
Reduce the information overload.

With myFeedz, you can:

Browse articles by topics (tags), sorted by relevance or by date.
Find out the popular stories of the moment.
Read, rate and tag articles.
Save articles for later reading.
Search new topics and articles.
Export RSS feeds for your topics of interest.

myFeedz is not:

An online RSS reader, although news are tracked via RSS feeds.
A search engine, although you can search articles by specific tags.
A bookmarking service, although you can submit feeds of your favorite websites or save articles for later reading.

myFeedz is being released free of charge as a technology preview to give you the chance to take it for a test spin. You need to sign up for an account, in order to be able to use it to its full potential (your Adobe Labs ID will not work).

BlazeDS

Welcome to the BlazeDS beta release on Adobe Labs. BlazeDS is the server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology that enables developers to easily connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real-time to Adobe® Flex™ and Adobe AIR™ applications for more responsive rich Internet application (RIA) experiences.

The evolution to more engaging RIAs has created the need for better data connectivity options. Remoting simplifies the reuse of existing server logic automatically marshalling calls between the Flash client and the Java methods on the server. In addition, the use of a AMF binary data transfer format increases performance, allowing applications to load data up to 10 times faster than with text-based formats such as XML or SOAP.

Previously available only as part of Adobe LiveCycle® Data Services ES, Adobe is announcing its plans to contribute the proven BlazeDS technologies to the community under the LGPL v3. BlazeDS gives the rapidly growing Adobe developer community free access to the powerful remoting and messaging technologies developed by Adobe.

Concurrent with this prerelease of BlazeDS, Adobe is publishing the AMF binary data protocol specification, on which the BlazeDS remoting implementation is based, and is committed to partnering with the community to make this protocol available for every major server platform. The source code will be available for download early 2008. Please read the FAQ for further details on BlazeDS and Adobe’s open source plans.

Flash Player 9 Update

Update: Release versions of Flash Player 9 Update for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux are now available from the Flash Player Download Center on Adobe.com. The Flash Player 9 Update for Solaris is now available. Get it now.

Adobe® Flash® Player is the high-performance, lightweight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones, and devices.

Adobe Labs features prerelease versions of the Flash Player 9 Update software for Solaris platforms. The prerelease is an opportunity for developers and consumers to test and provide early feedback to Adobe on new features, enhancements, and compatibility with previously authored content.

This update, codenamed “Moviestar,” includes new features, enhancements and bug fixes for Solaris versions of Flash Player 9, including:

Support for H.264 video and HE-AAC audio codecs.
Multi-core support for vector rendering.
Full screen mode with hardware scaling (currently not available on Sparc).
Flash Player cache for common platform components, such as the Flex framework.

See the release notes for more information regarding this prerelease technology.

Please help us ensure that this release will be of the highest quality by installing and using this player. To learn more about the features of Flash Player 9, read Introducing Flash Player 9 within the Developer Center. You can learn more about the features and enhancements of the Flash Player 9 Update beta in the Product Details section below, and the FAQ on the wiki.

Adobe Media Player prerelease 2

Adobe® Media Player lets you watch your favorite shows, anytime, anywhere—while enabling new ways for content businesses to create, deliver, and monetize high-quality content and advertising through a customizable cross-platform player that supports both downloaded and streamed media.

Adobe is driving a fusion of TV and the Internet with Adobe Media Player, Flash® Media Server, content protection technologies, and a broad and powerful ecosystem of partners providing key solutions from content creation through delivery and monetization.

Adobe Media Player gives the user complete control and flexibility to view what they want, when they want—online and offline.

Catalog—Discover new shows and video podcasts to add to your Favorite Shows.
My Favorites—Automatically download new episodes of your favorite shows and video podcasts.
New Episodes—Quickly manage and play a list of new episodes from your favorite shows and video podcasts.
Personal Videos—Gather and manage your personal collection of Flash videos.
FLV on your Desktop—Stream, download, manage, and play rich media content. Double click on any FLV file to play it in Adobe Media Player.

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From BPM to ERP, Adobe LiveCycle bridges apps across the board

Flash and PDF combine with J2EE server to streamline IT development and reduce support costs

By Mike Heck
November 1, 2007

In this detailed product review by InfoWorld Test Center, contributing editor Mike Heck uses Adobe® LiveCycle® Workbench ES software to build two applications:

A mortgage application similar to what financial institutions might use to initiate and manage loans
A Form Guide to help users step through an application process with an intuitive, Adobe Flash® based interface

"Both tests resulted in applications that were easy to deploy and administer with intuitive user interfaces. Moreover, there were no development pain points as I created forms and then inserted the business logic to secure and route them, output to PDF and Flash, and performed related tasks, including e-mail notifications."

He also tests LiveCycle Workspace ES, the rich Internet application (RIA) that serves as a portal for users to interact with forms and processes.

To learn more about the outcome of these tests and how LiveCycle ES performed, download the full review.

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