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April 4, 2007
Nice surprise from the Flex team...
Thought I'd share a warm and fuzzy story with you guys. I got home last night and found an Amazon box sitting on my step. This is a very common scene, but I didn't remember ordering anything that should have been arriving this week. So I open the box and find a gift-wrapped ActionScript 3.0 cookbook which was sent to me by Mike Potter from the Adobe Flex team. I was a tester for Flex 2.0 (as I have been with the last several CF releases including Scorpio) so I figured it was as a thank you for that. I sent Mike an email saying thanks for the book with a "what did I do to deserve this" inquiry. Turns out that they sort of randomly buy Adobe related books off of peoples Amazon wishlists as a way to say thanks for being a customer. Very nice surprise indeed, and a lesson to y'all to put some Adobe books on your wishlists;)
Thanks Adobe!
Thanks Adobe!
June 29, 2006 Flex 2.0 goes gold
Flex 2.0 went gold yesterday. For those that don't know (or maybe don't care), Flex is an application development platform for developing apps for the Flash Player. It exposes the rich functionality of Flash to developers in a "code-centric" way rather than in a traditional Flash designer way.
Flex 2.0 is a big jump from 1.0 and 1.5 releases in several ways. Things like ActionScript 3.0, Flash Player 9 and a thorough scrub of the API's from previous versions. The new Flash Player is supposed to be much faster than previous versions. Another big difference is in delivery method. In previous versions of Flex, applications were deployed as MXML scripts which ran on the application server and were compiled at runtime. In the new version the MXML files are compiled by the IDE (or SDK compiler) and then deployed as SWF files, saving the compilation overhead at runtime.
I've been playing around with the Beta versions all through their development process, which they made available at Adobe Labs. The Labs site has been making products and produces updates available to the developer community much earlier than they had before, which allows us to be a part of the testing and feature selection process. I think that the new openness Adobe is embracing is a great thing for them and the developer community. Adobe also maintains the Flex Developers Center, which is a great resource for getting started.
I'm planning on updating the Flex front-end sample app for Tardis to use Flex 2.0 and the Cairngorm microarchitecture in the near future. 
Flex 2.0 is a big jump from 1.0 and 1.5 releases in several ways. Things like ActionScript 3.0, Flash Player 9 and a thorough scrub of the API's from previous versions. The new Flash Player is supposed to be much faster than previous versions. Another big difference is in delivery method. In previous versions of Flex, applications were deployed as MXML scripts which ran on the application server and were compiled at runtime. In the new version the MXML files are compiled by the IDE (or SDK compiler) and then deployed as SWF files, saving the compilation overhead at runtime.
I've been playing around with the Beta versions all through their development process, which they made available at Adobe Labs. The Labs site has been making products and produces updates available to the developer community much earlier than they had before, which allows us to be a part of the testing and feature selection process. I think that the new openness Adobe is embracing is a great thing for them and the developer community. Adobe also maintains the Flex Developers Center, which is a great resource for getting started.
I'm planning on updating the Flex front-end sample app for Tardis to use Flex 2.0 and the Cairngorm microarchitecture in the near future.
