CS4 the latest version of the Adobe Create Suite introduces many new features. Ars Technica reviews the Adobe Illustrator CS4 doing a pretty good job of going into some details with examples. The tone of the review is very positive and its apprent from the very first heading — “Polishing a jewel”.
The major new improvements [...]
Aaron Newton announced the availability of Request.Queue to queue up multiple requests (The Request class lets you handle more than one request but this plugin comes in handy when you have multiple instances of the Request class or its subclasses) and have them run one, two or three (depends on how many you want) at [...]
Pimento Data Services integrates JPA/Hibernate with Flex/Flash. The first release candidate is available for download at http://www.spicefactory.org/pimento/download.php.
As per the announcement by Jens Halm (Spicefactory) on osflash.org, Pimento Data Services offers management for persistent entities for Flex and Flash Clients with the following features:
Automatic import of JPA/Hibernate configuration
AS3 EntityManager remote service based on Cinnamon and the binary AMF3 [...]
Adobe launched a social networking site for its user group members. The new service makes it easier for you to find a user group in your area; join one if there is one out there or start one if there isn’t one out there and get connected with the community. There are over 400 user [...]
A preview version of Flash Catalyst, earlier codenamed as project Thermo, is finally available. Sitepoint blogger Josh Catone has a good write-up: Adobe Debuts Flash Catalyst At MAX Conference, that introduces the tool. If you want to learn more about Flash Catalyst look up the site on the tool on Adobe Labs.
Adobe AIR 1.5 is now available. Some of the new features are as follow:
Includes Flash Player 10 — AIR 1.5 now includes the new and powerful version of the Flash Player. Therefore, you can do all the good things like custom filters, blend modes, and fills with Adobe Pixel Bender, include the new 3D effects [...]
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 8 was released a few days back. In this recent addition the hugely popular and well respected IDE adds support for Adobe Flex development. So now you have an alternative to Flex Builder!
If you are a Java and Flex developer and already use IDEA, you don’t have to get another IDE to [...]
Adobe MAX 2008 crosses 5000 registrations, thereby joining the big conferences league. A large part of this new enthusiasm is testimony to the success of Adobe’s newer RIA offerings. Congratulations Adobe!
QCon San Francisco 2008 starts with a set of tutorials on November 17th and moves on to the conference on November 19th. Details can be obtained from the QCon 2008 San Francisco Website. The venue is The Westin San Francisco Market Street.
Adobe MAX North America starts this Sunday (November 16, 2008). The venue is Moscone Center, San Francisco. Details on the schedule, speakers, exhibits and more can be found at the Adobe MAX 2008/2009 website. It appears, MAX registration may have hit its largest ever number (Check out Ted Patrick’s today’s blog post: MAX NA Registration [...]
Discover the possibilities of the new drawing APIs added in Flash Player 10. Learn how to make use of the new vector type to streamline path data and utilize new triangle APIs for creating 3D graphics. Leran to store drawing commands and data inside reusable data objects.
