Adobe Debuts Flash Catalyst at MAX

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 Released

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 [...]

IntelliJ IDEA, an alternative to Flex Builder

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 [...]

MAX Joins Big League!

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 Next Week

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 Starts This Sunday

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 [...]

Flex Camp Boston

Flex Camp Boston, a day long event on all things Flex is scheduled for December 12, 2008. The agenda is as follows:

Time
Session and Speaker

8:00-8:30 am
Registration

8:30-9:30 am
Welcome and Keynote (Flex 4 Preview)
Brian Rinaldi, Universal Mind
Tim Buntel, Adobe

9:30-10:20 am
Unit Testing Flex Applications with Fluint
Jeff Tapper, Digital Primates

10:20-10:40 am
Break

10:40-11:30 am
Liberate your Data with AIR, BlazeDS and LCDS
Christophe Coenraets, [...]

Delicious Turns 5!

Delicious, which started in 2003 turned 5 today. With 5.3 million users and a 180 million unique URLs saved it seems pretty big for its age. Happy Birthday Delicious! Thanks for starting the good task of tagging our world wide web. (Read the delicious blog).

Adobe XD Publication Inspire Relaunched

The Adobe Experience Design publication Inspire is relaunched. Chris Heimbuch, XD Practice Lead, and Ty Lettau, XD Design Manager, discuss the whys and wherefores of Inspire. (The discussion on whys and wherefores of Inspire is a video)

Jerry Yang at Web 2.0

Jerry Yang speaks about Microsoft’s interest in Yahoo, the change he brought about after coming back in 2007, the fall-out of the Google-Yahoo deal and the importance of Yahoo as a platform at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. TechCrunch reports the conversations of Jerry Yang with the Web 2.0 Conference Co-Organizer John Battelle.