360|Flex Atlanta - February 25-27, 2008 January 28, 2008

This 3-day conference is the place to learn about Flex and AIR from Adobe and community speakers. Sunday before the conference we’ll be offering an all day Flex 101 session, included in the price of registration. That’s right, a pre-conference all day training session on Flex. 360|Flex is the premiere Flex and AIR conference. We were the first Flex conference and we’re still growing and getting better. Don’t miss out, only $480 for an individual or $1500 for a 4-person team. More details can be found at http://360flex.com

360 Flex Conference schadule has been posted. Check it out…

Free Silverlight Training at Lynda.com January 24, 2008

Lynda.com is providing free training video of silverlight . It is 4.5 hrs training conducted by Mike Hash (program manager on the Silverlight team at Microsoft)

Training covers following topics:

1. Understanding Silverlight
2. Discovering Silverlight Experiences
3. Silverlight Tools: Expression and Visual Studio
4. Getting Started with XAML, JavaScript, and HTML
5. Advanced XAML
6. Advanced JavaScript Techniques for Silverlight
7. Asset Preparation for Designers
8. Working with Media in Silverlight
9. Creating a Media Player with Silverlight
10. Creating Programmatic Animations
11. Silverlight Deployment

For more details visit here…

WOW-Engine: AS3 3D Physics Engine January 23, 2008

WOW-Engine (AS3 3D Physics Engine) has been released.

WOW-Engine is a free AS3 open source physics engine written by Seraf ( Jérôme Birembaut ) capable to handle positions in a 3D environment.

WOW-Engine use Sandy library for all the 3D mathematical computations (matrix, 3D vector, plane). The inner architecture of the engine is also inspired by Sandy’s one.

It is good to see that flex 3D coming in good way.

Checkout more details here…

360° Video with PaperVision3D January 22, 2008

Adrien Noterdaem has posted a good experiment on “360° Video with PaperVision3D”. Demo is really cool.

Have a look at the incredible experiment.

WebManiacs 2008 (CF,Flex,AIR) registration is open

The WebManiacs 2008 conference schedule has been finalized and registration is open. Early bird pricing ends Jan 31.

Consisting of a two-day ColdFusion conference (”CFManiacs”) coupled with a three-day Flex conference (FlexManiacs), hosting over 70 speakers and 130 distinct topics (some of which are hands-on), WebManiacs promises to have the most comprehensive coverage of Flex, AIR, and ColdFusion at the lowest price.

Seating is limited, so Register early in order to get into the more popular sessions.

Open Source Flex Development Framework January 19, 2008

Moxie Zhang has posted a nice article in infoq about Open Source Flex development frame works.  In his post Moxie has listed 10 Open source frameworks for Flex Development.

Following are top Open Source Frameworks:

1. Cairngorm
   “The Cairngorm micro architecture is intended as a framework for Enterprise RIA developers. If you are writing a very simple application (such as a prototype application) or an application with only a single view, then you might consider a “Model 1″ solution that doesn’t strive for the same separation of model, view, and control that Cairngorm advocates. The benefits of the Cairngorm architecture are realized when developing complex RIA applications with multiple use-cases and views, with a team of developers, and with a multi-disciplinary development team that includes designers as well as creative and technical developers.“ by Adobe
   Download Cairngorm.
2. PureMVC
   “PureMVC is a lightweight framework for creating applications in ActionScript 3, based upon the classic Model-View-Controller design meta-pattern.This free, open source framework does not depend on any Flash, Flex or Apollo classes, and is therefore suitable for architecting applications on any platform running AS3.” By PureMVC
   Download PureMVC
3. Model-Glue
   “The Model-Glue family of frameworks support Web application developers by making the construction of Object-Oriented Web and Rich Internet Applications a straightforward process.
   Through a simple implementation of Implicit Invocation and Model-View-Controller, they allow applications to be well organized without sacrificing flexibility.” By Model-Glue
   Download Model-Glue
   
4. Foundry
   
5. Guasax Flex Framework
   
6. ARP
   
7. Flest Framework
   
8. EasyMVC
   
9. Adobe FAST
10. Joeberkovitz’s framework 

An architectural blueprint for Flex applications January 18, 2008

Joe Berkovitz has posted nice article on “An architectural blueprint of Flex Applications” on DevNet. He briefed out how to envision the architecture flex application in very simple way.  He has explained MVCS architecture in very good way by taking example of ReviewTube .

If you are new to flex and learn how to start developing flex applications by using MVCS then this article will give you good start.

You can read article here…

Link to ReviewTube

PureMVC Courseware January 17, 2008

PureMVC has opened up the Beta test program for PureMVC Courseware. This is good initiative by PureMVC team to document the PureMVC and help people to adopt the frame work.

You can register for PureMVC Beta testing program here…

In can if you haven’t heard…

What is PureMVC?
PureMVC is a lightweight framework for creating applications in ActionScript 3, based upon the classic Model-View-Controller design meta-pattern.
This free, open source framework does not depend on any Flash, Flex or Apollo classes, and is therefore suitable for architecting applications on any platform running AS3.

Visit PureMVC website.

SUN to acquire MySQL January 16, 2008

Sun Microsystems has announced to acquire Words most popular Open Source Database company mySQL for approx $1 Billion. The acquisition accelerates Sun’s position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market.

Read more about Acquisition…