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“I am loving…” it as it has a great performance and Usability….

So, now getting up to the speed and keep you posted with some new things I am working on which involves VOIP, 3D in flex etc

Today Adobe Announced COCOMO.

From labs.adobe.com

“Codename “Cocomo” is a Platform as a Service that allows Flex developers to easily add real-time social capabilities into their RIA (rich Internet applications). Comprised of both Flex-based client components and a hosted services infrastructure, Cocomo allows you to build real-time, multi-user applications with Flex in less time than ever before. And because Acrobat.com hosts the service, issues like deployment, maintenance, and scalability are taken care of for you.

Add social features to your existing Flex apps or build totally new ones, such as real-time productivity/collaboration apps, multiplayer games, and audio/video chat.”

Real-time social features that can be added to Web applications include:

* Robust Data Messaging
* VoIP Audio
* Webcam Video
* Real-Time File Sharing
* Text Chat
* Contextual Presence

This is very exciting. This will open up new possibilities for Flash Platform to create Real Time social applications which will enable to communicate efficiently and easily.

Links:

Cocomo @ Adobe Labs : http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cocomo/

I can’t talk more Experience new flex.org

• Go through Adobe® Flex(tm) 2 DeveloperExam Guide to get the overall idea of exam.
• Refer Flex 2 Developer’s Guide This will help you to cover all areas of flex.
• Refer Programming ActionScript 3 for High Level reference of ActionScript 3.0

This is just a reference material but you experience will count.

Exam questions are come from four areas mentioned in Developer Exam guide.

1. Flex Application User Interface (UI) Creation
   IF you have played with most of UIcomponent of Flex you can easily answer the questions. But questions will not be straight forward it will be well twisted so it requires good attention while reading question.
2. Flex System Architecture and Design
   You should have really good knowledge of flex component architecture and must know how to created loosely coupled component. You should also know basic UML diagram techniques like Inheritance, Implementing interface etc.
3. Flex Application Programming Fundamentals
   You need to have knowledge of OOPS programming and Core AS3 programming like String, Array etc.
4. Integrating with Remote Data and Flex Applications
   If you have worked extensively with flex but haven’t played much with data integration with flex then this will be very difficult area for you. You have for prepare and practice well to understand RPC services features for flex and have good understanding of LCDS

Reading is fine for certification but after all “Experience Matters”

Following are currently work in progress milestones.

Scope determined: April 2008
Beta 1: Late 2008
4.0 Final: 2009

You can follow Flex 4 SDK page for more feature announcements.

I can say only 1 thing about 360|Flex Atlanta “It Rocks”.

I have attended many interesting sessions

• Axel Jensen – Understanding the component LifeCycle
• Ben Clinkinbeard – Creating Polished Custom Components
• Christophe Coenraets – The Future of Data Services
• Andrew Powell – Building Java Powered Flex Applications.
• Jun Heider – Memory management and optimization
• Flex 4: What’s cooking  Deepa Subramaniam

I have delivered session on “Creating cool frontend Apps: using Flex and JavaScript” which went very well. I have demoed my experimental application “svWord” online word processor using Flex and Javascript (using Zoho Api). svWord will be online soon…

Overall it was great learning experience.

I will be speaking on
Creating cool front-end Apps using Flex and JavaScript
If you are around catch me say “hi”..