May 12, 2007
I was at the Adobe Creative Suite 3 launch in Bangalore on Thursday (Yes, it took them so long). I liked the event, there was nothing extraordinary about it but it was nice …. I really liked how they had put an Indian touch to the whole event (music demos and stuff) and did not just present their International campaign, this shows they are really interested.
The Creative Suite 3 of course is just Awesome!! The demos were awe inspiring and well presented (especially the ones by Rajesh Patil) … great job guys! … One interesting thing that I noticed about these products was the intelligent use of some really innovative UI Components/Controls. Adobe has put a lot of thought/research into what the users really want and need and this effort truly deserves appreciation. read more
April 26, 2007
Adobe has announced that it will be open sourcing Flex by making the source code for the Flex SDK available under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). This is very very exciting as it essentially means that everything you need to develop Flex is now Open Source … the source to the ActionScript libraries in the SDK, the Java source code for the ActionScript, MXML compilers (AS3C, MXMLC) and the ActionScript debugger (FDB). Wow!!
I am very exited about this announcement and will post more thoughts on this later, but for now check out these videos that show David Wadhwani (Vice president, Flex Product Line) and Ely Greenfield (Flex Architect) talking to Robert Scoble about this new development.
Also Checkout:
Flex Open Source Press Release
Flex Open Source Labs FAQ
Flex Open Source Discussion List
What have other people been saying ….
Ted Patrick
Ryan Stewart
Ted Leung
Josh Tynjala
James Ward
Andrew Oliver
Mark Anders
Sho Kuwamoto
April 23, 2007
I received my Flex 2 Framework and ActoinScript 3 posters today and as I had heard from a lot of people they are freakin’ huge!! I love them, Thank you Adobe.
I have requested my boss to get me a new office with big walls as I can’t fit these in my cubicle and as these posters are bare essentials for my work, I think he’s considering my request 
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April 18, 2007
In Greek mythology, Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo … In todays world Artemis is a community project to extend and enhance Adobe’s Apollo by connecting it with Java … the idea is to build very rich and interactive User Experiences for desktop Java applications in traditionally Internet based user interface technologies Flex/Flash/AJAX instead of using traditionally desktop UI technologies like Java Swing. read more
April 17, 2007
Silly as I am .. I was playing around with my domain settings and I ended up password protecting FlexBox … it was not accessible to everyone for about 15 minutes. I was not in front of the computer for this little while and when I get back i saw 8 emails from people asking … “What’s wrong with FlexBox?” … I have fixed the problem now and it would be great if someone could confirm that its all ok.
It feels great to know that people are finding FlexBox useful and are using it a lot. read more
