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Topic: Flex

The Next Generation of Software Starts Today

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe® AIR™ and Adobe® Flex® 3 software, furthering the Adobe technology platform for rich Internet applications (RIAs). Developers and designers use Adobe RIA technologies to rapidly create and deploy rich, branded content and applications. The release of Adobe AIR signals the next wave of Adobe RIA innovation by bridging the real-time, dynamic capabilities of the Web with the computing power and data capabilities of the desktop.

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onAIR European Tour

he onAIR tour is getting ready to roll out soon. This time it's a multi-country extravaganza through Europe. If you are currently building Flex/AJAX based applications in Europe, you really should step out for this event.

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Is Adobe Flex Really Accessible? You bet your robot voice it is!

Speaking as developer whose built large scale .gov websites and applications that met the US government's eGov and section 508 standards, building accessible applications for the flash player is a heck of a lot easier that building for the browser. Of course, there isn't anything inherent to Flex that just auto-magically makes you applications more accessible just because they are in the Flash player. It's still up to us as developers to code our applications in a responsible manner that inter operates well with the existing tools like JAWS (the leading screen reading software). However, there are some things about Flex that make our lives a lot easier. When asked about Flex accessibility (which comes up quite frequently) it's almost a joke to point out that it's as easy as 'accessible = true'.

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I Lvl'd Up: CF Specialist --> Adobe Evangelist

I know what you're thinking... "Isn't this the same guy who nearly got beat-up for talking smack about Apple and is constantly making fun of PHP/Ruby fanboys?". Guilty as charged. I know I'm not what most people expect from an Evangelist (I actually like Vista, I'm focused on sales and I <3 ColdFusion). However, I think that's exactly why I'm very good at this job and hopefully I can change perceptions about Evangelism and about ColdFusion.

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FlexCamp DC Keynote Speaker Announced

If you are local to the DC area and what to get an introduction to Flex 3 and AIR you should plan to attend the FlexCamp DC event on February 13th in downtown Washington, DC.

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