Space of Flex/AIR technologies

Build your Flash Lite application and win up to $30k. It was lunched on February 16th. If you are Flash Lite developer or you would like to learn this great mobile technology you should defently check Flash Lite Challenge website.

I wasn’t even aware that we have Search Engine Optimization Technology Center with Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/go/seo/

There a three new featured articles available there:

• Search optimization checklist for RIAs
• Adobe Flash Player version checking protocol
• Search optimization techniques for RIA

I will have to go through these in a spare time and revise my experiance…

Today I was looking for some info on regular expressions support in Flex. I found really cool Flex app (Flex 3 Regular Expression Explorer) that lets you test your regular expressions and share some usefull once with the community… It was created by Ryan Swanson, really great job!!!

The AIR Marketplace is being re-launched today with several key new features to deliver a more user friendly destination for showcasing and downloading AIR applications. New features include:

• Easily search and download of applications. Users can rate, review, comment and flag an application to provide valuable feedback. They can share applications with colleagues and friends, and also subscribe to RSS feeds from the Marketplace.

• A self-service web interface enables developers to manage their profiles and applications. Developers can also view download statistics, ratings and reviews through a new application dashboard

• If developers want to sell their application, they can submit the app to the Marketplace. In this case the Marketplace will not enable e-commerce transactions, but the users will be taken to the developers website to conduct the transaction.

If you are looking to promote and host your AIR this the place to go: http://airmarketplace.adobe.com/

For those of you that didn’t see this info yet AIR has passed 100 million installs, hurray long live AIR This is really amazing number also combining this with great adoption of FP 10 with 55% coverage on computers worldwide!!!

For more info you go here: http://blogs.adobe.com/air/2009/01/air_passes_100_million_install.html

This is extremely cool I finally found it Actually I was thinking about writing it myself. What is it? Not a big thing but as I’m coming from Java world I almost couldn’t live without it, Ctrl+Shift+F/pretty print/flex formatting plugin for Flex Builder. It’s open source and it really works great. You can grab it here.

It has quite a bit of configuration options and for sure everyone can find his style…

To use it you will find to buttons (as below) after installing it in plugins folder but you can assign Ctrl+Shift+F shortcut to run it as well.

NVIDIA is sponsoring Pixel Bender contest, any one willing to share his work done with Pixel Bender should participate. You can win an Alieware Area-51 PC or an NVIDIA graphics card!

For more info check this out: http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_pixelbender_contest.html

Greg Wilson posted very interesting bits about Tour de Flex. Tour de Flex Rocks! I love it especially when presenting Flex capabilities…

http://gregsramblings.com/2009/01/14/tour-de-flex-whats-coming-in-version-11-and-12/

LiveCycle ES infrustructure was just released through AWS. It is hosted on top of JBoss JEE stack and it allows developers quickly getting their hands on it. You can find more info on ReadWriteWeb and realwire.com…

Stratus an RTMFP protocol hosting service by Adobe was just released. Any of you that couldn’t wait to give it a try since FP10 release you can do it now!!! Just go and signup for a beta developer key and have fun building FP-to-FP apps. You can find a lof of information about RTMFP here.

I expect that this technology will bring a lot of creative ideas, games, voip, im and chats to the market…