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Free Flex Builder 3 For Unemployed Developers

Apr 4

Posted by Anuj Gakhar in Adobe, Flex Builder | 4 Comments

I just read the announcement on Ben Forta’s blog that Adobe has decided to give away Flex Builder 3 to unemployed developers so they could use their free time to develop a new skill. Well, as much as I wish that no developer ever gets unemployed, given the current economic conditions, I think you cant really help it. I know some pretty darn good developers who are out of work these days. Having said that, even I will be looking for work in the next couple of weeks as my current assignment has only 3 weeks remaining on it.

So, Kudos to Adobe, for having thought of this and giving away free Flex Builder 3.

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Adobe announces Free ColdFusion Curriculum

Mar 19

Posted by Anuj Gakhar in Adobe, ColdFusion | No Comments

I am pleased to see this, really. Adobe has announced free ColdFusion curriculum which can be used by anyone to learn and teach ColdFusion.  The curriculum covers 2 main areas.

Introduction to ColdFusion 8 [PDF]

This course covers the basics of ColdFusion and focuses on best practices and design, while stressing the importance of usability, optimization, and performance.

Advanced ColdFusion 8 Development [PDF]

This course is designed to teach you how to take full advantage of Adobe ColdFusion 8 while building web applications. The course focuses on best practices and design, stressing the importance of usability, code reuse, performance, and scalability.

I think this is a great step forward in promoting CF and getting more and more users into the ColdFusion world.


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Adobe Developer Week

Mar 23

Posted by Anuj Gakhar in Adobe | No Comments

Adobe is running a ‘developer week‘ starting from tomorrow ie 24th March, 2008. There will be sessions throughout the week and a total of 20 different sessions covering AIR, Flex, ColdFusion, Dreamweaver and Flash. There are quite a few interesting topics and the ones that are particulary of interest to me are these ones :-

  1. Introduction to Adobe Blaze DS
  2. Adobe AIR Local Data Storage Options With Emphasis on Using Embedded SQL Databases
  3. Flex and Java – Tying the Knot!
  4. Flex Visual Data & Charting
  5. AIR Native Drag and Drop
  6. ColdFusion Powered Rich Applications for the Internet and Desktop

I am sure all the sessions would be informative but I am registered for the ones above and will do my best to attend these.

Thanks Adobe!

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Adobe releases Flex 3.0 and AIR 1.0

Feb 25

Posted by Anuj Gakhar in AIR, Adobe, Flex | No Comments

I am a bit late in blogging about this as the news is all over the blogospher by now but its Monday morning and I just found this out.

Adobe have released Flex 3.0 and AIR 1.0 . This was a much awaited news as far as I know. The good thing is that they have setup a Adobe Open Source Flex SDK wiki which looks good as well.

And because the SDK is open source, the code can be downloaded via SVN from here.
http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flex/sdk

Thanks to Adobe for all this and I am very excited about working with Flex/AIR and building RIA apps that look and work great at the same time.

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Adobe Flex and AIR Pre-Release Tour comes to London

Jan 10

Posted by Anuj Gakhar in Adobe, Flex | No Comments

As the subject says, January 24th is the date for this event. Although getting to London takes me not more than 30 mins and my schedule for 24th is not very busy as well, so, unless any unforeseen problems, I am going to attend this event.

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Adobe.com new look

Dec 7

Posted by Anuj Gakhar in Adobe | 4 Comments

Does anyone like the new adobe.com ? I think its very heavy on Flash and my first impression was to just browse away to some other page….the flash just has too much going on in it…

Whats more disappointing is that Coldfusion is not on the homepage and not even in the “see all products page” link from homepage. Is it just me ?

The old site was better? Anyone ?

Flex Builder2 free for Students!

Oct 29

Posted by Anuj Gakhar in Adobe, Flex Builder | No Comments

Just read the announcement that Flex Builder 2 would be free for students and faculty.

However, not sure if this is free for students and faculties from outside US as well. Would be quite handy if it is, its a big step forward in promoting Flex.

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Adobe Developer Connection

Oct 24

Posted by Anuj Gakhar in Adobe, General | No Comments

Adobe Developer Connection (ADC): It’s a new name and it signifies the next generation of what you’ve known as the Developer Center. With a new look and new ways to find information – you must check out the new ADC: http://developer.adobe.com

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