Online, Flex-Powered Express Version of Photoshop Available!

Posted At : March 27, 2008 8:04 AM | Posted By : Brian
Related Categories: Flex, RIAs
Saw the news about this on some of the blog feeds this morning:

https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html

I only had time to take the test drive (no sign-up required) and briefly mess with one of the stock image, but still...Wow.

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New YouTube API= Flex Apps To Manage YouTube Videos?

Posted At : March 12, 2008 12:52 PM | Posted By : Brian
Related Categories: Web development, RIAs, Flex
YouTube announced the release of a new set of APIs today that (from what I've read so far) allow you to use YouTube as a web service. You can use API calls to log into YouTube, upload videos, list videos, edit the metadata about videos, and more.

Flex is obviously well-positioned to make use of these new APIs, given that the videos themselves are done in Flash. I wonder what apps will come out of this new development?

Here's the link to the main YouTube API page:

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/overview.html

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Adobe Open Source Website

Posted At : February 25, 2008 7:54 AM | Posted By : Brian
Related Categories: Flex, Miscellaneous, Web development
This may get missed in the news about the release of AIR and Flex, but apparently Adobe released a new website dedicated to the open source projects they're involved with (Flex, BlazeDS, Tamarin, etc.):

Adobe Open Source

...Fortunately it didn't escape Nick Tong's attention (I read about it on his blog). Good catch, Nick.

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AIR 1.0 and Flex 3.0 Are Out!

Posted At : February 25, 2008 7:27 AM | Posted By : Brian
Related Categories: AIR, Flex
Check out the pages on the Adobe site:

http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/

http://www.adobe.com/products/air/

...I'm a little disappointed that AIR still isn't quite ready for Linux, because it's not truly cross-platform until it is, but I know they're beta-testing it with Linux users so hopefully it won't be much longer.

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Another Java Developer Sees Potential in Flex and Apollo

Posted At : April 6, 2007 4:57 PM | Posted By : Brian
Related Categories: Apollo, Flex
Ed Burnette, a blogger for ZDNet, posted his thoughts about how Flex and Apollo may compete against Java:

Is Flash better than Java?

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Choosing Flex Over Java for Developing Rich Internet Applications

Posted At : January 31, 2007 12:56 PM | Posted By : Brian
Related Categories: Flex
Ben Forta posted a link to this article on his blog. It's written by a Java developer who has decided that Java is no longer a good option for writing RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) and that Flex is the way to go. He explains his reasons in detail in his blog post:

Hybridizing Hybridizing Java

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Flex Earns InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award in Application Development

Posted At : January 4, 2007 7:59 AM | Posted By : Brian
Related Categories: Flex
Ryan Stewart found the InfoWorld page and posted it on his blog. It's a nice bit of recognition for Flex. Even though I haven't personally done anything with Flex other than dabble a bit, I think Flex and the upcoming Apollo will have quite an impact on web development this year.

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