Article Published: Developing with Flex 4, Django, Python, and PyAMF

Recently, Adobe published my article on their ADC site. The article is about Flex 4 and Django. I don't think there are enough Django/Python topics out there, especially for Flex/Flash developers. I hope you guys enjoy the read. If you have any questions please let me know.

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Wunderman.com Launched

Finally, without further to do - I present to you wunderman.com. All content modules were done using Flex 3.0. Used Cairngorm as the architectural framework, Papervision 3.0 for the module flips, and Degrafa for all ui elements. For the "Like it. Take it", we created an entirely seperate video player optimized in pure AS3. I would like to give Jonathan Stasiak a big shout out for helping me out on this enormous project. It took 2 weeks for component and module development, as well as the overall framework. It then took another 2 weeks to add enhancements, fix bugs and do lots of testing. It was interesting to see how two Flex developers could get this type of project done within a 4 week constraint.

Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web

Adobe is teaming up with Google and Yahoo to improve flash search results. They are going to deliver an optimized flash player for the search engine's spider. I look forward to this.

Flash Player 10 Resources

Theres a lot of hype right now over Adobe's Flash Player 10, codename "Astro". After checking out several resources, I have compiled a list of places that have the most recent information on Astro and additions to the API. Their is an unofficial Flash Player 10 Debugger, but I'm not sure if it works or not. I look forward to doing some interesting motion graphics effects with the new filter capabilities and the Drawing API. I wish Adobe had released this a few months ago. I would like to implement the native z into the current Wunderman project.

Adobe Labs:
Featured Demos and Videos
Getting Started
Pixel Bender Toolkit - New image processing language by Adobe
Targeting Flash Player 10 Beta with Flex SDK 3.0x


Others:
1. Senocular - Flash Player 10 Drawing API
2. Peer to peer, Speex and UDP now in Flash Player 10
3...and there's more to Player 10

Introduction to SQLite in Adobe AIR

I'm really posting this for archive purposes. Check out Pete Elst's session on SQLite in Adobe Air. I love it when they record their sessions.

Photoshop Express

After a year in the making, Finally Photoshop has an online tool. I'm so excited to dig and play with this. Photoshop Express was entirely built with Flex - How exciting is that!?

Adobe Developing iPhone Flash Player

It seems promising, Adobe thinks they can develop the flash player for iphone. I'm not sure what they can do with Apple's current sdk, but their seems to be some talk of possibly getting some proprietary code from Apple to help accomplish this. If Apple, does agree to this, we can all be rest assured. Although, if Apple does not give a helping hand, we will be stuck with a iphone native Flash Player app. Let me put it out there, the sdk comes with many limitations. Which will really suck. Read the full article at gizmodo.com

ActinoScript reference for RIA

Adobe, released a reference for rich internet applications. It provides information on the native ActionScript API for all the runtime applications; such as: Flex 3, AIR and the Flash Player. Go, download the pdf and give it a look.