Today (and following the comment by Fabien), I present below a complete list of books to learn Flex 3 and ActionScript 3 in PDF format available for download.
Note that most of these books are in English, here's the list:
Adobe Systems announced Tuesday that it plans to publish the specifications of the protocol RTMP (Real-Time Messaging Protocol) for transmission of high-quality audio, video or data between Adobe technologies.
RTMP has been developed by Adobe to manage the flow of streaming with Flash Media Server. The specifications would be included in the project-led Adobe Open Screen Project, a project to enable the creation of a Memorandum of display terminals to allow a user experience the same on all screens.
"We are currently opening documentation and specifications as we did for SWF (Flash file format) and PDF (Portable Document Format) to provide market access," said Jennifer Taylor, product manager Adobe Flash.
She added: "The Flex developers and companies that implement the specification will provide stream video, audio or data regardless of the terminal used or where data proviennent.Un example of potential use would be to incorporate different terminals to produce a stream of streaming security camera to databases.
"It is a protocol when the intelligent routing of data, so you can expect it to be used in different contexts," says Taylor.
The specifications are expected to website Adobe Developer Connection in the first half of this year 2009.
Supports RTMP AMF (Action Message Format), SWF, FLV (video) and formats F4V compatible with the Adobe Flash Player.
To be complete, we can add that the RTMP contains no security layer. Developers should therefore use their own measures to secure their contents.
Camille Roux has posted a presentation as part of an HMI (Human Machine Interface) in an engineering school in Nice. The content of this presentation entitled: "When there are rich clients in the Air (Adobe Flex and RIA).
Developers Adobe Flex professionals have so far been frustrated by the lack of unit testing tools for Flex. Although FlexUnit has been developed for some time, developers have to Flex unit test tool worthy of the name ...
Rather than wait for someone (Adobe?) To do so Gorilla Logic has created a system called FlexMonkey open sourced. FlexMonkey allows us to record and read the interactions made with a flex interface, and generates ActionScript tests using scripts that can easily be included in a process of integration. It uses the Flex Automation API and was created by extending automation Adobe graphic AutoQuick. The growing demand for such a tool was that even if the release is out there just 2 months, an active community has already begun this rough around open source project that has been downloaded nearly 1000 times.
For more info on the project FlexMonkey, here is a video presentation by its designers:
Duane Nickull and James Ward has recently completed 3.5 hours of presentation at Adobe MAX. Duane made a video of the course available for download. If you want to learn more about Adobe AIR, it is an excellent starting point. Get out here!
Tour De Flex can be improved by your own components with Greg Wilson, who published the specifications to integrate your components and libraries. It is possible that the Tour De Flex becomes a way to find many examples of code. In many ways, this is a new and consistent resource for learning Flex.
Adobe Technologies Awarded: Adobe won two Codie Awards! The SIAA (Software & Information Industry Association), the principal trade association for the software industry and digital content, recently announced the names of the winners of the 2008 Codie Awards - and Adobe has been awarded two trophies ! Acrobat Connect ™ Pro has been elected Best collaboration solution, surpassing Citrix GoToMeeting and other competitors, while ColdFusion ® 8 has been designated Best solution for web services and preferred to finalists such as Salesforce.com. The Codie Awards are unique; awarded by market professionals, they are an opportunity for businesses to attract the praise of their competitors. Go here for the full list of winners. For other awards granted to these outstanding products, click here for Acrobat Connect Pro and here for ColdFusion.
AIR 1.1 Released on June 16, Adobe AIR 1.1 allows applications international support 10 languages - English, Japanese, French, German, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Spanish, Italian, Russian, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese. A single AIR application written in Ajax, Flex or Flash is capable of targeting all of these languages on Mac and Windows. Among the enhancements of this latest version include an optimized management of deployments in enterprises, the adoption of applications and certificates of improvements in memory and performance.
LiveCycle ES Update 1 Besides a large number of enhancements improving the productivity of designers, developers, administrators and users, LiveCycle ES Update 1(announced June 17) includes two new components - LiveCycle Content Services ES, which accelerates the development and deployment of rich applications content, and LiveCycle PDF Generator 3D ES, which automates the creation and assembly of PDF documents from data of 2D and 3D CAD and other product information. This upgrade will be available in a few days.
Connect, Discover, Inspiration.Calendar salon MAX 2008/2009. Here are the dates of the exhibition MAX 2008/2009 annual Adobe user forum incontournable reserved for developers and creative, to be held in San Francisco, Milan and Tokyo. Take this opportunity to explore emerging technologies, learn how to create attractive content for different media and equipment, and establish contacts with management and the Adobe product experts as well as your fellow partners and users.
MAX North America - San Francisco, California, USA
16 - 19 November
MAX Europe - Milan, Italy
1 - 4 December
MAX Japan - Tokyo, Japan
January 2009
Soon more information about these events Source: Mailing Adobe
You are probably already aware of the release of Adobe Media Player (AMP) which is built into AIR. Many popular TV PBS, CBS, MTV and others have signed with AMP. AMP I believe will quickly become a simple and effective way to display the content and improve the experience utilisateur.De addition, Adobe has also provided videos for AMP. One of the most interesting is the channel ADC (Adobe Developer Connection). Adobe evangelists simply show how to develop in Flex, AIR, Flash ... etc
The last interview is that of Ely Greefield, which talks about Flex 4 and the future of Flex.
You'll find the same content on tv.adobe.com, but the advantage with AMP is that you can save your content and watch it later in "offline".
NJ, who works at Adobe, has created a new AIR application to read RSS feeds:Snackr. Snackr is not a simple RSS reader - it is an "RSS Ticker", it takes all items in the RSS feeds of the site that you visit and displays on the side or bottom of the screen.
It's quite distracting when running all the time! but really very practical to see the new articles that interest you. And read the blog is very fast.
At Adobe MAX 2007 in Barcelona, Chaize Michael has developed an AIR application ...
Adobe AIR application communicate with a PDF file. The idea is to build a bridge of container JavaScript mx: HTML and communicate with a layer of Acrobat JavaScript.
Click here to see the video presentation of the application
Click here to install and test the application. You must install at least Adobe Reader 8.1.
Click here to browse the sources of the project (Flex Builder 3).
