Fb and Fc is out from the lab

Finaly long waited Flash Catalyst™ is out of the adobe lab. along with FC adobe has release FB as well.

What are you waiting for download and start playing around.

from this any one can start

Flash Catalyst !!! [10% Effort, 100% Gain, 0% Pain]

Thermo got the final roll out name “Flash catalyst” with family belonging Logo.

 
I was just looking interview of “Ryan Stewart” and “NJ Jaramillo” interview about “Flash catalyst” and it just delighted me. I am really exciting to use this bridge in between designer and developer.

http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/december2008/video/index.html

Great competition, Great Outcome

 

SkinToWinChallenge is over!!! Winners are declared!!! The quality of the themes is really great. Especially the first and the second prize are looking really cool. Congratulation to Alberto Alcaraz and Nahuel Foronda. I had also submitted the almost seven themes for the competition  with motivation of “Air Notebook” and “Adobe MAX” but competition was really tuff.  At the end I am happy for that at least one of my theme is got selected for the spot prize.

Basically, I am not a designer but I play with my curser in free time that gives me great joy.  I have learned lot of skinning techniques during the designing of the themes.  Thanks Event

 As per “Juan Sanchez” blog post the entire theme will be available next week for everyone.

Congratulation to all the winners!!!

Thanks Adobe, Thanks Effective UI, Thanks Juan Sanchez, Thanks all the members who had take a part in the competition.

Flex 4.0 Gumbo ~ Developer Designer workflow, just awesome

Recently Flex 4.0 SDK is released. In this release Fx improve developer designer workflow. Not just import flash, Photoshop or AI files into flex builder but true Developer Designer workflow. It means thermo integration, new skin file (FXG) type included , and new name space “2009” will be in place to support new graphic rendering. I guess now every Fx component will have separate skin file which will describe look and feel and function behavior of the component.

When you think of list component in Fx 3.0 or older, what come to your mind?

Ammmm ….. list items can be display in a box with right hand scrollbar, Item can be rendering with itemrenderer and scrollbar can be skinup with .png or flash. Now take look this video and change your mind for list component. In Fx 4.0, every component will be reassemble easily with very less efforts. So, therefor it’s truly amazing Developer Designer workflow in FX 4.0.

Really gr8 going Gumbo

Layout design !dea

For developer it’s always pain to decide position, layout, navigation and containers. here i found very interesting web site which has numbers of layout design ideas. go and explore the site http://www.layoutcookbook.com/

Wow !!! You have have a local file access within your browser.

Few days back FlashPlayer 10 (Code name Astro) released, as usual again with new milestones. This version include lots of new feature like native 3D support (Yes it means myMovie.x, myMovie.y and now myMovie.z available), new text rendering engine, custom filters and effects, improved  new drawing methods. All above this feature, I like the most is access of local files within your browser.

http://www.gotoandlearn.com/player.php?id=76

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/demos/

Great going Astro !!!

Success story of initRIA

Well, formally conference title was initRIA so, please might be expecting more talk on RIA and around technology. But most of the people talk on flash platform except Rakshith who talk on ajax. Session started with Raghu’s presentation and ended with “Birds of a feather” under dim light.

Mrinal had organized my session earlier but I reach venue very late [my mistake ] so, he had rescheduled all sessions and put me on second half. People enjoy first half with Raghu, Rakshith and Yash’s session very well.

In lunch break we had dominos pizza with coke . Once again people grab there seat and show started with InstaColl’s presentation. All the session was amazing and well organizes but I really delighted with InstaColl’s presentation. They demonstrated their upcoming online office suite. take a look this, this, and this. It was so good that every one clapping in during presentation.

It was really nice time. I personally appreciate Mrinal and all other head involve in this success of initRIA.

Thanks adbul for caught initRIA on camera.

“NIIT” A new RIA institute in India

Finally it come up !!!

I have seen often people are asking for flex training center in india. When I met priyank at Mumbai flex user group meeting, he told that NIIT is working on this curriculum. Since our talk with him nothing had came.

Three to four (6^th Dec 2007) days back I was reading “Times of India” at home. Suddenly I got excited by seeing one advertisement of NIIT institute about new courses for “rich internet application”. They will cover Flash CS3.0, Flex, Dreamwewer and coldfusion during this cource. I really don’t know insight of this course. Click on below image for more information.

I think this initiative help fresher to pickup flex and flash technology very fast. Even this will help to blow RIA technology.

For more information mail edgeineers@niit.com and rush NIIT telephone lines (1800 180 8448).

Cairngorm Creator

Every one knows Cairngorm micro architecture is such a powerful for enterprise big size application development. But generating and creating same kind of classes and interface makes task boring.  I found http://www.tylerbeck.com/CairngormCreator/ application of Tyler Beck while I was looking for solution.

  

Application has lots of features like

• User-defineable package name
• User-defineable folder names
• Custom build file
• Save and Load structure definitions (XML)
• Editable source XML
• Preview Files
• Downloadable Zip File

Refer below link for more information http://tylerbeck.com/archives/23/introducing-cairngorm-creator/      

FLSkin is available on adobe exchange

I made three themes with different color code, Orange, Black and Grey. Those themes are having almost every components graphic skinning. It has art work files, if you want to modify any thing on graphics. Those themes are ready to use in any of flex or AIR projects.

You can download and explorer themes from here.