Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe® AIR™ and Adobe® Flex® 3 software, furthering the Adobe technology platform for rich Internet applications (RIAs). Developers and designers use Adobe RIA technologies to rapidly create and deploy rich, branded content and applications. The release of Adobe AIR signals the next wave of Adobe RIA innovation by bridging the real-time, dynamic capabilities of the Web with the computing power and data capabilities of the desktop. Businesses that leverage the Web as a platform are now using the latest Adobe RIA technologies to build and deploy more engaging applications with the widest reach across browsers, desktops and operating systems.

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This job posting is location specific, we are looking for someone who is within driving or public transportation distance of San Francisco, CA U.S.A.

This project is already 60%-70% programmed, and we are only looking for someone to finish v1.0 and potentially take the project to the next level [v2.0, v3.0 etc] with us if there is a good fit - staff/management/programmer.

We are looking for energetic, driven people to participate in a WEB 2.0-ish project.
The project is to be built on Adobe AIR/Flex technology to run on the PC, Mac platforms, as well as mobile devices [iPhone, and others].

The successful applicant should enjoy a fast paced, challenging environment and understand making and meeting deadlines.

You should have an understanding of programming on the PC, as well as MAC platforms.
Understanding basic networking [TCP/IP] is also a good idea.

Knowledge of Adobe AIR pre-release/1.0 and Flex 3.0 required.
Knowledge of UI design a big plus.
Knowledge of Flash, a definite bonus.

Knowledge of other programming languages such as Java, XCode are valuable, but initial focus is on the AIR/Flex program.

You, the programmer will be working with a team of 3 to 4 interns.

Working from home after initial trial period is a possibility for the right applicants.

Compensation will be based on type of position and experience.

Serious applicants only, please.

Starting Date: Immediately.
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Contact information for this internship is as follows:

email: exlemor@gmail.com

Hours for this position are somewhat flexible…
Willing to work with the right applicant to meet in part their schedules…

Sincerely,

Emmanuel Lemor
ThumbIt, Inc.

Resources list by riascope.com

What is Adobe Flex, the open source sdk, IDE, learn the basics of what Flex is and how to put a Flex application together.

Adobe Flex for beginners

Main Features:

- (stable) Full AMF3 support. See GDS AMF3 documentation.
- (stable) EJB3 services with transparent externalization mechanism and lazy initialized ActionScript 3 beans (Entity Beans / Hibernate). See EJB3 Services and Externalizers and Lazy Initialization.
- (stable) EJB3 Entity Bean to ActionScript 3 classes code generator. See AS3 Generation.
- (stable) Spring/Acegi security services. See documentation on Spring Services.
- (stable) POJO services (remote calls to simple Java classes that expose public methods). See Pojo Services.
- (experimental) Data push. A Comet-like implementation with AMF3 data polling over HTTP (consumer/producer based architecture). See documentation on Data Push (Gravity)
- (experimental) Seam integration: a reliable GDS/Seam integration with full scopes (at least conversation) support. See documentation on Seam Services.
- (experimental) Guice/Warp integration: a reliable GDS/Guice integration with Wideplay Warp persistence support. See documentation on Guice Services.
- (planned) Entity repository: a client side entity repository that ensures uniqueness (only one instance of each entity is present in the flash VM), weakness (only currently bound objects are kept in memory), and that acts as a services frontend (all server calls/events are managed by this central component). This will be loosely inspired by Cairngorm.
- (planned) A set of Flex components suitable for complex data structures.

Granite Data Services

Download the complete chapter in PDF

Flex Community Blog is developing a Flex MP3 player with some nice features.

The best is that all the process is explained. This way you may give a try on developing your own.

Good Luck!

Flex.org has all the slides and tour dates.

Three RIA Platforms Compared: Adobe Flex, Google Web Toolkit, and OpenLaszlo
— The defining characteristic of any RIA is that it has a stateful client that is (or should be) platform and browser independent. Thin-client web applications grew from the need to provide applications with more reach, easy access to server side data, and to alleviate the pain of having to install and configure thick client software. Thin-client web applications remain a great way to accomplish these goals. However, with the advent of these new RIA platforms, developers now have all the reach of a traditional thin-client web application with many of the useful characteristics of thick-client applications, such as the ability to maintain state on the client.

Smallworld: The coolest Flex application I’ve ever seen by ZDNet’s Ryan Stewart — My night is blown. I just got an invite to SmallWorlds, a massive multiplayer game (really world) that was built entirely in Flex/Flash by the team at Outsmart. It’s an immersive cartoon world filled with Web 2.0 goodness everywhere you look. You start as with any other world by setting up your character. There are [...]

Adobe’s James Ward shared with InfoQ.com the top Adobe Flex misconceptions.

The mechanic can now diagnose the car from the computer and check the cars vitals and components. It even has the ability to turn on such things has headlights and sunroofs.

Take a look at this nice application at merhl

This kit allows you to create interactive, animated content in Flash, and use it in Flex as a Flex component.

Get all the info here.

I hate flash, unless its to stream video… Other then that I hate it. Anyone whom asks me to do flash stuff would get rejected. But I was asked to copy a website and they used flash upload to upload many files… In html its not even possible you are stuck with 1 file selection at a time. So I raped Google into giving some Flex code.

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All this, now at Adobe Labs.

kuler Desktop for Adobe AIR Beta 3
Adobe AIR Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Beta 3
Flex 3 Beta 3
Adobe AIR Beta 3

Great news folks! Flickr has teamed up with Picnik to integrate photo editing directly in your Flickr account. Just login to your account, choose a picture and click at the Edit Photo button. Picnik will fire inside Flickr, and will allow you to make lots of changes at your image.

Marc’s Musings is working on a Flex component for his AgileAgenda AIR project that might be interesting to follow close. He probably will release this tool has a component pretty soon, so stay tuned.

Get the details about this application at Marc’s Musings website.