Articles this issue:

* Edge featured video: Flash economy
* Getting to know Adobe Flash Collaboration Service beta
* Creating a Massively Multiplayer Online game with Adobe Flex 3
* The edge of Flash
* Designer perspective: How to approach ActionScript
* Enabling Flex components to talk to each other
* Applying InContext Editing from a business perspective
* Developer Profile: Behind the scenes of Sam’s Interactive Reader

Adobe and Facebook get closer by creating a AS3 Library for Facebook, this will allow developers to create rich social web applications using Flash, Flex and AIR.

Adobe AIR Team Blog has all the details.

“Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) today announced a $10 million Open Screen Project fund designed to help developers create applications and services for mobile, desktop and consumer electronics devices using the Adobe Flash® Platform. The new fund is a result of the Open Screen Project, an industry-wide initiative of more than 20 industry leaders set to enable a consistent experience for web browsing and standalone applications. Additional Open Screen Project partners are expected to join the fund in the future.”

Press Release (PDF)

Video: Validating data (7:15)

Exercise: Validating form data (PDF, 100K)

(Download Starter, ZIP, 34K; Solution, ZIP, 36K)

Video: Requesting and sending data with RemoteObject (20:52)

Exercise: Using RemoteObject to send data to the server (PDF, 503K)

(Download Server, ZIP 22,642K; Starter, ZIP, 35K; Solution, ZIP, 36K)

Exercise: ColdFusion version: Using RemoteObject to send data to the server (PDF, 236K)

(Download Solution, ZIP153K)

Video: Formatting data (6:09)

Video: Dragging data between List components (5:20)

Exercise: Implementing drag and drop between components (PDF, 627K)

(Download Starter, ZIP, 36K; Solution, ZIP, 36K)

Video: Filtering XML with E4X (12:04)

Exercise: Using XML with E4X (PDF, 54K)

(Download Starter, ZIP, 36K; Solution, ZIP, 37K)

Video: Deploying Flex and AIR applications (11:57)

Exercise: Deploying a Flex application (PDF, 504K)

(Download Starter, ZIP, 37K; Solution, ZIP, 37K)

Exercise: Creating and deploying an AIR application (PDF, 1,194K)

(Download Starter, ZIP, 37K; Solution, ZIP, 816K)

Via Flex in a Week

Video: Displaying data in the DataGrid (6:35)

Video: Working with containers (12:12)

Exercise: Working with containers (PDF, 144K)

(Download Starter, ZIP, 32K; Solution, ZIP, 32K)

Video: Creating custom MXML components (8:42)

Exercise: Creating custom MXML components (PDF, 230K)

(Download Starter, ZIP, 32K; Solution, ZIP, 33K)

Video: Implementing value object classes (13:46)

Video: Creating custom events (5:59)

Video: Creating custom event classes (23:06)

Exercise: Creating custom events and dispatching data (PDF, 337K)

(Download Starter, ZIP, 33K; Solution, ZIP, 34K)

Video: Customizing item renderers (6:42)

Exercise: Creating an item renderer (PDF, 128k)

(Download Starter, ZIP, 34K; Solution, ZIP, 34K)

Video: Exploring Flex Builder tips (5:18)

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In this issue:
The Adobe Flash Platform today: A community perspective
Build a personal productivity application with Adobe AIR
The edge of Flash
An iterative approach to the designer-developer workflow
An introduction to InContext Editing with Dreamweaver CS4
The future of Adobe Flex components
Fresh from the Adobe AIR Marketplace