Hundreds of discussions were ans are available over the Internet, offices and more about the Flash vs Silverlight possible “nuclear war”. Opinions apart it’s pretty well know where the balance falls when to choose one of these tools to implement any work on the web.

Do you still have doubts regarding this matter? Well, smashing Magazine has put up live maybe one of the most cools comparisons between these two technologies. It’s really worth a look. At the end you will see a table showing where these two tools perform better then the other.

Another curiosity is the buzz this matter caused and still causes over user’s, there’s already a huge list of 243 answers to the article.

Anyway, Flash wins 9-5.

Silverlight vs Flash

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Exploring the sample files and component workflow
3. Exploring the AIR Browser sample application
4. AIR components API

Adobe AIR Developer Connection for Flash

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.

Press Connect is a script created by Tim Wilson that will allow you to connect your Flash Website with Wordpress Content. After integrating the database the script returns everything via XML.

Tim also made available his .fla from his site and you are free to buy if you want. The press connect script is available to download for free.

Tim Wilson Lab

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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