Flex News Desk

SYS-CON Events announced the first event in the "Real-World Flex" One-Day Seminar series (www.flexseminar.com) will take place on August 14, 2006, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Adobe Systems is the Event Partner and Cynergy Systems is the Platinum Sponsor and will als... (more)

Dave Wolf (pictured), VP of Consulting at leading RIA design and development company Cynergy Systems, is giving one of the more intriguingly titled presentations at SYS-CON's upcoming "Real-World Flex" One-Day Seminar next Monday, August 14. It is called "Front to Back Developmen... (more)

"Apollo," the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop, will be the f... (more)

WebAssist - whose partners include Adobe, PayPal, Yahoo!, Google, and Affinity - today released the latest version, v3.0, of its best-selling SiteAssist program. SiteAssist 3.0 includes new professional-level designs that the company added, according to its President Eric Ott, in... (more)

Adobe's new 'Apollo' product and strategy will be the focus of a session to be presented by Luis Polanco (pictured) at the Real-World Flex Seminar, to be produced by SYS-CON Events at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on August 14. Apollo is said to be an integration of the Flash p... (more)

Adobe's David Mendels and Christophe Coenraets, Allurent CTO Fumi Matsumoto, Flash guru Jesse Randall Warden, ESRI's Mansour Raad, Mark Piller of themidnightcoders.com, Dr. Victor Rasputnis of Farata Systems, SYS-CON's Yakov Fain - all are due to converge August 14 in New York Ci... (more)

Spry Framework for AJAX Prerelease 1.1 Released on Adobe Labs Adobe Labs has released the first update to the Spry framework for AJAX. Spry v.1.0 was initially released in the beginning of May. The Spry framework for AJAX is a JavaScript library for web designers that provides fun... (more)

SYS-CON publishing director Jeremy Geelan interviewed Adobe's Christophe Coenraets at the recent JavaOne 2006 Conference in San Francisco, noting that a "tipping point" in the history of Flex has been reached with recent rapprochement between Java and Flex. Coenraets notes during... (more)

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced the Adobe MAX 2006 Conference, to be held Oct. 23-26 in Las Vegas. MAX 2006 will give developers and designers a forum to network, share ideas, get hands-on technical training from certified experts, gain new skills and learn abo... (more)

With just 8 weeks to go before the first ever "Real-World Flex" One-Day Seminar, Adobe today launches Flex 2, with a free Adobe Flex 2 Software Development Kit (SDK) designed to give application developers a "free entry point" into the Flex 2 product line. The Flex 2 product lin... (more)

Details of this year's MAX, for those who have been wondering, are that it is being held October 23 - 26, 2006, at the Venetian Resort Hotel, Las Vegas, NV. Adobe will have over 90 different hands-on and workshop sessions presented by Adobe experts and other industry leaders on b... (more)

In late 2005 Adobe announced a goal at MAX 2005 of increasing the Flex development community from roughly five thousand to over a million by around the year 2010. The key driver of this initiative is Flex 2 and its tiered licensing model. The bigger the community, the better is fo... (more)

Though not listed either on the US amazon site, nor on Barnes and Noble, the UK version of Amazon is this week already listing "Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source"  - the book that's due out August 31 from Jeff Tapper and his coauthors, James Talbot, Matt Boles, and Ben Elmor... (more)

The JBoss Mail Server (JBMS) has been recently re-branded for its upcoming 1.0 release as "JBoss Collaboration Server." The web-based mail client component of the whole collaboration server package, says JBoss's Andy Oliver, is "spellbinding." The JBMS team used Adobe Flex 2.0. J... (more)

Adobe Systems and Ricoh have agreed to develop and co-market document scanning, security and print solutions based on Adobe PDF. The integration of Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server software, Adobe print and scan technologies with Ricoh Document Solutions and its multifunction (MFP) ... (more)