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Adobe have released final versions of Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIR today. More information is available at the Flex team blog.
opensource.adobe.com is a new site for all of Adobe’s work in the open source community, including the Adobe Flex SDK. Check it out. There’s also a new About RIA microsite available for your […]

This are the features and issues resolved in ASTRA 1.1.1:
AlertManager (Flash)

Bug fix: Alert dialog lost focus if the user selected the text and then hit the tab key.

Charts (Flash)

Improved animation and invalidation of markers.
Bug fix: Setting axis maximum less than the value of an origin-based marker (column, bar) hides the marker.
Bug fix: With large data […]

Adobe have released the much anticipated Apollo runtime and SDK. You can grab it from here.
Mike Chambers has an article on the Adobe Developer Center which you should look at here.

Teknision have built a great Apollo application called finetune Desktop which can be downloaded here.

An interesting article i found on digg called “Why i don’t get Flex”.

RIA pedia has spotted a very nice Flex 2 application that uses Flex Data Services and Flash Media Server. The Tour Tracker 2.0 was built in 4 weeks which is very impressive considering the functionality of the application. The application contains the following features:

Full-screen capable live video stream of each stage from start to finish […]

Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor recently spoke to Adobe senior vice president and chief software architect Kevin Lynch about the upcoming release of the Apollo platform.
What is Apollo?
Apollo is 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, […]

Ely Greenfield of the Adobe Flex SDK team has a very interesting article about “Easy Custom Charts”. There is a cool example that allows you to add comments to each column in a column chart.
Check out the examples here.

In Flex 2 you use the defaultButton property of a container to define a default Button control within a container. Pressing the Enter key while focus is on any control activates the Button control as if it was explicitly selected.
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My company ThoughtFaqtory is currently looking for Flex developers to join our team. Our company focuses on developing Rich Internet Applications using Flex. We are also looking for anyone with a Java or .NET background that is willing to learn Flex. The Flex community is very small or even non existent in Cape Town so […]