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Adobe and Authorized Training Partner Prisma IT will be hosting the first series of Flex 2 seminars in The Netherlands on May 24th, 2006. You can register at the Dutch Adobe events webpage.
In half a day we will be introducing Java and ColdFusion developers into Flex 2. Note that this will be a fairly in-depth and technical seminar, […]

I’ve updated the Flex 2 skinning example for Flex 2 Beta 2 and you can now download the updated sourcecode from the original blog entry.

Ben Forta will be in Brussels on the 22nd of March, and in Amsterdam on 23rd of March 2006. Ben will host the presentation on “Flex 2 for ColdFusion developers”, introducing the new Flex Builder 2 and new ColdFusion Flex integration.
More information and registration for the Brussels event here and for the Amsterdam event here.

I’ve been playing around with 9-slice support in Adobe Flex 2 for quite a bit. I’m pleased to show with this example that the process of making your own expressive designs for the Adobe Flex Framework, through skins, has been dramatically improved in the new framework. A mayor new feature is that it includes support […]

I’ve posted the Breeze version of todays presentation at JavaPolis 2005 in Antwerp at http://macromedia-v5.emea.breezecentral.com/javapolis2005/. The presentation covers the need for a Service Oriented Client and how Flex 2 will address challenges that are related to building such clients.
Unfortunately I don’t have time to add a voice over to the Breezo. Below is the excerpt for […]

Interesting page at TNO website; the first graduation project that I’ve found on the web targetted to HBO students with Flex knowledge. Is this an Interesting trend that is about to start?

Macromedia partners with JavaPolis 2005 to introduce the Flex 2 product line to European Java developers and architects. I’ll be presenting on the Flex Enterprise Services and the Eclipse-based IDE for developing with the Flex 2 Framework and the brand new Flash Virtual Machine. We’ll also have a booth where we can answer all your […]

I wanted to blog about the same for a while, but never got to it. Check out Peter Ent his coding advice that gives a good summary of how you can already prepare/optimize your Flex 1.5 code for migration to Flex 2.0:

Data type everything;
Don’t use inline objects to dispatch events. Even though Peter doesn’t explicitly […]

After delivering my MAX 2005 presentation ‘Integrating Rich Flash Content into Flex Applications‘ today, people have asked me to make my presentation and source files available through my site. Well, here you go. Breezo + source files. I hope more people will be able to learn from it.
I think my presentation went quite OK, even […]

Now the alpha bits of the Flex 2 Platform have been made available at labs.macromedia.com,  I’d like to know which developers from my region (Benelux & Scandinavia) are playing around with it. Please send me an email or leave your comments here. I want to know who are trying to become the experts that I can […]