Developer Connection for April 30, 2007

Adobe (Apr 26)
Adobe announces plans to open-source Flex under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Developers will soon be able to freely download, extend, and contribute to the source code for the Flex SDK, including the Flex compiler, command-line debugger, and application framework.

Greg Hamer (Apr 30)
Get a quick overview of setting up a live webcast using Flash Media Live Encoder and Flash Media Server, and then create a playback SWF file to embed in your web page.

Take a look at this popular video gallery project, now updated for Flash CS3 Professional.

• Examining the ActionScript 3.0 Flash video gallery source files
• Deconstructing the ActionScript 3.0 Flash video gallery application

Judah Frangipane (Apr 30)
Run these examples to get started using Flex with PHP.

Razvan Cotlarciuc (Apr 30)
Learn how to validate the contact form and verify associated company for the contact management application.

Understand how to leverage the new CS3 design tools in your mobile projects in this e-seminar by Bill Perry, developer relations manager for Mobile and Devices. (38:00)

Ensemble Systems Inc. (Apr 30)
Get Flex to talk to LiveCycle Workflow and manage workflows through a highly interactive user interface.

Ron Stone (Apr 30)
Use Adobe LiveCycle Workflow to define workflows that split at one or more points and then merge back into their parent sequence of activities.