Earlier today I received a news letter from ActionScript.org. This threw me off for a second because the only emails I get from them are job postings. The email template was well done and mimics their new site redesign, which is quite nice compared to their old outdated design. If you have already forgotten what it looked like, you can kind of make it out here using the Wayback Machine.
I am currently in the process of reading the excerpt from Tom Muck’s Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide. This excerpt is part of a new partnership between ActionScript.org and O’Reilly. It seems like a good deal for both sides. I am sure this will drive a lot more traffic to ActionScript.org and inevitably lead to more book sales for O’Reilly. So far the first few pages of the excerpt have been very well written and quite informative.
While reading the article I have realized that I will have to change my job title. Now that Flex has been released I am no longer a Flash Developer, but instead, a Client-Side ActionScript Programmer. I think that this is a much more dynamic sounding title, but it will take some getting used to after referring to myself as a Flash Developer for so long.
I am quite excited about the freshened up ActionScript.org site and enjoy having the ability to preview books before investing in them. Of course O’Reilly is one of my favorite publishers, so this is good news to me.
“Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe® Flash® Player 9 for Linux, the next-generation client runtime for engaging with Flash content and applications on Linux open source operating systems. Adobe Flash Player 9 delivers a consistent cross-platform experience and extends unprecedented performance and advanced features to the broadest set of developers and users to date. Additionally, Linux developers can create, test and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the Linux platform using the free Adobe Flex® 2 Software Developers Kit (SDK), Adobe Flash Player 9 and the free Flex Data Services 2 Express.”
Read the full press release
The next version of Yahoo! will be developed using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It seems like the perfect fit for Apollo for other OS’s like Mac OSX and Linux.
See a preview of the next Yahoo Messenger here:
http://messenger.yahoo.com/windowsvista.php
A friend of mine just showed me Adobe’s new icons for branding their next product line. The concept is cool. It reminds me of the Periodic Table of the Elements and obviously borrows some ideas from Macromedia’s old set of logos, making it easy for a consumer to determine that a product was part of the Macromedia’s line because of their similarities. This relation was not so apparent with Adobe’s products.
Overall, this new approach to branding by Adobe seems much better than the old swirls and feathers of the past, but I don’t really understand the color wheel. I’m assuming that it has something to do with the relation between products, but I cant recognize what that relation is, only that Adobe has left the products that they acquired from Macromedia the same color that they were before.
Roll over the icons to view the related product.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/veerles-blog/328983830/