Fraser Crosbie – Calgary Flash & Flex Developer

“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

I have finally got around to learning Flex 2. I did play with it a bit when the Flex Builder 2 beta was released awhile back, but with the lack of good documentation at the time I decided I would wait for the full release. While writing the blog reader tutorial in the Flex builder help files, which connects to Matt Chotin’s blog, I came across a link to a very cool site called The Flex Online Compiler built by Ben Forta, Ted Patrick, and Ray Camden. It allows you to type MXML and ActionScript code right into the page and have the server compile it into a SWF below. This is a great way to see what Flex can do without having to install any programs onto your computer.

http://try.flex.org/index.cfm