Harish Sivaramakrishnan

Yay! Adobe Flash Builder 4 & Adobe Flash Catalyst beta’s are out!  Adobe Flash Builder is the next generation of Adobe Flex Builder with a whole set of new features while Adobe Flash Catalyst (erstwhile known as Thermo) which is a interaction design tool (It can convert a photoshop or an illustrator file into a functional flex app Download & try out the beta bits at Adobe Labs.

I am specifically kicked about the new Data Centric Development features (DCD) of Flash builder. Simple drag & drop – wizard work flows now makes connecting to a back end simpler than anything you have done before using Flex.

I am sure all of us would have seen the flex dashboard application (in case you haven’t, see it here )

With the Adobe Flash Builder 4 beta, A dashboard application which connects to a Google App Engine back end with interactive drill down can be built in 10 minutes (yeah, 10 minutes. Actually lesser if I am not talking )

Now, the interesting part – I have  two part video which demonstrates the building of this app using Flash builder with a few drag and drops and minimal coding. The completed app just has 100 lines of code (including line breaks). now, isn’t that cool?

PART 1 / 2

You can access the services at the following URLs

• http://hsivaramakrishnan.appspot.com/dashboard?operation=showtotal
• http://hsivaramakrishnan.appspot.com/dashboard?operation=areawise

Check this space for more demoes and tutorials on the Flash Builder and Catalyst features. Flash Ahead!

Thank you for the overwhelming response for the invites that I had with me. Despite getting twice the quota of invites that I initially had, the event is completely sold out. See you all on 3rd June. Its going to be exciting for sure

Dear all,

I am sure you have all been hearing about the new super-cool tools that Adobe has been building. We will preview many of these new innovations - Adobe Flash Builder (formerly known as Flex Builder), Adobe Flash Catalyst, upcoming versions of LiveCycle and BlazeDS at the “Adobe Flash Platform Tools Preview” to be held on 3rd June 2009 at Taj Residency in Bangalore. You can read more about the event by visiting our website.

Entry to this event is by invitation only. If you would like to join us for this event (it is an evening event with dinner:) drop me an email hsivaram [at] adobe [dot] com and I will send you an invite. I have a limited number of invites in my quota which I can release on FCFS basis. So hurry up, send me a mail!

See you all on June 3rd

Lets Flash Ahead!

Just stumbled upon this site called indabamusic.com. Quite a nice idea to bring session musicians together to build and mix sessions on the web. The sound mixer is built on flash. Quite a neat app. Try it out here!

The upcoming version of the tool to build your flex applications is called Flash Builder! (Erstwhile known as Flex Builder). The flex framework will continue to be known as Flex. The naming is appropriate given the fact that every one who is building a Flex / Flash / AIR app today is building it on top of the “Adobe Flash Platform”

Welcome, Flash Builder!