The day that many of us have been waiting for has arrived. Today, beta versions of both Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst are now available for download via Adobe Labs. The two new beta releases have been in closed beta for quite some, but as of today the doors are now opened.
These days as a designer/developer rapid prototyping has become a key component to getting projects in and out the door much quicker. To this effect, many prototyping tools have surfaced over the last year or so. A new rapid prototyping tool, FlairBuilder, created in Adobe AIR has just hit the market and first looks of it look pretty impressive.
In today's media player development, every attempt to create a personalized media player has resulted in multiple flavors of multiple media players. Complete saturation and non-consistency! The need for a standardized video framework is in high demand and sorely needed. Adobe's attempt is to provide a standard media player framework, code-named Strobe, to enable the creation and delivery of high-quality, monetized video experiences.
To kick off the new season, Yahoo Developer's Astra components have been updated. New this season is a component called Form which will help with those gathering and validating data in Flash. Many other bug fixes are involved in this update along with the support ofaccessibility throughout most of the components. To get a defined breakdown of all the updates, bug fixes and new features of this latest Yahoo Astra update, check out their latest blog posting.
Yesterday, Adobe released the ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API. The new ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API, fully supported by Facebook and Adobe, makes it easy to build applications that combine the strengths of the Flash Platform and Facebook Platform.
With the growth of intense Flash applications that handle sensitive data like usernames, passwords, account data, etc, HP looks to increase awareness of common security vulnerabilities that can be found in today's Flash applications. Earlier this week, HP announced the release of its security tool called HP SWFScan.
