I wrote an article called “Video Conference with Flex & FMS” for the latest issue of Web Developer’s & Designer’s Journal (Volume 4 Issue 10). This article was available in the printed version of the WDDJ during MAX at the ColdFusion Developer’s Journal booth. I am not sure when the article will be available on sys-con.com’s website. The article walks you through how to create a video conference...

Well, this has been a very interesting week, I have seen Apollo ever day this week. Friday night we had the privilege to keep Adobe Evanglist Richard Galvan in Vegas and present at the local Adobe Dreamweaver User Group. He started off by talking about Apollo, showing a clock, panel transparency, and the Mike Chambers music player. One tidbit that he throw out was the idea of the Apollo Framework being downloaded incrementlly as you different...

In the “End-to-End Dubugging Flex” session we got the chance to preview a Flex profiler (it’s not definite that we will ever see it but is known that developers want it). With the Flex 2.1 update they fix it so you can breakpoint Flex Framework source file. You can actually do this now with no visual cue by pressing CTRL-SHIFT-B. It will show in the breakpoint list in the debugger prespective. Another good tidbit is use the...

I received my copy of O’Reilly’s ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook, by Joey Lott, Darron Schall, and Keith Peters. It covers all the basics of the language as well as touch on some of the more advanced features of AS3. Looking over the Bitmap filter section shows some hidden gems that I think will find there way into a lot of Flex apps.

Here at MAX’s thursday keynote we get the peak into possible furture features/products. First was a Yahoo IM plugin connecting to Adobe Connect. Part of the demo was PDF files integrated into Connect also with SyncSDK contorls of viewing the PDF’s. Next, Tim Bruntel with the ColdFusion team demonstrated the new Scorpio features through an elebrate story with Scorpio Man (Ben Forta) helping save the day. In short they demo’d...

Ted Patrick is giving the session on improving AS3 performance. The one thing he is making sure we take with us from this MAX session is that strong typing optimizes bytecode. Ted showed examples of strong typed versus weak typed code, the measurements showed at least 3 times faster execution speed.