Apollo, Moxie, Frogstar

I have no idea which one I should be more excited about! :D

Codename: Apollo
Name: Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
Info: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/
Description: Adobe® AIR™, formerly code-named Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.
Download Runtime (Beta) | Download SDK (Beta)

Codename: Moxie
Name: Flex 3
Info: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/
Description: Adobe® Flex™ 3 is a cross platform, open source framework for creating rich Internet applications that run identically in all major browsers and operating systems.
Download Builder (Beta) | Download SDK (Beta)

Codename: Frogstar
Name: Flash Player Update 3
Info: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/
Description: Adobe® Flash® Player is the high-performance, lightweight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones, and devices.
Download Player (Beta)

Along with the above mentioned series of exciting betas, there’s also a contest going on called Adobe AIR Developer Derby! Read more here!

Day 10: Project Flexas

Wow how time flies. I’m into the tenth day of Project Flexas, and I still have not introduced it at all!

Project: Flexas
Duration: 30 Days
Objective: To learn Flex 2 and ActionScript 3.0 within 30 days, after which, able to confidently develop and deploy projects using the skills learnt.

How does this name come about you ask? Well.. simple! ActionScript is called AS in short, so by simply concatenating “Flex” with “AS”, you get Flexas! :)

Part of my technology ride that I’ve recently began, I’ve been very very busy and absorbed daily by Flexas! The original motivation started when Adobe announced the launch of the alpha version of Apollo. I want to be able to deploy something on Apollo!!

Looking back at the last 10 days, they had been very fruitful. I’m now able to navigate confidently around in the Flex IDE, and able to do simple events and states setup, loading of external XML and doing some basic ActionScript 3.0.

Unfortunately though, I think I’m not pushing myself hard enough. Mmm… I seem to be lagging behind my milestones. Gotta keep pushing!!

Wish me luck! :)