Hey everybody,

for those of you out there around Munich I’m talking about the new version of Flex Builder & Flash Catalyst. The talk is happening on the 27.01.09 at the Haus der Kommunikation, Brienner Straße 43-45 a-d, 80333 Munich(Service Plan).

It will be a hands on session with only a few slides. I’m going to show the great new workflow between designer and developer. You’re going to learn how easy it will be to create a dynamic application starting with a photoshop file using Flash Catalyst and Flex Builder. I’m going to show how easy it is to convert artwork to components and export these to Flex Builder. In Flex Builder you will learn about the new features that will make a developers life a lot easier.

For more information please visit http://www.fugmuc.de

Because it’s a german usergroup the talk is held in german.

This video gives an overview of the new features in Flex Builder 4. These are:

• Package Explorer with outline view where you can even navigate into the ActionScript classes of a SWC file. Also you have the Flex Framework in here.
• File Templates which allow you to define templates for Classes, Interfaces, CSS and MXML
• Improved Refactoring with moving of classes
• Class code hints if you mouse over you’ll get the ASDocs for that class
• Generate Getters and Setters
• Generate event handler e.g. when you define a click action on an Button you can automatically generate the Handler with one click.
• Jump to Line in Debugger
• Conditional Breakpoints(I Love this one)
• Network Monitor, yes it’s back!
• Flex Unit support

I’m so looking forward to a stable beta release.

Today I had my Adobe Certified Expert Exam for Flex 3 and AIR here in San Francisco and what should I say, I passed! I must say it was pretty tough, because the exam covered a wide range of Flex and AIR Development including every different aspect there is.

For anybody out there interested in taking the exam check out the Adobe Flex 3 and AIR ACE Preparation Guide. The exams are available through Pearson VUE somewhere close to you.

Part1

Part2

These videos were recorded today at Max in San Francisco.

The Adobe Team showed us a demo of what is possible with Flash Catalyst. I had to split it up in two parts for youtube.

And guess what, Adobe was so kind to give us a DVD with Flash Catalyst and the new Flexbuilder 4, Codename Gumbo. As soon as the Catalyst videos are on youtube, I’m going to post an awesome preview on Gumbo. Stay tuned!

I arrived in Lovely San Francisoco yesterday night. After Alex and Sven picked me up at the Airport we went out for a decent dinner at a Thai place.

Today we registered for the Conference in the Mocone Center. We got our Bagdes and a quit ugly Bag. Fortunatly it’s eco friendly… After that we did a little sightseeing including a Cable Car trip to Fisherman Warf. Really Nice!

Now I’m looking forward to tomorrow on what I’m going to see at the conference. There are quite some rumors about what we’re gonna be presented. Flash Catalyst(Thermo) will be one of the Big ones. Stay tuned for more info tomorrow.

I just have to share this one with you… Click the Image to check out Rob Chiu’s awesome trailer to Flash on the Beach 08.

All right, here we go. I’m sitting in the Dome in Brighton. Wonderfull. We had a great weekend here in Brighton with massie Partys. To not write reviews on every Blog, I’m just gonna link to Pedros review at Dreaming in Flash. Cheers mate!

Go check it out!

My future colleague Pedro from Daily Papervision3D asked me to write an interview on my first time with Papervision3D. I’m really glad he asked, because i think it’s a great idea to get some developers to talk about their first experiences. Along side me, there are already interviews with papervisions father Carlos Ulloa and Jon Williams.

Stay tuned, there will be really interesting interviews comming in the next days…

Read the interview here

Thanks to the guys from the iPhone dev Team i got my phone running on 2.0. Today i found this wonderfull wordpress app. Lets you manage your wordpress blog from your iPhone. Check it out at: http://iphone.wordpress.org

Today letshaka.com was launched.

It’s a viral system, where users can upload a Picture, customize their dance and invite up to 10 friends in their team to support their country at the Euro 2008. The Project is based on the great pureMVC Framework. It uses Papervision3D 2.0 for the 3D Content.

So,go for it and build your own HAKA!

Update: Due to legal issues the project is down atm. I’ll keep you informed on further steps…