RIA Development with Adobe Flex and Flash

Big News! Yesterday, Adobe® Systems and Facebook announced a joint effort to enable Web developers to create more compelling applications using the Adobe Flash Platform and Facebook Platform. Since, Adobe® Flash is available on more than 98% of Internet-connected PCs, people can immediately access the applications, content, and video that enable social interactions. Officially supported by Adobe® and Facebook, the new ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform is a free and open source programming language library that is expected to be a complete resource supporting all Facebook application programming interfaces (APIs) including Facebook Connect. Check out the Developer Connection at Adobe.com for more information including a video with Adrian Ludwig (Adobe®) and Josh Elman (Facebook).

Here are some of the latest software pre-release software that you can find at Adobe Labs. Most recently Adobe has released the XML Library for ActionScript preview. Adobe developed XMP to establish an industry-wide standard for sharing metadata across applications, file formats, and devices. XMP is open source and it is freely available to developers and system integrators.

XMP Library for ActionScript preview
Check out this preview of XMP Library for ActionScript v1.0, designed to read existing XMP metadata from Flash-based file formats via the Adobe Flash Player.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3
Improve your digital photography workflow and join the testing community for this 2.3 release candidate, now available.

Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5.3
Another great tool for photographers, this plug-in release provides access to the raw image formats produced by professional digital cameras.