I had a situation where I needed to edit an FLV today. And went searching for an application to edit this common file format. It seems that the only FLV editor on the planet is written in Flex using Adobe AIR. I am really impressed by the application and I actually think it is one of the best AIR applications I have used. It is a simple utility and gives you direct binary editability into an FLV file. You can inject and edit FLV metadata and crop at any FLV keyframe.
RICHFLV AIR
Hats off to Benjamin Dobler for this great app! :)
Cheers,
Ted :)
Learn Cairngorm and PureMVC frameworks for Flex at Adobe San Francisco - July 17 6PM-9:30PM
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The Silicon Valley Flex User Group is hosting its meeting this week at Adobe Systems in San Francisco (601 Townsend) on July 17 from 6:00-9:30PM. If you have not attended a SILVAFUG meeting I would like to encourage you to join us this week. We got a much larger space for the user group and it should be a great evening learning the frameworks of Flex, Cairngorm and PureMVC. Here are the details:
When:
Thursday, July 17th 2008
Free Flex Training - 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Pizza - 7:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Silvafug Meeting - 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Where:
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Town Hall
601 Townsend Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
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Meeting Presentation: The ABCs of PureMVC
Presenter: Keith Sutton
PureMVC is a lightweight framework for creating applications based upon the classic Model-View-Controller design meta-pattern. This presentation will provide a brief overview of the MVC design pattern and the PureMVC (www.puremvc.org) implementation and then walk through how to use it to build a basic/foundation application. This presentation will also examine the use of Flex Visual Graph Library as a component employed within an PureMVC based application.
Free Flex Training Topic: Beginning Cairngorm
This will be a quick overview into the various parts of the Cairngorm framework. We will create a small Cairngorm application during the session. This app is the same one from my article on Devnet: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/graduating_pt3.html
RSVP for each session separately by sending an email to fugrsvp@gmail.com.
I am going to get many of the Flex team to hand around for the meeting so the croud will be extra special for this SILVAFUG meeting.
See you next Thursday!
Ted :)
Tonight Adobe is announcing a collaboration with Google and Yahoo! to enhance the searchability of SWF content by helping their spiders playback SWFs in the Flash Player runtime. The project runs SWF files within web spiders and allows all contents within a SWF file to be read by both major search engines. The cool part is that this also covers dynamic data loaded in from requests to a server, these are typically ignored in both AJAX and SWF applications.
The net result is that SWF as a file format is now fully searchable by spiders at Google and Yahoo!. This is a very exciting announcement and is sure to be the talk of the town all day tomorrow.
Go SWF, Go Flash Player!
Ted :)
Flex & AIR Training: "For Those About to Code"
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The popularity of Flex has produced incredible demand for skilled RIA developers. I reported in May that the FlexJobs site has grown to 1000 subscribers with over 600 jobs posted.
While the amount of valuable online Flex resources and blogs has grown, there is still a tremendous void of quality Flex training. One of the biggest areas in need, ironically, is right in Adobe's backyard, between San Jose and San Francisco. As more and more web 2.0 and tech companies, ranging from CNET to Google, have realized the power of Flex, the need for skilled Flex developers in Silicon Valley (a.k.a the San Francisco Bay Area) has grown enormously.
I am happy to a learn that two of the most well-respected developers in the Flex community will be offering a series of Flex and AIR training, right here in Silicon Valley. Established and certified instructor Mike Kollen is being joined by Flash/Flex/AIR expert and author Chuck Freedman for a 2-day specialized training session.
"For Those About to Code: Flex & AIR" will happen first during the weekend of July 19, 20. This fully hands-on, 2-day event aims to teach you how to code Flex and AIR applications, having you ready to code when you return to work on Monday. What's even more impressive than the talent of the instructors, is that the course will cost just $675. BELIEVE ME, this is a great deal to learn Flex & AIR over a weekend.
The course will max out at 50 and I am delighted to know that through the efforts of Mike and Chuck, that many more talented Flex and AIR developers will be building great apps on Adobe's platform.
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I really love the ACDC reference too! Chuck and Mike, We Salute You!
Cheers,
Ted :)
Posted on FLEXJOBS:
"JibJab is looking for another Flex engineer to keep building our Flex
team here. We're small but we like it that way because we all get a
lot done and try many different things. You can see the direction
we're going in Flex by looking at our beta site:
You will responsible for technical design and implementation of
cutting edge RIAs using Adobe Flash/Flex 3 with ActionScript 3.0. You
will work closely with our very talented technology, product, design,
and business development teams, to create next generation applications
that will make millions laugh and maybe a few cry — tears of joy, that is.
We are big fans of Cairngorm; we use it to interface with a web
services layer on the backend to deliver awesome RIAs on a pretty
killer architecture. And it's a heck of a lot of fun.
We're located one block from the ocean on Venice Beach in the LA area. We pay you in actual dollars, give you stock options, health benefits, etc. etc. You'll love us.
Send an email to techjobs-2008 AT jibjab.com."
Posted on FLEXJOBS!
Cheers,
Ted :)
