WebMantras

Download Adobe Flex 3 beta (open source released under the MPL license).

Key features of Flex 3 includes:

• Adobe® Integrated Runtime (Air™)support

Extend your Flex applications to the desktop (formally code-named Apollo).

• SWF size reduction

Greatly reduce the size of your SWF by caching the Flex framework on users’ computers.

• Refactoring

Find and rename all references to classes, variables, and methods.

• Performance and memory profilers

Investigate memory usage and analyze where your applications is spending its time.

• Easy integration with Flash® CS3

Create interactive, animated content in Flash, and use it n Flex as a Flex component.

• New and improved data visualization components

Enhance your data visualization capabilities with new components like the new Advanced Data Grid.

A week left for the Flex Developer Derby deadline hosted by Adobe and Builder AU.

Update:

The competition deadline has been extended to 15th September 2006.

Adobe launched a Flex 2 collabrative tool called JamJar on labs.

From the JamJar labs site:

JamJar provides a private and persistent canvas for small groups to easily exchange digital content in order to:

• Plan events
• Exchange ideas
• Manage projects
• Centralize information
• Share files and images

You will need Flash Player 9 is to run JamJar.