Adobe release new betas today of AIR and Flex 3.

Adobe AIR Beta 2
Adobe® AIR™ lets developers use their existing web development skills in HTML, AJAX, Flash and Flex to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/

Adobe Flex 3 Beta 2
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.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/

I’ve been developing with C# and Asp.Net since its beta version and enjoy using it as a development platform. When I started learning Flex, I was often reminded of my Dot Net developing experiences and often translated concepts in my mind to help me learn. This article runs through a very basic C# Web Form and translates the code to an ActionScript 3.0/MXML Flex application. This article assumes that you are already familiar with developing with either C#.Net or Flex 2 and wish to learn the other.

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I enjoyed the Flex seminar at Roosevelt Hotel in NYC this past August 14th. For those of you who weren’t able to attend, you can still see it! All of the sessions have been recorded and are available on-line.

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On Thursday, August 31st, Adobe is having an eSeminar on Flex Data Services. You can sign up for this Breeze Meeting or one of their other upcoming Flex 2 events on Adobe’s Web site.

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Back in May Adobe had a week-long online seminar with a lot of broadcasted sessions on Flash and Flex. You can find recordings of all these sessions in the community section of their web site. http://www.adobe.com/communities/developerweek/

Hold down the control key and hover over different mxml tag properties and ActionScript function calls in your source code. If the word turns into a hyperlink you can click on it to jump directly it’s function.

Shlomy Gantz started up a Flex Users group and opened registration during the Real-World Flex Seminar at The Roosevelt Hotel in NYC. According to Shlomy, by the end of the day there were roughly a hundred registrations from both on-site and on-line applicants. I was around the 50th or so person to register and that was fairly early in the day. They plan on having their first meeting this September. You can find them on-line at http://www.nyflex.org.