Downloaded the last build “253292″ from adobe prerelease repository.

I spend like couple of hours reading the docs and trying this and that, there is a lot of improvements, but what really caught my eyes is the tooltip help when you mouse-over a component, it gives you a more detailed information than before.

And what really was a WOW for me is the changes in the Data menu, now with the simple wizard you can create a connection to web service, PHP, BlazeDs, and others.

I tried the PHP one, and it went very smooth, I could even without writing a single line of PHP, enter the database credentials, and select the table I want to have access to from my flex app, and in few click, flex created the service in PHP and the mirroring AS classes, It even downloaded the Zend Framework AMF component.

It is much different than before, I had to do a lot of hard coding to get to this point, now developers will have more time to concentrate on the application itself, rather than on connecting to database and making it work.

It is worth trying and developers should read the migration docs from previous versions to get ready for it when it released.

Download Flash Builder Beta : http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashbuilder4/

Flash Builder 4 Migration Doc. : http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/gumbo/flex4featuresandmigration.pdf

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Follow the below link to download your Free copy

https://freeriatools.adobe.com/learnflex/

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sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Once this is done, add Medibuntu GPG key.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring

Then update the list of available packages by

sudo apt-get update

Finally, install Acrobat Reader using

sudo apt-get install acroread

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recently me and my flex developer colleague had a weird problem while exchanging data from zend framework to flex as web services using json.

well, 1st caution :

<?php echo "Json = $encoded_json_data"; ?>

don’t ever use a closing tag ” ?> ” in your controllers or classes, as it will result in new line in the output json data, which will make flex not able to recognize it correctly.

2nd caution :

<?php echo "Json = $encoded_json_data"; ?>

when u echo output from php don’t leave space between the variable and the equal “=” sign and also between the equal “=” sign and the value.
to be clear :
example 1 :

This won’t work as flex will not recognize a value for the variable Json.
example 2 :

This will work because we removed the spaces.

hope u don’t fall in this trap as we did.
& enjoy

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here is the link for the news i got :
http://andigutmans.blogspot.com/2008/07/adobe-to-contribute-amf-support-to-zend.html

and here is the link for the proposal :
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Amf

Enjoy

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