Now end of our excitement about 8ball is very near. Macromedia just released public beta of Flash Player 8. It has very improved performance gain regarding antialiasing, Cached bitmap techniques and also new video codec for better Flash Communication Server results.

Important Links:

• Release Page
• System Requirements
• FAQs
• Submit Bugs and Feedback

Download Links:

• WIN IE Installer
• WIN NetScape, Mozilla, Opera Installer
• MAC OS X 10.x Installer
• UnInstallers: WIN and MAC

Session: Flex Builder 1.0

Speaker: Macromedia QA Engineer, Gabriel Chua

Description:Macromedia Flex Builder 1.0 is Macromedia’s authoring tool for Flex development. With a diverse set of features, Flex Builder aims to help developers learn MXML faster, develop more efficiently, and allows different members of the team to become involved in Flex development. Flex Builder has gone through a number of betas and was released recently to the public.

Many Flex development teams are currently using Flex Builder’s design view, MXML code editor, and debugging functionality to help build effective and usable Flex applications. The Flex Builder presentation will discuss the benefits of Flex Builder, and discuss the packaging and pricing decisions that were made. There will also be a demo of the feature set at the end of the presentation.

Link: http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/p97959151/

Christophe Coenraets released MySQL Administration tool in Flex.

Please read blog post here

and here is the Flex Code

Flex Builder … sometimes known as Brady is now released officially …

get a Free Trial for 60 Days from here

Presentation on Flex Builder

WaldoSmeets.com gave very nice example to add a calculated column to a datagrad as flex example.

Look at Example