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Share your apps on social media platforms, track their success, and earn revenue through ad-hosting.

Collaboration

Use Flex-based client components and a hosted service to add real-time social capabilities into your RIAs.

Social

Enable applications to integrate with leading social networks like Facebook and MySpace.

Shibuya (beta)

Start selling your AIR applications with new try & buy functionality. Shibuya is now in limited beta.



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Published every eight weeks, the Edge contains original content geared toward informing, enlightening, and inspiring web designers and developers.

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Flash ActionScript 3 samples

Learn about Flash by doing: These updated samples demonstrate features common in Flash development.

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Adobe AIR sample applications

Be inspired by what your peers are building on AIR—and learn from them.

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Certification

Certified Flex 3 Developer Exam: Now available

Set yourself apart from other IT professionals, and demonstrate your skills and knowledge with Flex by taking the new Flex certification exam.

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Featured Adobe evangelist

James Ward

James Ward

This Adobe JCP representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301 uses Flex to build beautiful front ends for Java-based back ends—and blogs about RIAs, Flex, AIR, Java, open source, Linux, enterprise software, and cloud computing.

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Write & Give Program

ADC Write & Give Program

We acknowledge the writing efforts of our community authors by donating money to charities for each article they publish in the ADC.

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Developer videos

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Flash Catalyst 1:1

In this video training series, Doug Winnie shows you how to use Flash Catalyst CS5 to wireframe, design, publish, and hand-off to development an interactive application design for the browser or desktop.

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Featured events

FITC San Fran 2010

FITC San Francisco 2010
(Aug. 17–19; San Francisco, Calif.)


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Adobe MAX 2010
(Oct. 23–27; Los Angeles, Calif.)


Build an app in a week

Build an app in a week
(recorded sessions online)


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Developer Spotlight

David Lenaerts

David Lenaerts

Meet David Lenaerts, picked for his use of Adobe technologies such as Flash, Flex, AIR, Pixel Bender and, on occasion, Alchemy.

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