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

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

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



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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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Jonnie Hallman

Follow experience designer Jonnie Hallman's ideas and techniques on UI design at DestroyToday.com.

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Duane Nickull

This senior technical evangelist blogs about the SOA and web services spaces plus other forward-looking aspects, such as Web 2.0.

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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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Colin Moock ActionScript 3 videos

ActionScript guru and educator Colin Moock teaches everything you need to know about the core ActionScript 3 language, as well as visual and interactive programming topics and code production issues.

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RIAdventure 360
(Dec. 6–13: departs New Orleans, La.; cruise)


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Developer Spotlight

Holly Schinsky

Holly Schinsky

Meet Holly Schinsky, picked for her use of Adobe technologies such as Flex, AIR, and LiveCycle Data Services to create amazing applications.

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