Came across this little gem (thanks to Binusha for the link!). Tutorom offer loads of free lessons on everything from Adobe Flex 2, to Oracle, JavaScript, Adobe PhotoShop CS2 and more, and thats just the tech related topics ( you can learn how to drive a manual car!)
Definitely worth taking a look at. www.tutorom.com
Adobe Australia is hosting the following online Connect presentations, one per week on Friday at a time that suits Australian & New Zealand audiences. Each week, you will have the chance to not just connect and listen, but also ask questions.
To register, go to the Adobe site to register;
http://events.adobe.co.uk/events/cgi/event.cgi?country=pa&eventid=5407
Upcoming sessions include
July 6th - What’s new in Flex 3?
Come and see the new and cool features inside Flex 3
July 13th – Introduction to LiveCycle Designer
An introductory session on how to build forms for Acrobat, Flex, ColdFusion and LiveCycle developers.
July 20th - Web applications and AJAX using Dreamweaver
Learn how to build an AJAX site using Dreamweaver.
July 27th – ColdFusion 8 – Working with PDF forms and documents
With ColdFusion 8 now in public beta, see how to integrate PDF forms and documents using Cold Fusion
August 3rd – Maximising the User Experience using AIR
Learn how to use the tools of Adobe Interactive Runtime to improve the user experience of branded desktop applications
August 10th - Improve the performance of your applications ActionScript in Flash CS3
An introductory session to Actionscript 3 for Flash developers. We will show you ActionScript basics, enabling you to speed up applications
August 17th – LiveCycle Data Services – Combining PDF documents into your Flex applications
Starting from scratch we will take you step by step through the creation of the document, to taking data out of a Flex application and merging it with a PDF. Great for creating reports, invoices etc
August 24th -Take your Flex applications off-line with AIR
We will show you how to syncronise data using SQLlite and introduce you to File API to save data offline
August 31st - Develop custom components for Flex with Flash CS3
Learn how to easily convert Flash content into Flex components, providing seamless integration between Flash CS3 and Flex
Yes its raining, but don’t go home, don’t go shopping.. if you’ve registered make sure you join us tonight at WebJam
Jam Bar, Level 4, Hotel CBD, York St, Sydney.
Overnight Adobe has released a dot release update to both Acrobat 8 & Reader 8.
What’s new?
How about “offical” Vista support, integrated support for Acrobat in Office 2007 (Create PDF, Review etc etc in the toolbar of most Office applications), faster dynamic form rendering & improved 3D rendering amongst other things!
This free update is available immediately on Adobe.com;
Reader 8.1 download;
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Acrobat 8.1 update;
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3661
Steven Webster, of Adobe Consulting in Europe, has written up his impressions of LiveCycle ES and what it means to Flex Developers delivering RIA projects for enterprise. It’s a good indication about the buzz that LiveCycle ES is creating both internally and externally in those who were traditionally “Macromedia” focused and previously dismissed LiveCycle as this “PDF thing”.
LiveCycle = PDF + Flex + SOA
I’ll say it again, if you think you’ve seen LiveCycle.. have another look!
http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/