Did I miss anything?

It seem like the last few days have been jam packed with tons of exciting stuff.

First from Adobe we have Flex Builder 3 hitting labs.adobe.com there are lots of cool additions to the working environment, some new components, even more integration with Flash custom components, full AIR integration, the ability to hot swap between Flex SDKs - just to name a few. It’s looking very good and from the guys at Mook that are using it the compile time has sped up as well. I’m going to be diving into it soon so I can start work on my LFPUG presentation in September.

Apollo is now officially AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), there’s a new version of the runtime on labs.adobe.com and they’ve launch an AIR Derby with a kick-ass best in show prize of $100,000

Adobe also dropped a new beta version of the FlashPlayer, now when users go full screen the player is able to use hardware acceleration for rendering. The upshot of this that full screen video is silky smooth. I’ve also heard that the update broke Reb5, the open source alternative to Adobe’s FMS. It would be sly of me to suggest that this was intentional and an exemplar of how open source can heal itself that the Red5 team have already release a fix.

As a side note on Adobe’s big releases, I spotted a lone post on MXNA yesterday, apparently they also release GoLive CS3, sadly it’s a big who cares from me.

Right, on to Leopard - big changes in the interface - a new Finder, new Dock, lots of new ways to browse files, QuickView looks impressive and a real time saver - allowing you to preview documents and even page through then. The coverflow view is a really flashy addition, they obviously got loads of positive feedback after building it into iTunes. There’s lots of extra gloss everywhere, the new dock especially with it’s Web 2.0 feel. All in all I can’t wait to hand over my ~£100 for a copy of Leopard.

Safari for PC, who’da thought it would ever happen, personally I don’t quite see the point, if it brings more people to Mac then that’s good, but as a developer it’s just yet another browser to test for.

As for the redesign of apple.com - as a Flash developer I’m scare that I might be out of a job. Apple have done an amazing job building lightweight AJAX into a beautiful redesigned site. Love it!