Tour of California – Adobe

The 2009 Amgen Tour of California is slated to kick off on Saturday. This 9 day, Tour de France-style cycling road race that challenges the world’s top professional cycling teams to compete along a demanding, recently expanded, 750-mile course from Sacramento to Escondido. 

Race fans can follow the tour, and the progress of their favorite riders and teams, with the race trackers built on using Flex, AIR, Flash Player, Flash video and LiveCycle technologies.

You can read the press release (and see some video) here.

You can follow the race here.

I’m planning to watch the race on the last day as they climb up Palomar Mountain.

Update: I did travel up Palomar Mountain, and got to watch them fly up the hill. I’ve posted my photos on my Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=90964&id=581228763)

Choosing a Flex framework

After a great presentation at the last San Diego Flash User’s Group on the PureMVC framework, I found a nice write up comparing the major Flex frameworks (Cairngorm, Mate, SWIZ and PureMVC).

For Flash based projects, you might want to look at Gaia.

PureMVC resources

At last night’s San Diego Flash Users Group meeting, our manager Kyle Tyacke gave a great walk through on PureMVC. 

Here are some additional resources that folks might find helpful.

An introduction to PureMVC for Adobe Flash and Flex in the Adobe Edge newsletter. If you haven’t subscribed to this newsletter you should.

On AdobeTV, there is a short video “Intro to PureMVC“

Hope these are useful.

Adobe Flash Platform ActionScript reference

This ActionScript reference for rich Internet application development provides an alphabetical reference for all native ActionScript APIs for the Adobe Flash platform runtimes: Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR—as well as the Adobe Flex framework APIs. Use this guide both as an API reference and a tool to learn about the ActionScript APIs available within the runtimes. Download the pdf.