Migrating to ActionScript 3

As developer who has to switch between developing in ActionScript 2 (for Flash Lite development) and ActionScript 3, I can understand the issues that developers might have in transitioning. To aid in this Adobe has just launched a new section on this issue, including the ActionScript 3 migration cookbook  (beta). Also they tracked down several long-time Adobe Flash users at FITC Amsterdam 2009 to get a real-world perspective on how they approached learning ActionScript 3, what the main challenges were, and whether it was worth it for them to invest the time to learn the language. This and other resources can be found at: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/migration.html

Adobe CEO talks about Flash and new technologies on FT.com

via Andrew Shorten

There is a three part video interview with Shantanu Narayen, Adobe’s CEO, up on FT.com today as part of their “View from the Top” series, in which they talk to CEOs about news and trends within their respective industry.

In Part 2 of the interview, the conversation is focused on the adoption of Flash on mobile phones and the competition between Flash and Microsoft Silverlight, as well as Adobe’s strategy for getting new technology adopted as a standard and cloud computing. There is some interesting discussion about Adobe’s relationship with Apple and Google.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Video Tutorials

Adobe has posted an extensive collection of video tutorials for Flash, Device Central, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Bridge, and all the other products that appear in the Design, Web, and Production Studio versions of the Creative Suite.

There’s everything from Getting Started videos for beginners to new features, product overviews, and workflows. All these videos can be viewed on the How To channel on Adobe TV.