This quarter's new Adobe Edge is now live on their site and DevelopmentArc has two features this release.  Aaron sat down and wrote up a great introduction to Flash Catalyst round-tripping called "Roundtripping between Adobe Flash Catalyst and Adobe Creative Suite 4".  He takes a look at how it works and a proposed workflow that designers and Catalyst users (maybe the same person, maybe not) can use to make iterative updates to the UI.

I know we have been really quiet on the blog front for a while.  We have been swamped with work, which is a great thing.  Anyway, we saw Ryan's post today about the newly updated Fireworks FXG updater on Labs.   This is one of the cooler things about Adobe (and Macromedia) technology.  The FXG exporter is just an Extend Script file that did the FXG conversion by parsing the structure of the file and converting it to a corresponding FXG structure.

If you think about it, this is really an amazing and interesting concept.  Since FXG is just XML output you can use a script (or tool) to do conversion.  We are definitely spending some time thinking about this idea over here at DevArc.  It could lead to some interesting workflows and experiments...

The second of our five part series focusing on Flash Catalyst has been released on Peachpit.com blog.  In this post we focus on where Flash Catalyst fits inside of the larger Adobe Flash Platform.  We review the upcoming changes to Flex 4 that were required to facilitate Catalyst and the workflow it brings to the Platform. For the designer, Flash Catalyst has long been sought  to help extend their static design vision into the world of interactive features. We explore this new workflow as well.   Read the post here

We are proud to announce that we are beginning work on a new book for Adobe Press that focuses on Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder and Creative Suite based projects and the development workflows these tools enable.  Our good friend, Doug Winnie (Group Project Manager at Adobe and web workflow expert), will be co-authoring the book with Aaron and myself.  As we write the book we will be making updates here on our blog about our progress and research. In the meantime, Peachpit.com asked us to guest author a weekly series on Flash Catalyst.  Our first post, Adobe Flash Catalyst: Under the Hood—Part 1 Introduction is now on their site.  Make sure to subscribe, because each Monday a new post will be available.

With the release of Adobe's Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder public betas the Twitter-realm and Blog-o-sphere have been all a buzz with excitement, skepticism and of course questions, questions, questions.  One issue that seems to be the hot topic for the day is the idea that Fireworks CS4 is being treated as a second-class citizen in the new Flash Catalyst world.  The root of this assumption starts with first screen you see in Catalyst, note that Fireworks is no where to be seen: