We are proud to announce that DevelopmentArc is introducing a new training program focusing on Flex 4 development.  Each training session will be a live seminar hosted online using Adobe Connect.  We will offer our seminars multiple times each month, hopefully providing a good window for anyone who is interested.  Our sessions also include unique training materials that are provided to you after each session.  These materials include the source code we demonstrate with, a PDF copy of the slides and any custom training material we are creating for each series.

Over the last few weeks we have been rebuilding DevelopmentArc.com using Drupal as our new platform.  Prior to the switch over, we having been running Wordpress and it has been pretty good for the last year or so.  Unfortunately, we had purchased a template system that worked well for the launch yet to make it work we had to heavily modify the template and the CSS.

When Wordpress updated to 2.9, this broke all of the tempting systems and the developers had to roll out a new version.  This new roll out drastically changed a lot of the files that we had modified, and this caused us a lot of heartache trying to re-build our modifications in the new template framework.  We are currently planning a Drupal site for a client and we felt that rebuilding our site in Drupal was the perfect exercise.  Small enough to do it between other work and would also free us up from the previous template fiasco since we would be building it from the ground up.

Now that we have ported over to Drupal, our goal is to keep the site in parity to the first one.  Hopefully, you won't even tell a difference.  But now that we control the entire stack, we hope to roll out new content and updates on a much shorter timeline.  That, and we are finally wrapping up our book which has been our main focus for all our work and personal free time.  So, enjoy the "new" site and let us know what issues you all have!

We are proud to announce that Yahoo! with DevelopmentArc assistance launched an enhanced Yahoo! Mail Flickr application.  The updated application built for the new Yahoo! Mail interface allows users to quickly view and share photos stored on Flickr, directly within the mail interface. A user can login and view their own photos and/or view those available to the public. With three clicks, users can construct an email and share a photo or set with friends and family.

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.

The newest release of DevelopmentArc Core is now available on the Google Code Repository.  This release is the first release of the library under the new Core moniker.  Previously the library was released under the Vivisecting Media Code Library, which has been now been deprecated since Core is publicly available.  All updates and new features will be added to the Core system moving forward.

From the code depot you can download a compiled SWC or a ZIP file that contains all the source and ASDoc generated files.  We have posted the ADoc files on-line so that you can easily access them if you do not download them.  Currently, we have 219 unit tests running and passing for the library, which are all available from the source tree if you wish to access them.