AIR 2.0 Sneak Peek
Tonight I attended the "TonTon Flexeurs" (TTFX) meeting with Lee Brimelow and Mike Chambers. While Lee explained all the things that can be done to extend the Flash Platform using the ByteArray class, Mike presented a few of the latest as3corelib library features and a sneak peek of AIR 2.0. AIR 2.0 - codename "Athena" - will feature a lot of new system related updates. Discover a few of them (including a worldwide exclusive!) right after the jump...
You can also look at Michael Chaize's event photo album on Flickr!
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Rich User Interface design with Balsamiq Mockups and Napkee
Creating a rich and efficient User Interface (UI) is the Saint Graal of every Rich Internet Application (RIA) developer. As Michael Chaize said it in his RIA introduction conference he made this year at EPITA, we call it "Rich" Internet Application because the software takes advantage of a rich User Interface and offers a rich user experience.
Flex developers can use the "Design" view of Flash Builder to design their UI. But this method requires to already have the components you want to work with and make sure they are full MXML. Because the WYSIWYG editor of Flash Builder does not interpret ActionScript components, it is more of a "What You See Is ore Or Less What You Get". If you need more than the Flash Builder WYSIMOLWYG editor -- and I certainly hope you do 
-- here are two awesome tools to create and export UI mockups.
More details right after the jump...