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Adobe Goes .edu

A new Web portal for students and faculty who are studying or teaching Flex and AIR

Nov. 6, 2007 05:00 AM

Adobe has launched a new Web portal: Education Developers Center.

This new site should become a one-stop shopping point for college professors, full or part-time students, and everyone who is studying or teaching Adobe Flex, AIR or any related products.

First, there is a registration link where students and faculty can get their free copy of Flex Builder. Second, it provides links to various Flex tutorials that will make your immersion into Flex as smooth as possible. Third, it has a motivational article by yours truly, which I wrote while in good mental health. The article was written for free and under no pressure of any kind or form. Why? While Flex still has a room for improvement, today it doesn't have any competition in the market of rich Internet application development tools. If the balance on this market will change one way or the other, I'll be the first one to admit it. But as of November of 2007 I suggest you start getting your hands dirty with Flex.

Now students have no excuse like "We don't have money for beer. Ain't gonna buy no Flex Builder." Now you can have both: the beer (I recommend Leffe Blonde) and Flex Builder. Drink and program responsibly.

Disclaimer for professors. Flex is not a replacement of Java. It's Flex in addition to Java.

Your truly (this time wearing a hat of adjunct professor at NYU)

Yakov Fain

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About Yakov Fain
Yakov Fain is a Managing Director of Farata Systems, consulting, training and product company. He has authored several Java books, dozens of technical articles. SYS-CON Books released his latest co-authored book , Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters in Spring 2007. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Yakov with the title Java Champion. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. He is an Adobe Certified Flex Instructor. Yakov co-athored the O'Reilly book "Enterprise Application Development with Flex". He twits at twitter.com/yfain.

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