Flex Builder 3 Pro Free for Students and Faculty

Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro is available for free to students and faculty of eligible education institutions. To get a serial number you can use to activate your copy of Flex Builder, you are only required to provide a valid proof of eligibility.

Valid proofs of eligibility are:

• A Student ID showing current enrollment.
• A Faculty ID showing current employment.
• A letter on an educational institution letterhead stating that you are either a current student or a current faculty member of the institution.

To learn more and register go to:

http://www.flexregistration.com/

Flex 3.0 and AIR 1.0 are Finally Here!

Adobe releases Flex 3.0 and AIR 1.0 to the public today. If you are in New York, join the celebration at a joint User Group event this week. For details, visit the FlashcodersNY site (More information coming soon).

Adobe AIR enables web developers to bring their expertise to the desktop, and take advantage of seamless integration across platforms. This release comes packed with new features and updated versions of the Flash and Dreamweaver extensions. At the moment, AIR is available for Windows and Mac operating systems, and a Linux version is on the works and will be realeased later in the year.

Flex is still open source, and Flex Builder 3 comes in two versions, and both can be tried for 60 days. Flex Builder Standard has everything you need to build Flex and AIR applications, while the Professional version adds advanced components, charting components and performance monitoring tools.