A few months ago, when we demoed some of the new features in Creative Suite 4, there were a lot of questions about InContext -- the in-page editing service from Adobe. Adobe today released a new version of the InContext service. InContext lets you set locked and editable regions of a Web page, and clients (or others authorized to update the pages) can update the content of those pages right within the Web browser. A Flex app launches which reads the Dreamweaver-based templates and determines what's editable and what is not.

For designers building small-to-medium sites, InContext looks like a really slick way to let clients update pages all on their own. The service is currently free, but I'm sure we'll eventually see a subscription fee attached to the service.

If you happen to use InContext, please let me know! I'm very interested in hearing your experiences with it.

The Flex team released the Flex SDK 3.3 yesterday, which is largely a bug-fix release for the SDK (and really doesn't have much to do with Flex Builder). The full release notes are here, including the list of known bugs that persist in the SDK.

The new 3.3 SDK does require a new version of the Data Visualization Components. Complete instructions for updating the components are on the release notes page.

Adobe is delighted to offer JHAUG members special pricing on Adobe software. Place your order before March 2, 2009, in order to save 20% on all Adobe products in the North America online Adobe Store.

Here are the simple steps required to get your discount:
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If you have additional questions or would prefer to place your order by phone, contact Adobe at 800-585-0774.

Remember that you can also buy from the Adobe Education Store. However, you cannot combine discounts — you can use this discount or the education store discount, but not both at the same time. Keep in mind also that there are restrictions on purchases from the Adobe Education Store which do not apply in the regular North America online Adobe Store.

Ted Patrick and his team are getting ever closer to getting all the sessions from MAX 2008 online. They just added 50 more sessions, on a wide range of topics. All the sessions are available via Adobe TV.

Adobe has committed to putting recordings of almost all of the sessions from MAX 2008 on Adobe TV, and the session count is now up to 25. Most of the topics seem to focus on the designer end of the workflow, but there are a couple of sessions on Flex and recordings of the very-hard-to-get-into sessions on Flash Catalyst. With over 200 sessions at the conference, more recordings are soon to come!

Ted Patrick, leader of the excellent team who put together this year's MAX conference, posted that sessions from this year's conference are starting to go online. First up is

Introduction to Flash Catalyst and the Next Generation of Flex

This session is available from AdobeTV and hundreds more are to follow.