Yes, you heard it right folks. From now on we are not just a Flex User Group we have widened our area of focus to the Flash Platform as a result this group will now on be called as Ahmedabad Flash Platform User Group. All this started when one of my colleagues started the discussion about a flash user group in Ahmedabad. I had a talk with Mr. John Koch and we came out with the decision that our group itself can be group dedicated for flash platform rather than only Flex.

I believe this was the right way to move forward since Flash or Flex both are related to programming with Actioncript 3.0 with two different set of tools and ultimately to get the output in form of a SWF.

 
We already have many flash developers as members in the community and this step would clear the confusion among them and everybody who works on any flash platform will get good vibes and should own this group. All these intiatives will also be reflected in the up coming group meeting where will have sessions on different topics on different technologies related to flash platform. So, flash developers in Ahmedabad who are yet to join the group because of the confusion, join in to the community as this is your community.

Cheers
Sunil

As I had already made you aware about the Flash & Flex Developer's magazine and what their future plans are in my last post.They have notified about a recent update which is:

June issue Free for Download :

http://www.ffdmag.com/prt/view/back-issues/issue/1015.html

Check out this link and download the free issue :)

I was wondering if we could change the properties of SWF that is generated from flex and if so how?
I made a quick search in the help of FlexBuilder but was not able to find much help
But then the solution for this would be :
In mxml class is to add a metadata in Application class:

</mx:Metadata>
[SWF(width="500", height="500", frameRate="30", backgroundColor="#FFFFFF")]
</mx:Metadata>

and in an Actionscript class it would look like this:

package
{
   [SWF(width="500", height="500", frameRate="30", backgroundColor="#FFFFFF")]
   public class MyClass
   {

    }
} 

 This might not be used quite often, but it is worth knowing.... :-)

Recently the second edition of Great Indian Developer Summit was held in Banglore. The summit presents awards for different product and innovation excellence of the hundreds of software products and tools that aid developer productivity.Guess who won the award for the category of
Best Frameworks??

 Adobe Flex. Cheers!!!!!!

Adobe also won awards in other categories as well, which were:

• Collabration solution - Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional
• Web Development - Cold Fusion 8

Check the link for more information on the summit 
http://www.devmarch.com/developersummit/postAwardWinners.html 
Such great events which are based on software technologies are rare in India. Attending such summits are really beneficial as we get to know more about technologies other than we work on and also get to meet different people across the globe.I would definitely attend the summit next year.

Cheers
Sunil