Even if I’m not attending MAX US, I wanted to share what I’ve heard from my twitter friends and the live coverage done by Serge Jespers and Andrew Shorten (special thanks to them!) and give my first thoughts. 
The Adobe Flash Platform
Even if it has been already used during presentations for at least 2 years now, [...]

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My friend Neil Webb just started to record video tutorials tackling PHP remoting using Flex & AMFPHP. The first two are “Installing Apache, mySQL, PHP & AMFPHP” and ““Hello World!” PHP remoting example“. The next one will cover the Mate framework using php instead of ColdFusion. He is planning to do a complete series, so that [...]

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After the huge success of FOTB08 in Brighton, Flash on the Beach is going to be rocking in South Beach!
Got the winter blues? Looking for inspiration? If you live in U.S., you should not miss it! The venue will be The Jackie Gleason Theater : it fits the South Beach vibe perfectly, and is a spectacular green [...]

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It was my first time at Flash On the Beach (and in Brighton), and I haven’t been disappointed ! I think that it’s the best conference that I’ve ever attended so far : Brighton is a colorful city with a tremendous nightlife, the Dome is a wonderful venue and there was really top inspiring speakers.
 
I will [...]

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 The Google AJAX Language API lets you translate and detect the language of blocks of text. For non-Javascript environments, it exposes also a simple RESTful interface to use in combination with JSON to decode the result. Let’s try a simple Flex example of language detection :
Demo (right click for the source code)
It’s pretty easy to achieve. Here is how to call [...]

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