Im currently in the process of beginning to write a new android book. Yea there are quite a bit of them about there, in my opinion I think I can write a better book focused more on getting things done rather then getting things you would rarely do done. Sure the usual content will be there, but i want to add more interesting stuff so the floor is open to anyone who is interested in android, What do you want from an android book. If your idea ends up being used Ill be sure to thank you in the book, so leave your name :) .

Lynda is offering free Catalyst Training. Check it out, its pretty cool. Especially since Catalyst is a completely new program, there is no previous experience we can bring to the table to get caught up with it. http://www.lynda.com/home/ViewCourses.aspx?lpk0=432

Don't get me wrong, I Love halo. I bought both halo 2 and 3 on launch day. Stood in line for 6 hours to get my hands on the limited edition super pimped out copies. I just saw the trailers to the new halo games, Halo ODST and Halo Reach and I don't know the spark isn't there. I remember when I first saw the halo 3 trailer, I jumped up and down and now its 12:37 am and Im just looking at these saying cool and just not even bothering to go find out more about them or anything. Either I'm just getting too old for this stuff, or Halo is losing is charm. What are you thoughts?

I can finally talk about this in the open!. Being on the prerelease for both these products (and many more cool ones coming ;) ) has been quite fun. You get to see the latest features and the goods and bads before the world sees it. Some of the cool things from Flash builder have been that they have really integrated the data service model into the IDE. You can create CFC's based on the data, do other cool stuff and it just makes life easy as pie. With respect to Flash Catalyst, while I havent checked out the build on Labs yet ( I think i got the same one from the prerelease site) one thing that bothers me and *again* I do not know if this is implemented in the build on labs and *i do not even know if i can talk about this*, but you cant edit the code view for the tool. Maybe this is just because its a beta, and they dont want anything being messed up but other then that little bug, Flash platform is a real kick ass tool. The funny thing is, now that F.C is released I cant seem to find any use for it! I havent taken any client work in the past few months because of AndSpot so I have nothing to test F.C against. Well Ill just try some stupid PSD off the web and convert it to a Flex Desgin. Great work Adobe!