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

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!

Yes, thats right. Guess the real name for Adobe's new cool wicked tool codenamed Thermo and win a free copy of Flex 3 in Action. The rules are simple :
1) Must live in Canada Or America
2) Guess the name either via commenting here (leave your name/email for sure) or emailing Faisal at g-unix.com with the subject THERMO CONTEST.
3) The person that guesses the closest to the actual name wins the book. It will be shipped out to you via Amazon. No charge for you :)

Let the guessing begin!
Thanks to Nathan for pointing out that people are submitting their emails. The admin console wasnt showing them, but there in the sql database. So keep on guessing :). PS Ryan has posted a hint, its in the comments!

All that hype paid off, we have Flex 3 in our hands (well hard drives). Now everyone gets busy developing applications and telling their bosses, Look boss its final!. Most of us are getting excited over the fact that we have access to the SVN where flex 4 sdks are going to be posted in a couple of months :O! . What i am excited about is getting my hands on thermo. Burn baby burn!

Today on the Adobe Edge newsletter, Thermo was being demo'd and this looks like an amazing tool for developers especially who arent that "artsy". This can also make a better workflow between desginers and developers. I cant wait to try this tool out.

http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/december2007/video/index.html?trackingid=BOYND