Andrew Shorten @ Adobe

We’re all set with the dates for the European Flex 3 pre-release tour which is taking place in January 2008. Serge Jespers, James Ward, Enrique Duvos and I will be traveling across Europe talking about Flex 3, AIR and BlazeDS – if you’d like to get up-to-date on the forthcoming launch of these technologies then please join us at one of the events.

There will also be presentations organised by the local usergroup leaders which will highlight some of the Flex applications being built in each country.

Dates for each of the events that Enrique and I will be at are listed below – please check the local user group website for location, times and registration information:

• Monday 14th – Moscow, Russia
• Tuesday 15th – Warsaw, Poland
• Wednesday 16th – Prague, Czech Republic
• Thursday 17th – Sofia, Bulgaria
• Friday 18th – Hamburg, Germany
• Monday 21st – Istanbul, Turkey
• Tuesday 22nd – Zurich, Switzerland
• Wednesday 23rd – Barcelona, Spain

If you can make it along to one of the dates above then we look forward to meeting you there! If you’ve been building a Flex application and would like to show it at the event then get in touch.

Serge and James will be visiting the following locations:

• Tuesday 22nd – Paris
• Wednesday 23rd – Milan
• Thursday 24th – London
• Friday 25th – Amsterdam
• Saturday 26th – Brussels

Check Serge’s blog for updated information on these events and locations.

With the continuing demand for Flex developers you might want to take advantage of two training offers that are currently running, one from Total Training and another from Academy Class.

For online training in Flex, Adobe have partnered with Total Training to provide free Flex training courses for 30 days – simply sign up using the activation code 29fa706d. This promotion runs until December 31st 2007.

For classroom-based training in Flex, Academy Class are running a 2 for 1 promotion for their 5 day Flex Masterclass courses running in Manchester and London in January (i.e. two attendees for the price of one). This offer was originally available to attendees of the Adobe CS3 Creative License tour, but they’ve kindly agreed to extend it. To find out more about the offer, including details of any restrictions and course availability, contact Academy Class directly.

Finally, there is also a huge amount of content on the Adobe Developer Connection site which is geared to help you get productive with Flex. Make sure you checkout the samples, documentation and tutorials in the Flex Developer Centre.

Further to my previous entry I can now confirm the dates for all three European events at which Colin Moock will present his ‘ActionScript 3.0: From the Ground Up Tour’.

The dates are:

• Munich, 20th February 2008
• Amsterdam, 27th February 2008
• London, 3rd March 2008

Registration for each event will open approximately 6 weeks before the event date, so reserve the dates in your diary and bookmark the official website.