Flex builder on Linux kept on Hold?

This post has reported that the flex builder work on linux has been put on hold.  Noted Adobe techie has said “there is not enough requisition for the product to continue its development”

Well, that’s not a great news to hear.. considering the open sourced SDK of adobe flex,  good amount of interest was generated in the FOSS developer community. To help it revive again, use this link to vote on the adobe site.

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-19053

From the current builder available on linux ,which is infact a eclipse plugin, the main feature I missed was, the design view in it. Hopefully, when the development continues design view is also ported to linux.


Patch for Flex builder 3 with Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede

If you have been working with Eclipse 3.2 or 3.3 with flex builder 3, and if the upgrade to 3.4 broke the builder, try the following patch http://www.tekool.net/blog/2008/06/28/flex-builder-3-plugin-dont-work-with-eclipse-34/

Just download the patch from here unzip it somewhere on your desktop and copy the plugins content ( 2 jar files) to your eclipse’s plugins folder. If you have any existing files while copying good idea would be to take a backup before doing so.

Now restart eclipse with -clean option. Your flex builder should work as it used to before.

Add to FacebookAdd to DiggAdd to Del.icio.usAdd to StumbleuponAdd to RedditAdd to BlinklistAdd to TwitterAdd to TechnoratiAdd to Yahoo BuzzAdd to Newsvine

Searchme – The new era of visual search.

Searchme is a search engine. Yes, one would guess, oh here’s another one out to change the way one searches the web. But this one does catch your attention. It displays results in visual format and lets you slide through results using a slide bar in the bottom. The visual effects are appealing, which gives you a impression like as if we are flipping through yellow pages. As you type the categories are auto suggested and placed as icons right below your text box as shown below.

searchme autosuggest

As is evident, the whole site is Flash SWF file. The rich look and feel is driven by Flex and is currently under beta stage. It would take them some time to establish themselves, but their crawlers are already on the sprawl to index the web. You can join their development team by applying to jobs@searchme.com .

searchme


Watch the demo videos
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/BZSpjXEvy1I&hl=en]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/TsGR5HP2ffw&hl=en]

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Tags: , , ,