Ryan Stewart gives us a look at what's new and on the horizon with the Flash Platform

People talk about usability and learnability when discussing web and application development. But what does it really boil down to? Trust. Carl Smith from nGen Works talks about building and keeping trust with your users.

Christian Saylor from Universal Mind explored the UX methodology in a unique, engaging, and inspiring format to a community of developers who sought to understand the sometimes confusing world of the Experience Designer.

Hear an overview of Flash Builder 4: including a simple REST style call to retrieve and display XML, a SOAP based Web Service client, a simple PHP client, advanced PHP client with data paging enabled, and much more.

David Kelley talks about that middle ground where some of the best creative agencies live. Using tools like Adobe Illustrator to build better User eXperiences for Silverlight and WPF, from marketing Brand Jordan to retail.

Explore how to use (and reuse) custom, reusable components in Flash and Flex projects so that they are easy for developers to implement and simple for designers to skin, allowing both sides to get what they want.

Get an intro to the 1.0 release of the Swiz Framework, what metadata processors are and why you should use them, how to build your own custom metadata processor and examples of metadata processors that are already available.

Nate Beck from Universal Mind takes you through the basics of game development on the Flash Platform. From setting up development environments to the basics of game development using the open source PushButton game engine.

HTML is making major strides towards being a worthy competitor for Flash. Jeff Croft and a panel of experts discuss its advantages, disadvantages, and where the two stand in terms of device compatibility and interoperability.

David Wadhwani (General Manager and Vice President for the Flash Platform) holds a town hall style discussion, answering questions from developers, and discusses the current state and future of the Flash Platform.

Lee Brimelow gives an introduction to some of the new Text Layout features and functionality in Flash CS5.

Trevor McCauley, from the Flash Player team gives some tips and tricks that will be useful for developers when targeting the Flash Platform.

Flash Player 10.1 introduces a full, native multi-touch API that allows you to create some amazing applications. In this session Lee Brimelow demonstrates how to build applications using native multi-touch feedback as well as how to use the built-in gesture support for things like scaling and rotating.

Arno Gourdol, from the Adobe AIR team, gives an overview of what's in store for Adobe AIR on desktops and devices.

Matt Snow, from Adobe's Experience Design Team discusses some of the lessons learned from designing applications and content that target multiple screens.

Heidi Williams shows off a bunch of new features from Flash Builder 4, the next version of Adobe’s developer IDE. She also covers designer/developer workflows, easy ways to connect your app to data, and new integrated testing tools.

Jim Corbett from the Flash Player team discusses some of the changes to Flash Player 10.1 that the team has made to ensure that the player performs well across desktops and devices.

In this session Tareq AlJaber shows how developers can take advantage of the new Flash CS5 and Flash Builder 4 integration to create ActionScript based content and applications from within Flash CS5.

Richard Galvan gives an introduction to Flash CS5, and show some of the new features that make this release one of the best yet.

Edge Managing Editor Julie Campagna attends Flash Camp and interviews several Flex developers to find out about their learning experience and to get tips on how to best approach learning Flex.

Flex developers at Flash Camp in Boston speak out about the exciting new features in Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder).

Join Deepa Subramaniam, Product Manager of the Flex SDK, as she walks you through the new features in Flex 4 & Flash Builder 4. Additionally discusses what is coming up within the Flash Platform around creating engaging and compelling Flash-based mobile applications as well as talks about the growing Flash and Flex ecosystems.

Dive in to the depths of coding features of Flash Builder 4 with Rob Brambley, an engineer on the Flash Builder team. Learn keyboard shortcuts you'll use every day, how to keep your code beautiful, cool new debugger tricks, hidden commands, and more!

Flex and Java have always made a great pair. Mark Fischer will be talking about integration points between Flex 4 and Java and how SpringSource can make it easier and faster to create a Java/Flex application.

Flex SDK Engineer, Ryan Frishberg, shows the new Spark skinning architecture in Flex 4 by creating a new skinnable stopwatch component and a few different skin files.

One of the most interesting new features in Flex 4 is that developers can easily create custom layouts for data components. Join Flex SDK Engineer, Evtim Georgiev, to learn more about this new layout model, show how to create a custom layout in Flex 4 and show the APIs that allow developers to work with elements, handle scrolling and navigation, and creating virtualized layouts.

Kevin Schroeder from Zend examines some of the reasons for using PHP as a back-end system for Flex, some of the architectural considerations of PHP, and some options for handling error conditions that may (will) occur in both production and development in your Flex and PHP applications.

ColdFusion Product Marketing Manager, Alison Huselid, shows off some of the main features that are aimed at making ColdFusion developers more productive while integrating across Adobe's tools.

Flex 4 introduces a completely new effects and animation model that gives developers the ability to create customized transitions. Flex SDK Engineer Chet Haase walks you through the new features and shows you how you can make use of the new effects model in your Flex 4 applications.

Flash Catalyst Product Manager Doug Winnie demonstrates how interaction designers and UI developers can use Flash Catalyst to build interactive wireframes for Flex applications.

Heidi Williams, Flash Builder Engineering Manager, shows off a bunch of new features from Flash Builder 4, the next version of Adobe’s developer IDE. She covers designer/developer workflows, easy ways to connect your app to data, and new integrated testing tools.

In this video, Dave McAllister (Adobe director of open source and standards) discusses Adobe "open" initiatives and open efforts around the Flash Platform. Flash Camp developers chime in.

Managing Editor Julie Campagna and Technical Evangelist Ryan Stewart catch up with several developers at Flash Camp and ask them about their first impressions of Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst.