Grant Skinner has released a new tool called RegExr aimed to help ActionScript developers edit and test Regular Expressions in ActionScript 3.0.

[gskinner.com] RegExr is an online tool for editing and testing Regular Expressions (RegExp / RegEx). It provides a simple interface to enter RegEx expressions, and visualize matches in real-time editable source text. It also provides a handy RegExp snippet sidebar with descriptions and usage examples to make it easier to learn Regular Expressions through trial and error.

Learn more about using Regular Expressions in ActionScript 3.0 and Flex >>

Give RegExr a try >>

As you’ve no doubt heard (and heard, and heard, and heard, and heard…), there is some new news about the ever-so-popular subject of Flash support on Apple’s iPhone. However, the reports of Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayan’s comments about Flash support on the iPhone during yesterday’s earnings call were not necessarily complete and accurate (shocking!!!).

Here’s what Shantanu said (as can be confirmed by viewing the recording of the call here):

“Well, you know, we really believe that Flash is synonymous with the Internet and frankly anybody who wants to browse the Web and experience the Web in all its glory really needs Flash support. I mean, we were very excited about the announcement from Windows mobile adoption of Flash on their devices and the fact that we’ve shipped a half billion devices now, non-PC devices — so we’re also committed to bringing the Flash experience to the iPhone and we’ll work with Apple. We’ve evaluated the SDK we can now start to develop the Flash Player ourselves. And,we think it benefits our joint customers so we want to work with Apple to bring that capability to the device.”

And here is Adobe’s follow-up, official statement:

“Adobe has evaluated the iPhone SDK and can now start to develop a way to bring Flash Player to the iPhone. However, to bring the full capabilities of Flash to the iPhone web-browsing experience we do need to work with Apple beyond and above what is available through the SDK and the current license around it. We think Flash availability on the iPhone benefits Apple and Adobe’s millions of joint customers, so we want to work with Apple to bring these capabilities to the device.”

I hope that helps clear things up.

UPDATE: Adobe’s Bill Perry has a more detailed post about this issue

UPDATE 2: I forgot to mention that Microsoft recently announced that they are licensing Flash Lite and Adobe Reader LE for the Windows Mobile OS so all future Windows Mobile devices will automatically be Flash and PDF-enabled.

Even though leg 1 of on AIR Europe is sold out, we still have a bunch of other cities open to registration. Also, the capacity of the Paris event has been expanded due to overwhelming demand.

If you want a deep dive on Adobe AIR and can make it to one of the cities below, make sure you sign up now while there’s still room.

• Paris, 02-Apr-08
• Stockholm, 02-Jun-08
• Berlin, 04-Jun-08
• Warsaw, 06-Jun-08
• Prague, 09-Jun-08
• Munich, 11-Jun-08
• Milano, 13-Jun-08

To learn all about the on AIR Europe tour, visit onair.adobe.com.

Flex.org has a “Showcase” section that lists a variety of public-facing Flex apps. This is a very handy resource.

This download is very hard to find and doesn’t seem to be in the Flex 3 SDK – so here’s the direct link:http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=flex%5Fskins 

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We’ve been having a discussion internally about our program for Flex training in higher education. As I posted earlier, we recently started providing Flex Builder to students and faculty for free. What else can we do to get more students around the world learning Flex? Please share your thoughts and suggestions.

I’ve had several conversations over the last few weeks with customers who have advised me that Adobe should be giving away Flex Builder to students around the world. Well, last October we announced that we were doing this.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — October 24, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it is offering Adobe® Flex™ Builder™ 2 software at no cost to students and faculty at educational institutions worldwide. The Flex Builder 2 integrated development environment (IDE) is part of a powerful toolset for designing and developing rich Internet applications (RIAs), an essential part of Web 2.0.

Details here…

I recently did an interview with Computerworld’s Heather Havenstein for an article about Adobe AIR. Heather also posted a brief Q&A with me discussing the types of applications that can be built with AIR. As I told Heather in the interview, AIR can be used for developing a wide range of applications from consumer-facing to line-of-business software. 

Chuck Joiner of MacVoices recorded the audio from a presentation that I gave to a large number of Mac-related user group managers while at Macworld Expo in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. This was my standard Adobe AIR overview which was followed by Adobe’s Dave Helmly giving an impressive demonstration of Adobe’s Production Premium suite and Adobe’s Terry White diving into the Creative Suite design tools. Terry was the MC of the event and managed to change my title when he introduced me (though we did write it down for him). So if you listen to the recording don’t think that I’ve changed jobs again. :)

Hello everyone – I’m on stage at Macworld showing off the Bee sample application for Adobe AIR. Find it on the samples page at labs.adobe.com.