Adobe Labs Ideas

Adobe Labs Ideas is a place for the community to suggest and discuss new and exciting functionality for Adobe technologies. Post your own ideas or review and vote on ideas submitted by the community. The Adobe development teams will review all submissions and use your collective input to prioritize feature requests and help shape future versions of products.

Currently, you can suggest/review the following technoligies:
Air, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst, Flash Professional, Flex SDK and WorkflowLab.

Neat stuff!

Securing your Flex application

Interesting read here about how to secure your Flex 4 application, provided you use a Spring enabled Java server.

Adobe Flex 4 SDK out of beta!!

Today, Adobe released the official version of the Flex 4 SDK as well as the new Flex IDE/eclipse plugin named Flash Builder 4.

As with Flex Builder 3, there are two versions of Flash Builder 4: Standard & Professional. The main difference is Profiling and network monitoring features.

Purchase/upgrade costs are described here.

You can download the free Flex 4 SDK here.

You can download a free trial of Flash Builder 4 here.

*** BONUS ***

If you are a student or faculty member with a valid id as proof, you can get the Flash Builder 4 Standard for free here (for non-commencial use).

Optimize Flex SWF file size

Interesting read here.