Announcing the Flex Authority Schedule for Fall 2009, Winter 2010, Spring 2010

Posted At : November 5, 2009 12:01 PM | Posted By : Leif Wells
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After a long delay, I am pleased that Flex Authority Issue 3 has shipped to subscribers. While this was not the way anyone planned things to happen, my focus is now on getting Flex Authority back on track.

I am excited to announce the schedule for the upcoming issues of Flex Authority. Below are our themes and publishing dates for our next two issues as well as a sneak peek at what our sixth issue will be about. Feel free to offer to write on a suggested topic, suggest other theme-related topics or simply suggest a topic that you would like to write about. We typically advise our authors to write articles from an advanced point of view so that our all of our readers may get something from every issue. Typical article length is between 2000 and 3000 words.

Flex Authority Issue 4

Theme: Future Flex
Description: This issue covers the next version of the Flex SDK and all the new features that developers have to look forward to in 2010. Along side of the Flex SDK is the next version of the IDE now named Flash Builder. With the Flash Builder Beta 2 publicly released at Adobe MAX 2009, everyone has access to the IDE but do they know everything that they can do with it?

PLEASE NOTE: While we have quite a few articles already in our editorial, we are still looking for some articles about skinning, as well as any number of advanced topics.

Articles Due: November 16, 2009
Publish Date: December 20, 2009

Flex Authority Issue 5

Theme: UX (basically user experience design)
Description: This issue covers user experience design and all the related areas. Think of this issue as a primer for developers looking to create better applications through the application of user experience design.

Suggested Topics:
Flex UX 101
10 Things to Avoid in your Next Flex Application
Why Are Users Not Using Our App?
Success Story: How UX Saved the Day
Using Flash Catalyst Effectively with Flex Developers
Smoothing Out the Designer and Developer Workflow

Topic Submissions Due: January 11, 2010
Articles Due: February 1, 2010
Publish Date: March 15, 2010

Flex Authority Issue 6

Theme: Flash Player 10 and Flash Player 10.1
Description: In this issue we dive into all the new features of Flash Player 10 and Flash Player 10.1. Consider this a primer for all the new features in the Flash Player for Flex developers who haven't used them yet.

Suggested Topics:
Audio and Sound Features of Flash Player 10 (Microphone Access)
Flex and P2P (Peer Assisted Networking)
Global Error Handling
HTTP Streaming of Video

Topic Submissions Due: March 8, 2010
Articles Due: April 5, 2010
Publish Date: June 15, 2010

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