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Adobe open-sources Flex, developers cheer
by Grant Robertson Apr 26th 2007
Adobe Flex, the cross-platform rich web application environment based on Flash, is set to go open-source. According to an interview with several members of the Adobe Flex team, Adobe will let loose some important pieces of the Flex framework under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) as of today, with plans to have a full open source support system -- bug tracking, daily builds -- available by the end of 2007. Microsoft Silverlight, eat your heart out. The open sourcing of Flex should quell some fears developers have of putting all their rich-web development eggs in Adobe's basket. Robert Scoble broke the news, and has a dry but interesting whiteboard interview which helps explain exactly what's going open source, and why it matters to the future of the rich-web.
Thanks Jordan!
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
