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Flex and Salesforce / Force.com Updates

There have been a lot of exciting things happening with Flex and Salesforce / Force.com lately. First Ryan Marples recently announced the release of an updated version of the Force.com Toolkit for Adobe AIR and Flex. If you are doing development with Flex and Salesforce or Force.com you should download this new release to take advantage of the latest enhancements to the web services APIs. Today Adobe updated the Adobe Developer Connection’s page containing information about integrating Flex and Salesforce / Force.

MAX 2008: RIAs in the Cloud with Salesforce.com and Flex

Tomorrow at 3:30 at Adobe MAX 2008 there will be a session on building rich Internet applications in the cloud using Salesforce and Adobe Flex. They will even be giving away a new Macbook! The combination of Flex and Force.com (the platform side of Salesforce) is a fantastic way to build RIAs in the cloud. If you are at MAX this is a session not to miss!

LincVolt Flex App in Salesforce Keynote

I’m here at day one of Dreamforce 2008, Salesforce.com’s annual conference. During Marc Benioff’s keynote they announced the new Force.com Sites technology for Salesforce hosted websites which can integrate with Salesforce data. At the end of the keynote Marc brought out Neil Young to talk about LincVolt, an open community for converting gasoline based cars to electric / compressed natural gas cars. It’s a very cool project but what I was really excited about was their use of Flex on the Force.

Flex at Dreamforce 2008

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I’ll be at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference next week in San Francisco. On Tuesday I’ll be co-presenting a session on using Adobe AIR and Flex with Force.com. The rest of the time I’ll probably be in the developer lounge hacking on Flex code. Stop by and say hello!