Last week at Web 2.0, I presented a session on Designer/Developer workflow using Flash Catalyst CS5 and the rest of the Creative Suite 5 design tools including the new CS Review service.

You can see the presentation in this Acrobat Connect recording.

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Today on Adobe Labs, we have released WorkflowLab Beta 2. WorkflowLab is a utility built using Flex 4, Flash Catalyst CS5 and has been updated to use the new AIR 2.0 SDK.

As a tool to help plan, map, track and share workflow and best practices, WorkflowLab has added a number of significant features to work better with iterative-style workflows and to give you more valuable linking and discipline mapping capabilities for workflow items that you build with WorkflowLab.

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Adam Cath from the Flash Catalyst CS5 team provided some information on the new features that are part of Flash Catalyst CS5 over the earlier Beta 2 release.
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San Flashcisco Session Posted

April 27, 2010

Last Thursday, I presented “CS5 in a Flash”; showcasing some of the new features in Creative Suite 5 including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash Professional, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst and also our new CS Review service.

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Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 Released

March 22, 2010

I’m pleased to announce that the Flex 4 SDK and Flash Builder 4 have launched and are available for download from Adobe’s website. With the release of Flex 4, making high-quality web and desktop applications has never been easier. For a developer, you can quickly connect to data services, code with greater efficiency, monitor network [...]

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Update to Flex 3.5 SDK for AIR Auto Update

February 2, 2010

The Flex team has released an update to the 3.5 SDK that addresses an issue with the Flex-based AIR auto-update UI packaged within the SDK (SDK-24766). The refreshed build, SDK 3.5a, has only a few files modified in order to fix this issue and this change does not affect the signing and caching of the [...]

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WorkflowLab Beta Released

January 13, 2010

I’m happy to announce that the WorkflowLab Beta is now live on Adobe Labs. WorkflowLab beta includes lots of new features that make it easier to build, share, and track workflows and get started on new projects using workflow best practices. WorkflowLab includes the following new features: Custom Tool Support: Author workflows using customized tools [...]

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WorkflowLab Beta Preview: Usability and Interface Enhancements

January 11, 2010

This preview post will cover a number of collective enhancements we’ve made to WorkflowLab making it easier to use the application more efficiently. Collapsable Detail Panel The first is the ability to toggle the display of the detail panel. This helps maximize the viewing space for the workflow to better work with larger and more [...]

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WorkflowLab Beta Preview: Duration-Based Grids

January 8, 2010

A workflow takes place over time with a starting point and an ending point. The alpha version of WorkflowLab didn’t give you any visual indicator regarding how long that workflow actually took, making it difficult to understand the workflow’s scale and scope. With the beta release of WorkflowLab we have added the ability to customize [...]

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WorkflowLab Beta Preview: Workflow Item Links

January 7, 2010

Another feature that was originally planned with the alpha but wasn’t able to make it was the ability to associate web links with workflow items. With the WorkflowLab beta, we have been able to get that feature in to give workflows added annotation and documentation capabilities by linking them to external resources or materials. Within [...]

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