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Well the results of the Rocketboots Flex developer competition are in and to everyone here’s surprise I actually won. Considering the calibre of the other entries it’s a very pleasing result. Now I have to focus on the Official Adobe Australian Developer Derby, I could do with an Xbox.

Thanks to Robin for running the competition and congratulations to the other entrants for producing such high quality apps and if you are entering the Adobe developer derby, best of luck.

The Adobe  Flex  2.0 release is on the horizon and in an effort to stir up developer interest Adobe has announced the  Adobe Flex Developer Derby . It’s a competition (with some rather cool prizes) for developers to take the current beta release of Flex 2.0 and make the best RIA possible. The only problem with this idea is that the competition is open only to residents of the USA and Canada excluding Quebec (they have some funny laws apparently). But all is not lost for the rest of the world, Robin Hilliard (from RocketBoots) has stepped up and announced a competition for us second class netizens. So to this end I turned my messing about with Flex 2.0 into something a little more focused. (more…)