The Flash Builder 4 is here and the CS5 is close

Arti­cles on this blog usu­ally focus on use­ful doc­u­men­ta­tion rather than buzzing around like most blogs on the web.

Once in a while though, we do it. So Flash Builder 4 is finally avail­able ! The pric­ing is around the same as the pre­vi­ous ver­sion, Flex Builder 3. $250 for the stan­dard ver­sion and $700 for the premium.

Among the huge improve­ments in the Flash work­flow, the data-centric, skin­ning and styling fea­tures are just what we needed. Have a look at the grid of fea­tures for more details.

Flash Cat­a­lyst wasn’t men­tioned any­where but I guess it will be part of the CS5 release. Until then you can still play around with Cat­a­lyst beta 2.

Talk­ing about buzz-like news, Adobe made a count­down for the CS5 launch with a wooden font. Now 16 days : 01 hours : 08 min­utes : 21 sec­onds. You got that much time to buy a new 64-bit com­puter for After Effects CS5. Yes, Adobe asks you to con­tribute to the ram­pant con­sumerism. What will your answer be ?