<p>Adobe is betting real hard on RIAs now. After Flex and <span class="caps">AIR</span>, they are getting &#8220;Thermo&#8221; ready. Thermo is a &#8220;rich internet application design tool&#8221;. It&#8217;s kind of a Flex, but for designers. It&#8217;s pretty much graphical based (so that designers don&#8217;t need to code one single line) and integrates perfectly with Photoshop, Fireworks and the rest of the CS3. This might be a enormous advantage for Thermo to be chosen instead of Microsoft Expression Web.</p>
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<p>But if you&#8217;re thinking it&#8217;s a designer-only tool, you&#8217;re wrong! Thermo&#8217;s code-view is actually the full Flex Builder application, so programmers can have fun with this tool almost as much as designers.</p>

<p>You can read more about Thermo in <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/adobe_thermo_ria_design_tool.php">Read/Write Web</a>.</p>

<p>Being a big fan of graphical designing of applications, like Visual Basic and so, I can&#8217;t wait to try this new <span class="caps">IDE</span>. I don&#8217;t quite like using Flash, but I believe gorgeous applications will come out from this in no time!</p>