Do you know live Flex/AIR applications with PHP backend?

I want to create and maintain a list of Flex and AIR applications that use PHP on the server, and are live so any one can see them.  Thus, if you build such applications or you know some, please drop a comment on this post.

I really need your help people! Many thanks :)

October 31, 2008 | Filed Under Others, PHP | 5 Comments 

FlexCamp at Adobe MAX Europe

Here another reason to come to Adobe MAX Milan: we are adding a free FlexCamp to the MAX schedule. The event will be hosted by Giorgio Natili and Adobe User Groups from northern Italy. See you there guys :)

October 31, 2008 | Filed Under Others | Leave a Comment 

Adobe MAX San Francisco breaks 4000 registrations

With still 17 days to MAX San Francisco, we broke the 4000 mark yesterday morning. Last year we had 4300 people. With the current trends, about 90 registrations per day, we can establish a new record.

MAX San Francisco

October 31, 2008 | Filed Under Others | Leave a Comment 

Flash Player 10 and FileReference

Flash Player 10 introduced some user-initiated action requirements (for example, in order to call the method for browse for a file, the user has to initiate this action with a mouse or key press). These were introduced to enhance the security of Flash Player.

If you want to learn more about, here are two great resources: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_uia_requirements.html?devcon=f2 and http://theflashblog.com/?p=463.

Enjoy!

October 29, 2008 | Filed Under AIR, Flex | Leave a Comment 

Adobe MAX San Francisco and Mobile Technologies

This year’s MAX event presents you some good opportunities to learn more about the interesting things we are doing in the mobile realm.

First, you have the “Mobile Summit” – November 16, 2008 at the Marriott from 1pm - 6pm. Join Adobe and our partners — Nokia, Qualcomm®, Verizon, Sony Ericsson, GetJar, Thumbplay®, and Zed — to learn about new opportunities for mobile developers this year. Hear from Adobe partners and key industry players as they present the newest mobile solutions, technologies, and distribution opportunities for mobile developers.  See more here: http://www.eventsadobe.com/mobilesummitmax08/invite.html

Second, you have “Mobile Networking Party” – November 19, 2008 at the Thirsty Bear from 6:15pm-9:30pm. Adobe is hosting a special Mobile Networking Party to allow developers to showcase their mobile applications using our Adobe® Flash® mobile technologies. If you already have a web-based application and are thinking of going mobile, you can also present your idea and get feedback from our industry leaders. More here: http://www.eventsadobe.com/mobilenetworkingparty/invite.html

Finally here are MAX sessions related to mobile solutions and technology:

October 27, 2008 | Filed Under Others | 2 Comments 

MAX Milan is coming fast

Hi there, especially to my European friends! Why? Because I assume most of my friends from U.S., will not be coming to Italy, Milan this December for MAX :D Are you ready to go to MAX? I am looking forward talking with you and maybe drink a beer, or two :)

By the way, I will have two sessions on AIR: Maintaining security with Adobe AIR and Building high performance applications for Adobe AIR.

See you in Milan!

PS. Although I don’t have a session at MAX San Francisco, I will be there. So let’s have a beer or two my friends from the other side of the Atlantic :)

October 24, 2008 | Filed Under Others | Leave a Comment 

Just a teaser for AIR 1.5

My friends from the AIR team created an interesting AIR application that illustrates the coolest features from AIR 1.5. We will present this application at MAX San Francisco; you have to wait a little bit. We will give the source code of the application too, so you can see how was made it. In the same spirit, I will post an article explaining the bits.

Can’t wait!

October 23, 2008 | Filed Under AIR, Others | Leave a Comment 

Flash Security talk in Portugal, this November

If you are serious about Flash security, and you want to find out more from a person who knows what he’s talking about (Peleus Uhley, Senior Security Researcher, Adobe), then you should attend these two sessions:

October 16, 2008 | Filed Under Others | 1 Comment 

Are you a freelancer, or consultant, or agency who has deep knowledge in Flash, Flex, AIR, FMS?

We (I mean the Adobe Evangelists based in Europe) are extremely interested in creating a list with:

that have good knowledge in one or many:

and are located in Central or Eastern Europe.

If you are qualifying to this criteria and you want for free to grow your awareness and probably your business, please contact me either by email (mihai.corlan at adobe dot com or mihai at corlan dot org) or by placing a comment to this post.

LATER UPDATE

Some reader asked some interesting questions:

I definetely encourage each and every one of you to go to Adobe Developer Connect and register there. But, if you are from Eastern Europe, and you are a company or person who has the skills I’ve asked, then I think definetely worth to send me some basic contact info at least.

Regarding the privacy policy and how we intend to share this. I want to talk with each person who will sign up to this program. After we talk and understand exactly what are their skills, I will ask for their permission to recommend them to other persons who are interested in finding people with their skills. I mean, I talk and I meet many people. And sometime I get this question if I know a good Romanian, or Bulgarian,… to recommend for a project involving Video Streaming, or Java and LCDS or something else. So if you don’t want to be recommend it by me or by my colleagues, there is no problem. Don’t send me any contact info.

I hope this clarification helped.

October 15, 2008 | Filed Under Others | 5 Comments 

Flash Player 10, Creative Suite 4 and InContext Editing are out

Finally we can play with the release version of Flash Player 10 (this is a major release as it introduces a bunch of new capabilities: new text engine, pixel bender, 3D transformations, GPU acceleration for graphics and sound, and many more), you can buy Creative Suite 4 and you can try InContext Editing for the first time for free.

I want to talk just a little bit about InContext Editing, because it is a new product and I know many of the people behind this project. Also, I think it is really, really cool. Did I mention about that its user interface uses Flex?

So what is InContext Editing?

Basically, it is a way for normal people to be able to edit their sites. The workflow to get a site that can be edited directly in the browser is:

  1. Developer/Designer creates a site using Dreamweaver CS4, and establishes the regions that can be edited
  2. The site is deployed on the production server
  3. Developer/Designer registers the site with the InContext Editing service. Site owners can then make changes to the site themselves.

There are some advantages to this approach compared to the classic workflow for changing an existent static site or to complex CMS used for a simple website:

  1. The owner of the site doesn’t need to call its web designer each time she wants to update the business phone number
  2. The designer doesn’t need to pause his current work just to change a basic information. Even a simple change can take an hour (searching for the client website, search for FTP credentials, make the change and so on), and the owner of the site will not believe that he is charged for one hour of work.
  3. Finally, for many simple websites a complete CMS (such as Drupal) is to complex to administer for this kind of user.

For the coming months this service is free, so you can try it wherever you are :) If you want to read more about this new service, go here. I will write a dedicated article on this topic in the coming days.

October 15, 2008 | Filed Under Others | 2 Comments 

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