Upcoming webinars on the Flash Platform

The summer is almost over (at least in the northern hemisphere :D) which means you are in one of these two situations: either you just came back from vacation or you’re about to take one. Either way, I think you’ll find (some of) the webinars we are doing this month quite interesting. As usually, they are free; you just have to sign up and show up. A word of warning: because all four of these webinars are delivered by EMEA platform evangelist, we decided to schedule them in such a way that works for Europeans.

Here is the list:

Building Multi-Screen / Interconnected apps for Android and desktops (Mihai Corlan) – Friday, Augst 20
Summer Cocktail: Doctrine 2, Zend Framework, Flex, and Flash Builder (Mihai Corlan)- Tuesday, August 24
Advanced P2P programming in Flash (Tom Krcha) – Friday, August 27
Presentation Model pattern with Flex and Swiz Framework (Piotr Walczyszyn) – Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Enjoy!

August 17, 2010 | Filed Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

Flash Coffee Bucharest

I know it has been way too hot lately, especially here in Bucharest. I have good news. First, next week the weather is expected to be cooler. And second, I plan to host a Flash Coffee Meetup in Bucharest! The event will take place next Tuesday (June 22nd) at Grand Cafe Galleron (near La Mama restaurant, P-ta Romana) starting at 5PM.

There are only 15 tickets so hurry up and use this link to register. I’ll pay for the coffee and bring an Android phone with Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR installed on it. Thus we can enjoy a good cup of coffee on a cold day (something that we’ll pretty soon miss :D) and talk about the latest Flash Platform and mobile device news.

You can register here. See you next Tuesday.

June 17, 2010 | Filed Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

Adobe MAX Awards 2010

The Adobe MAX Awards 2010 competition is open (the deadline for project submission is August 13th – hope you are not superstitious :D). This year’s categories are:

Advertising and Branding
Digital Publishing
Enterprise/Government RIAs
Entertainment
Multiscreen
Social Computing

Good luck!

June 15, 2010 | Filed Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010

This August (25th – 26th) if you live in India and you work in the IT field then you really should consider attending Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010 in Bangalore, India.

This is a two day event, and more than 2000 people are expected with tens of sessions and international speakers. You can read more here and you can register here (you can save 60% if you register before June 25th). If you want to propose a session then hurry up because the window is closing on June 21st.

June 14, 2010 | Filed Under Conferences | 1 Comment

MAX 2010: Call for Speakers

The time has passed at warp speed and MAX 2010 is closing in. It’s only natural to open the Call for Speakers. So why do you wait? Just go here and claim your spot for glory! The call for speakers will close on May 3rd.

Later Update: Almost forgot to tell you: this year my fellow evangelist Ryan Stewart is the man in charge of the content. Because he’s all smiles, please guys, submit a lot of content! Let’s give him a run for the money :) And if you want to see more topics on Flex and PHP, we definitely have the man inside :D

April 15, 2010 | Filed Under Conferences | 2 Comments

Flex Camp in Cluj-Napoca

On April 19th, Transylvania Flex User Group from Cluj-Napoca, Romania will have a Flex Camp. If you are interested you can read more here and you can register here.

April 14, 2010 | Filed Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

Building a Drupal module with Flex: Fx Gallery

Maybe your PHP is good, as good as Bruce Lee’s Kung Fu. Maybe your Flex skills are excellent or perhaps you are a beginner. Either way, you may be wondering what you can do with PHP and Flex. Well, don’t wonder anymore! Just come to my webinar and bring your friends with you.

This Friday (February 5th) I will do a webinar about Fx Gallery. What is Fx Gallery? It is a Drupal module for displaying images. The idea behind this project is pretty simple: there are many popular PHP projects (CMS, blog and forum platforms, electronic shops and so on) and probably for any one you could create a new module/plug-in that uses the expressiveness of Flex to bring more value for its users.

I developed this module together with my friends from Fx{r}, Stelian and Andrei. This gallery displays pictures from Flickr, Picasa, and Drupal installations. It was built using the Flex 4 framework, and a little help from Flash Catalyst. At the time of this writing we are cleaning up the code in order to make it available as an open source project. Thus anyone will be able to see how it was made or extend the module by adding new features.

At the webinar you can see the module in action, learn about its architecture, and hear how it was made.

The event is free, though you have to register here.

February 1, 2010 | Filed Under Conferences | 5 Comments

Mark Anders in da house

Next Wednesday (January 27th) at our office we will have a cool event. It will not be a typical technical event with slides because the host will be none other than Mark Anders. He has many stories about Flex, Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder. So, if you are in Bucharest next week and you want to know more about the Flash Platform, especially internal stuff from one of the people who started the whole Platform, be there. The event is free, though you have to register here.

Mark Anders led the creation of .NET, Flex Builder, and Flash Catalyst (yes, before joining Adobe he used to work for Microsoft).

January 21, 2010 | Filed Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

Webinar: using PHP and Flash for developing Rich Internet Applications

On December 2nd, together with Roy Ganor from Zend, I will host an e-seminar about PHP and the Flash Platform. We will show you how you can create a Rich Internet Application using the Flex framework, Illustrator, Flash Catalyst, and Flash Builder 4. Then we will show you how to connect the Flex application to a PHP backend and how easy is to debug the PHP and Flex code using Zend Studio 7.1 and Flash Builder 4.

You can register for free here. The webinar will start at 6:00 PM Central European Time (9:00AM Pacific Standard Time) on December 2nd.

LATER UPDATE:

You can download the slides from here, and next week the recording will be available you can watch the recording over here (you need to have a Zend account).

December 1, 2009 | Filed Under Conferences, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst, Flex, PHP | 8 Comments

Transylvania Flex Group hosts a new RIA event

On November 21st in Cluj, Romania there will be a new RIA event hosted by the local Flex User Group. The name of the event is Flex vs Silverlight vs AJAX. My friend who organizes the PHP Geek meetings from Cluj, Mihai Brehar will be the moderator.

The event starts at 10:30 AM and ends at 2.20PM. Although the event is free, you have to register. The event’s location is Betfair Romania, 69-71 Brancusi street, Cluj-Napoca.