HBase/Hadoop Meetup in Adobe Bucharest Office

If you live in Bucharest or close enough and you do stuff with HBase or Hadoop you shouldn’t miss this event. On May 31 we will host a meeting and you’ll have a chance to meet, talk, and listen Lars George of Cloudera (Cloudera Solution Architect for Europe).

Here’s the agenda:

HBase intro – Lars George
Big Data with HBase and Hadoop at Adobe
Talk 3 – TBD
Lightning talks (10m each)
HBase status and roadmap – Lars George
Q&A/Open discussion
Beer at Rock’n Pasta or downtown

If you want to speak at this event drop a comment here and if you want to register go here. You have to hurry up because there are only 29 seats left.

PS. In case you didn’t know we are doing lots of stuff with HBase/Hadoop at Adobe and some of this is happening in the Bucharest office. So you’ll have a chance to meet our engineers and talk to them about real life use cases.

May 26, 2011 | Filed Under Others | Leave a Comment

Adobe’s Evangelist Super Blog

Greg Wilson seems to have a habit of coding while sleeping. Of course he won’t admit it (he says that one night he wasn’t able to sleep and …). It really doesn’t matter how he did it, what matters is that if you want to follow all Adobe Evangelists (and I mean all of them) you can use this link: http://adobeevangelists.com/superblog/ (it has an RSS feed too).

Now you don’t have any excuse for missing our posts :)

May 25, 2011 | Filed Under Others | 2 Comments

Adobe Developer Week – June 20-24

Next month, between June 20 and 24 we will host 17 webinars. The topics range from building desktop applications to mobile, from using PHP with Flex to Java and Flex. Here is the complete list of webinars:

Introduction to Flex 4.5 and Flash Builder 4.5
What’s new in Flex 4.5
New Features in Flash Builder 4.5
Flex and PHP Integrated Development with Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP
Build Your First Mobile Application With Flex 4.5
Architecting Flex Applications For Re-Use Across Web, Desktop and Mobile
Multi-Density and Multi-Platform Authoring for Smart Phones and Tablets With Flex 4.5 SDK
Migrating from Flex 3 to Flex 4.5: Understanding Changes from Halo to Spark
Creating Expressive Applications with Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst
Building Mobile Applications for BlackBerry Playbook
Coding Productivity Features in Flash Builder 4.5
Next Generation Application Development for the Enterprise
Building Data Driven Flex and Java Applications
Flex and BlazeDS Integration with Spring
Maximizing Flex Application Performance (Mobile and Desktop)
Creating Performant Skins and Item Renderers for Mobile Applications
Anatomy of an Enterprise Mobile Application Built with Flex 4.5

If you are interested in any of these topics, go ahead and register yourself here.

May 24, 2011 | Filed Under Others | Leave a Comment

Slides from Flash Camp Milan

As I promised, here are the slides from the two sessions I had at Flash Camp Milan – WHYMCA. And from here you can download a tutorial and five projects to help you get started with Flex Mobile development for Android, iOS, and PlayBook.

Mobile Development With Flash Platform

Getting startedwithflashmobiledevelopment

Thank you guys!

May 20, 2011 | Filed Under Others | Leave a Comment

SourceMate for Flash Builder 4.5

It is always exciting to see how our partners build on top of our ecosystem. This time the excitement is about SourceMate 3.0, which was released recently. This release targets Flash Builder 4.5, and once it’s installed the hardcore developer side of your personality will be delighted with:

Code generation (organize imports, generate AsDoc comments, etc)
Smart refactoring (change method signature, extract interface/method/constant/variable/parameter/class/superclass, disable all trace statements)
Swiz framework support (Swiz project creation wizard, new instance wizard, beans view, bean autocomplete, new bean wizard, events view, event handler autocomplete)
Localization support (externalize strings, resource bundle editor, automatic translation, etc).
Miscellaneous (todo/fixme/XXX task markers, generate Ant build.xml from project settings, medata tag validation, E4X expression console, etc)

Now go and download the product (you have a 30-day trial ) or see the screencasts to better understand what it’s all about.

May 16, 2011 | Filed Under Others | 8 Comments

Flash Player 10.3 for desktop and mobile is out

We just released Flash Player 10.3 for desktop and mobile devices (including support for Android 3.1). You can download the desktop player from here, and for Android devices, just go to Android Market on your device.

What’s new in this version? Here are the main things:

Acoustic Echo Cancellation – this is one of the coolest features, because you can now create high quality collaborative or chat apps that deliver excellent sound quality without a headset. Now, Flash Player 10.3 supports acoustic echo cancellation, noise suppression, voice activity detection, and automatic compensation for various mic input levels.
Integration with browser privacy controls for managing local storage – Flash Player 10.3 integrates the controls for local storage with the browser’s privacy settings in Firefox 4, IE 8 or higher, and future release of Safari and Chrome.
Native Control Panel – you can access the Flash Player privacy, security, and storage settings right from the Control Panel/System Preferences of your computer (Windows, Mac, and Linux).
Media Measurement – this feature enables companies to understand how their videos are distributed and consumed and to collect this data in real-time. There is a new set of open APIs that can be used to implement video analytics.
Auto-Update Notifications for Mac OS – support for automatic notifications of Flash Player updates on Mac OS.

This is not the only thing we launched today. If you go to the Adobe Labs you’ll find a new release of a preview version of Flash Player that has these features:

Stage 3D (AKA “Molehill”) – 3D Hardware accelerated 3D API
G.711 audio compression for telephony
H.264/AVC SW Encode for camera encoding
Support for JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
Socket Progress Events
Pause/sleep/resume Events
Secure random number generator
TLS (Transport Layer Security) sockets
TLS socket policy file

No go and install these and have lots of fun!

May 13, 2011 | Filed Under Others | 1 Comment

Custom Hardware + Flash Platform = Great Customer Experience

In today’s crowded consumer market many companies are looking for ways to differentiate their services and thus attract more customers while retaining the existing ones. The application I will talk about in this post is a great example of how you can enhance customer’s buying experience in a market that is highly competitive: the Telecom industry.

But first, watch this video:

The application was created by B-Reel (a Swedish company) for the 3 Telecom provider in Sweden. By using a custom hardware with a Flash application running on top of it, 3 Telecom operators can offer an experience that is very close to in-shop service for customers who are looking to buy a new terminal.

Now, if this is not cool… What do you think?

April 5, 2011 | Filed Under Flash Platform, Others | 4 Comments

Two cool community projects: RIAForge.org and Jenkins – CI for AS projects

In case you haven’t heard of RIAForge.org I urge you to take a look. This project is maintained by Raymon Camdem and you will find open source projects built on top of Adobe technologies. Among the usual suspects, like AIR projects (about 95 for now), Flex (153 projects), or Flash (94 projects) you’ll find projects that build upon ColdFusion, Flash Builder, Dreamweaver, Photoshop just to name a few.

The second project I wanted to tell you about is a continuous integration system for Flex and ActionScript projects that uses Jerkins (formerly known as Hudson). This project was launched by the Slovakia Adobe User Group and it is maintained by Michal Gron. Bravo guys!

If you have open source ActionScript or Flex projects you can have them added to this service. So far you’ll find there AS3 Signals, AS3Corelib, Flixel, Mate framework, Parsley, PicasaFlash API, PushButton Engine, Robotlegs, and Swiz.

PS. Thanks to Juraj Michálek for pointing out these goodies :)

March 10, 2011 | Filed Under Others | 1 Comment

Are you building apps for the PlayBook tablet?

I know there are a lot of people from the Flash community who are working on applications for the PlayBook tablet. I’m one of them too :D. And there are many others who are curious about what we are building.

So here I go with a request:

if you are in the process of building a PlayBook application, drop a comment saying this and maybe an update once you’ve published the app in the store
if your application was already accepted in the store, drop a comment with a link to the app page and maybe some other comments/feedback

Thanks in advance!

March 9, 2011 | Filed Under Others | 20 Comments

Flash Player 10.3 beta available on Adobe Labs

Last night, we released the beta version of Flash Player 10.3 on Adobe Labs for Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can grab the bits from here and yes, both debug and non-debug players versions are available.

So what’s new in this release? Well, actually, there’s a lot to talk about:

Acoustic Echo Cancellation – this is one of the coolest features, because, you can create now high quality collaborative or chat apps that deliver excellent sound quality without a headset. Now, Flash Player 10.3 supports acoustic echo cancellation, noise suppression, voice activity detection, and automatic compensation for various mic input levels.
Integration with browser privacy controls for managing local storage – Flash Player 10.3 integrates the controls for local storage with the browser’s privacy settings in Firefox 4, IE 8 or higher, and future release of Safari and Chrome.
Native Control Panel – you can access the Flash Player privacy, security, and storage settings right from the Control Panel/System Preferences of your computer (Windows, Mac, and Linux).
Media Measurement – this feature enables companies to understand how their videos are distributed and consumed and to collect this data in real-time. There is a new set of open APIs that can be used to implement video analytics.
Auto-Update Notifications for Mac OS – support for automatic notifications of Flash Player updates on Mac OS.

So go to the Adobe Labs page, download the installer, give it a try, and talk back – you can discuss the features on the forum and you can report bugs here.

March 8, 2011 | Filed Under Others | 2 Comments

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