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December 2008

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Flex in the world, Flex news, Flexer
Adobe MAX 2008 Europe – Sneaks Peaks
Andrei Ionescu | 10.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Adobe Sneaks Peaks… means things Adobe are researching… and maybe developing in the future.
Three categories were presented and their features

Client

RTMFP application level multi-cast in Flash Player – Media streaming between Flash Players
Adobe Nitro Platform – Building widgets on Flash (Serge Jespers)
Codename Durango – http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/durango/

Services

Connecting LiveCycle and Creative Suite – Media Orchestrator – Video production workflow
Meer [...]
Flexer
For a Better Community
Andrei Ionescu | 09.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

For a Better Community, our blog has started a Fx{r} Community!
Group Fx{r} based on the need for communication among web developers, and try to support members as a means of quickly solving various problems or situations that require a technical answer, endorsed or based on experience from other virtual community and more.
This group is a [...]
Flash, Flex in the world, Flex news
Adobe MAX 2008 Europe – MAX Awards
Andrei Ionescu | 08.12.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

As we promised we are coming back with an article about the MAX Awards in Milano. The awards were structured in three categories: Design, Development and Envision.
Here are the nominees…
Design

Lacoste Future Tennis (http://www.lacoste-future.com)
Audi A5 by GT London (http://www.rhythmoflines.co.uk)
Alfa Romeo Experience 159 by Soleil Noir (http://www.experience159.com)

… and the winner is: Alfa Romeo Experience 159 by Soleil [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news, Flexer
Wednesday @ Adobe MAX 2008 Europe
Andrei Ionescu | 06.12.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Our last day at Max was like this. In the text bellow you can find news and interesting things that we considered that worth mentioning them here.

Using the Text Layout Framework (Justin Everett-Church)

new text engine parallel with the TextField engine
text blocks can contain: text, groups that can contain images
inline images with events
ligatures
for flash developers: download [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news, Flexer
Tuesday @ Adobe MAX 2008 Europe
Andrei Ionescu | 05.12.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

The second day at Adobe MAX was a full one. We attended at the following sessions and labs:

Developer best practices with Flex (James Polanco)

FXG exported by Fireworks, Illustrator and Flash Catalyst can be used in Flex
FXG based on SVG
Flex 4 new skinning architecture
Spark (is the official name of Gumbo)
Catalyst will integrate version control tools
Catalyst is [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news, Flexer
First Day @ Adobe MAX 2008 Europe
Andrei Ionescu | 02.12.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

The first day at MAX (yesterday, 01-12-2008)… Lots of people… about 1300! The biggest Adobe MAX in Europe until now.
We attended at the following sessions:

Opening General Session, the opening keynote

iPlayer by BBC (Anthony Rose)
Fiat Eco Drive (Rick Williams and Adam Creeger)
Herald Tribune Reader by New York Times (Ted Pattrick)
Adobe Wave
Tour de Flex
Cocomo and [...]

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