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Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional for Unemployed Developers
Andrei Ionescu | 23.04.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

In the previous months some of Adobe evangelists handed out licensees of Flex Builder for people without job in order to help them get a job by reconverting them. Ben Forta said on his blog:
We did not launch a full program for this, just a grassroots initiative thought up and delivered by your friendly Adobe [...]
Conferences, Meetings & Events, Flex in the world, Flex news
No Adobe MAX Europe in 2009
Andrei Ionescu | 15.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

As many of you know Adobe MAX is the biggest event organized by Adobe. Until this year Adobe MAX had two locations in two different time intervals: one in North America and one in Europe. It is hard to say that this year Adobe MAX Europe won’t take place which is a sad thing.
Adobe MAX [...]
Conferences, Meetings & Events, Flex in the world, Flex news
New Flex Event
Andrei Ionescu | 14.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Although it sounds like Adobe added new events in the Flex SDK the article is about a new Flex/Flash/Actionscript meeting. We had great FlexCamps in Romania (the last one in Timisoara) but this time we have a big Abode event. It is about Flex/Flash/AIR/Web technologies/RIA/ColdFusion and more. People from Adobe Romania says that it will [...]
Flex in the world, Made in Flex, RIA
Sumo Paint Version 1.0 is Out
Andrei Ionescu | 22.01.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Yesterday (21st Jan 2009) Sumo Paint version 1.0 was released. In my opinion this is the best online Photoshop. And it is FREE!
Just some of its features:

Layers with blending mode
Layer effects
Shape tools
Brushes
Clone stamp
Filters
Symetry tool
Gravity

More about features: http://sumopaint.com/web/#/features/
A new video with Sumo Paint in action can be viewed bellow:

You can access the application here: http://www.sumopaint.com/app
Sumo Paint [...]
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 [...]
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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Flexer Goes to MAX Milano
Andrei Ionescu | 26.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Hello everybody! We are going to MAX Milano – Me, Stelian and Virgil (a.k.a webdev.andrei, webdev.stelian and qbic). We hope to meet many of you there.

For those who don’t know where the conference will be the map will show its exact location.

Our selected schedules are bellow.
webdev.stelian has chosen…
Monday, December 1, [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news, Flexer
Flex Camp Triangle – How Was It?
Andrei Ionescu | 10.11.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

As you know on 6th of November we had Flex Camp Triangle (see also myadobe.ro). A few days has passed and after some “cold thinking” I’m writing some thoughts on about the conference.
It has been a great Flex Camp and the focus was on the newly launched Flash Player 10 and what can be done [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news, Flexer
We Salute You From Flex Camp Triangle
Virgil Cristea | 06.11.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

The Flex Camp Triangle is about to begin and the FX{r} team is present. The topics on the agenda are:

Registering
Opening
Keynote Matt Chotin
Keynote follow up
Mihai Corlan – Why/Where AIR – Air app use cases
Cristian Pascu – FlairBuilder
Break
Dragos Dascalita – Boost your UI with AIR
Mihai Pricope – Bending Pixels and more
Victor Dramba – Cabanova
The end

More photos bellow.
More [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news, RoFUG
Flex Triangle Bucharest – Flex Camp on 06.11.2008
Andrei Ionescu | 10.10.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

Next Flex Camp Bucharest Romania will take place at Adobe’s Offices on 6th November 2008 and is called Flex Triangle Bucharest. New thing is that in the same time two other cities will have Flex Camps: Vienna and Hamburg (that is why is called triangle).
Five presentations are available and are:

Project presentation – details, problems encountered, [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news, Made in Flex, RIA
HTML Editor in Flex?
Andrei Ionescu | 06.08.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

HTML Editor in Flex? Can we say that squarespace has managed to do that? Although isn’t a complex one it is a start. What is next? We can think that in the future Dreamweaver may become a web RIA. Or some other HTML Editors will be created using Flex and AIR.
For some developers this sounds [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news
Flex Won “Best of Open Source Developer Tools”
Andrei Ionescu | 06.08.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

This month, Best of Open Source Software Awards 2008 had ended and Flex has won “Best of Open Source Developer Tools” (see here)! This means that Flex framework is becoming more mature and is starting to be wide spread.
More and more web applications are built using Flex and Actionscript, more complex, more user friendly and [...]

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