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Flash Player Version Penetration
Andrei Ionescu | 27.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Last year on 1st of August I presented some stats on Flash Player Penetration. Now we have some new stats regarding the versions of Flash Player.
What to notice?

That in a few month Flash Player 10 will overcome Flash Player 9.
That Japan is the fastest adopting country of Flash Player 10.
That in half of an [...]
Flash, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, Flex 4 SDK, Flex news, Flexer
Bucharest Pit Stop Passed
Andrei Ionescu | 11.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Yesterday (10.06.2009) at Adobe Systems Romania offices took place the Adobe User Groups Tour – Bucharest Pit Stop event. The event was a success – great things presented. Even all tickets were sold out long time before the event only 40 persons showed up at the event.

The event was about new beta products that [...]
Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, Flex IDE, Flex in the world, Flex news
Flash Catalyst & Flash Builder are Now Public Beta
Andrei Ionescu | 01.06.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Starting today, Flash Catalyst & Flash Builder 4 are in public beta.

You can download them from Adobe’s site by following these links:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/ for Flash Catalyst
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashbuilder4/ for Flash Builder

If didn’t hear about them, Flash Catalyst is:
…a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding.
And Flash Builder 4 is the [...]
Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, Flex 4 SDK, Flex news, Flexer
Registration for Adobe User Group Tour 2009 – Flex 4 Tour – Bucharest Pit Stop Now Available
Andrei Ionescu | 27.05.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

As we said in the previous article about the Adobe User Group Tour 2009 – Flex 4 Tour – Bucharest Pit Stop the registration is now available. It doesn’t cost anything but we need it because the seats are limited. Please see bellow.

The agenda is not done yet but in the next days we will [...]
Flash, Flash Player, Flex 2, Flex Builder 3, Flex IDE, Flex in the world, Flex news
Flex Builder Rebranded into Flash Builder
Andrei Ionescu | 21.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Many of you may already know about the rebranding of Flex Builder. It will no longer be named Flex Builder but Flash Builder. Adobe took this action in order to make the Flash name (and platform) a stronger one. Flex will not disappear but it will remain as framework. Neither Flash IDE. I know many [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news, Flexer, Fun, RoFUG
Adobe Developer Day Bucharest – We Were There
Andrei Ionescu | 20.05.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Yesterday (19th of May) we’ve been attending the Adobe Developer Day in Bucharest. It took place at Intercontinental Hotel in various places because beside the general session there were other bootcamps taking place in the same time. Attendance was ok at least in the morning although more people could attend to the event. Interesting is [...]
Flex Builder 3, Flex IDE, Flex in the world, Flex news, Flex resources
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 Builder 3, Flex news, Flex resources
Flex SDK 3.3 is out
Andrei Ionescu | 11.03.09 | Permalink | Comment?

If you didn’t know by now, the version 3.3 of Flex SDK is released. You can download it from here.
As Mihai Corlan from Adobe said…
Basically it is about bug fixes, and including the last players. Last week the AIR 1.5.1 was launched, it was natural to come with this SDK too.
…no new features.
The bugs [...]
Conferences, Meetings & Events, Flex news
Flex Camp Timisoara – 14th of March 2009
Andrei Ionescu | 23.02.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Next FlexCamp Romania will take place in Timisoara on 14th of March 2009. The schedule is complete and the registration is open.
10:30 – 11:00
Opening session: Mihai Corlan, Mihai Pricope, Cornel Creanga from Adobe Romania
11:00 – 11:30
Geeky Flash: unorthodox practices to program for Flash Player – PixelBender & Alchemy
Presenter: Mihai Pricope from Adobe Romania
11:30 [...]
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 [...]

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