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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 [...]
Conferences, Meetings & Events, Flex in the world, Flex news, Flexer
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, [...]
Conferences, Meetings & Events, Flex news
360|Flex Sessions (18-20 august 2008 @ San Jose, CA) Available With Adobe Media Player
Andrei Ionescu | 21.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

The sessions at 360|Flex Conference (18-20 august 2008 @ San Jose, CA) are available here (on Ted on Flex) and can be seen using Adobe Media Player. So…

download and install Adobe Media Player
open it and go to My Favourites
press Add RSS Feed and paste this: http://sessions.onflex.org/1733261879.xml

Now there should be 15 videos under 360|Flex Conference. [...]
Flex Builder 3, Flex IDE, Flex news
Flex Builder 3.0.1 Update (includes Flex SDK 3.1)
Andrei Ionescu | 21.08.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

On 18th of August Matt Chotin announce the availability of Flex Builder 3.0.1 Update which includes Flex SDK 3.1.
This is what it contains:

bug fixes (jira list here)
support for Flash Player 10 – just base support
support for AIR 1.1
support for Eclipse 3.4

You can update your Flex Builder 3 by selecting Search for Flex Builder Updates… [...]
Flash Player, Flex news
Flash Player 10 Debug is Out
Andrei Ionescu | 18.08.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

Flash Player 10 (“Astro”) Debug version is out. You can find it here: http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flex/sdk/branches/3.0.x/in/player/10/.
I the a previous article I explained how you can build a Flash Player 10 application using Flex SDK and here it is: http://www.flexer.info/2008/05/21/how-to-build-flash-player-10-applications-using-flex-sdk/.
From now on we are looking for new Flash Player 10 applications…
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 [...]
Flash Player, Flex news
Some Stats About Flash Player and Browsers
Andrei Ionescu | 01.08.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Some interesting stats where published by Adobe:

99% of internet users do have Flash Player on their machine (98,8% from Google study)
80% of internet users do have Flash Player version 9.0.115 on their machines
99% of PC internet users do have Flash Player on their machine

This is great news. Almost any computer connected to the internet does [...]
Flex news, RoFUG
Another FXG meeting
Andrei Ionescu | 28.07.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Friday, 25th of July 2008, we had another Romanian Flex User Group meeting. We did meet in a pub, the atmosphere was relaxed. We spoke about Flex/AIR applications, future ones and released ones, and we also spoke about Fx{r} and how can we improve it.
More about it on fxg.ro.
Flash Player, Flex news
Flash Player 10 Beta 2 Released
Andrei Ionescu | 04.07.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Astro is getting closer to a release. A new beta version is out and you can read the announcement on Adobe’s site: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/. Please read also the release notes here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes.html.
What is new? To be short…

Fullscreen Keyboard Access – now you can catch key events for non-printing keys (arrows, shift, enter, tab, space, etc)
Enhanced Audio [...]
Flex news
Flex 4 Codename Gumbo Under Development
Andrei Ionescu | 02.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

The Flex 3 is already released but the guys at Adobe don’t waste their time. They already started to work on Flex 4 – codename Gumbo. The final release is planned for 2009 and the first beta for late 2008.
The promises are:

easy skinning
improved states, effects and layout
backward compatibility
inline states

For more see these links:
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+4
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Enhanced+States+Syntax
Flash, Flash Player, Flex news, RIA, SEO
Google And Yahoo! Are Indexing SWF Files
Andrei Ionescu | 01.07.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

This is a great news! I’ve been waiting for this to happen for a long time. If you don’t believe me that Google is indexing flash try to search on Google by this kind of phrases: “flex filetype:swf“; and you’ll get a list of SWF files that were indexed by Google.
How does Google do this? [...]

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