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Adobe AIR Challenge final is over
Andrei Ionescu | 26.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

In the last months Adobe AIR Challenge has been taking place. Yesterday we had the final: 3 AIR applications fought for the prizes. Those applications where:

Flair Builder – Cristi Pascu
MiniBuilder – Victor Dramba
Phitodo – Alexandru Ghiura

All three applications did win at least one prize on a category… and the categories where:

User experience and Design
Application Architecture
Novelty/Innovation
Value [...]
Adobe, Flex resources
Twitter Lists with Adobe People and More
Andrei Ionescu | 07.11.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

As you may already know, recently, Twitter has added lists. Now you can make a list of friends/people you know and follow. Looking through some lists I found the following very useful lists of people:
http://twitter.com/ddura/adobeevangelists
http://twitter.com/rlux/adobe-community
http://twitter.com/rlux/adobe-staff
http://twitter.com/lkilpatrick/adobe-ug-people/members
http://twitter.com/mrmass/flashers
The Flexer list of authors is here: http://twitter.com/fx_r/authors
If you know other interesting lists regarding Flex, Flash, Adobe, etc. please add them [...]
Adobe, Components, Flash
Adobe Launched Squiggly Spell Checker Component
Andrei Ionescu | 04.10.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

Recently Adobe launched a new component: Squiggly. What is Squiggly? As they are saying…
Squiggly is a spell checking engine for Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe AIR®. The Squiggly library allows you to easily add spell checking functionality in any Flex 3 based text control.
Worth mentioning that the distribution package consists of a utility for building [...]
Adobe, Conferences, Meetings & Events, News
Adobe Dead Drop MAX LA 2009
Andrei Ionescu | 02.10.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I think everyone knows about the Adobe Dead Drop contests that Lee Brimelow organizes. Now he will do one more for MAX LA 2009, and this time the prizes are even bigger than before – prize value is over $7,000. The games starts noon on Tuesday, October 6th.
You can read more going to adobedeaddrop.com. The [...]
Adobe, News
Adobe to Acquire Omniture
Andrei Ionescu | 16.09.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Yesterday, 15th of September 2009, Adobe announced the acquisition of Omniture. I guess that Adobe is well known and if you don’t know to much about Omniture, this is a short description:
Omniture, Inc. is a leading provider of online business optimization software, enabling customers to manage and enhance online, offline and multi-channel business initiatives.
For [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news, Flex resources
Adobe is Looking for Flex Developers to Participate in Research Study
Andrei Ionescu | 15.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Yesterday, Matt Chotin was writing on the Flex Team blog (see here) that flex developers are needed to take part in research studies.
Adobe is interested how the professionals are using their tools, and especially about the work flow of flex developers. So you need to be a flex developer to qualify for this research [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Flex resources
Adobe TV
Andrei Ionescu | 07.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Few days ago I found out about Adobe TV website which you may already know about. This site is about Adobe’s technologies explained using videos. Photographers, designers, video professionals and developers can use this to learn about Adobe’s products and technologies. There are lots and lots of presentations and tutorials regarding Flex, AIR, LiveCycle and [...]
How to
How To Get an Adobe Certification
Andrei Ionescu | 03.07.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Some times ago I started to get interested to get an Adobe Certification. I started reading documents on Adobe’s website and started to ask people at Adobe and community people that already got some certifications. This is what I found…
Available Certifications
There are 3 (three) types of certifications:

per product certification: Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified [...]
Books, Flex resources
Adobe Developer Library
Stelian Crisan | 22.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Adobe Developer Library is a co-publishing partnership between O’Reilly Media and Adobe Systems, Inc.
Here you can buy best titles on flex development, it’s the best place to start if you need a book in order to learn about RIA (rich internet application) ,what Flex can do and how to do it.
So go directly to the [...]
Flex IDE, Flex news, Flex resources
Adobe Flex Builder Linux Public Alpha
Stelian Crisan | 16.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

This is the first release of Flex Builder to support Desktop Linux. This version is based on several features from Flex Builder 3 (codenamed “Moxie”). It includes project creation, code coloring, code hints, compilation, the Ajax Bridge, Find All References, and debugging. Not all Flex Builder 3 features are supported, so be sure to check [...]
Flex IDE, Flex news, Flex resources
Flex Builder 3 beta 2
Stelian Crisan | 16.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

This near-feature-complete Flex Builder 3 beta 2 release will provide you with an opportunity to explore powerful new features, communicate early feedback, and test existing Flex applications with the latest Flex 3 framework.
FAQ

What did Adobe announce regarding Flex?
On October 1, 2007 Adobe announced the public availability of Flex 3 beta 2. This is the second [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news
Flex Camp – Bucharest 2007, octomber 10
Stelian Crisan | 11.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Adobe Romania invite around 80 flash and flex programmers to first Flex Camp in Romania.
What can I say … cool … a lot of new stuff. New products, a new IDE, we see some AIR stuff and results, also we got the feeling that Flex we be developed from now on for different user need [...]

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