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Marco Casario

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Entrepreneur, Flex and AIR expert, RIA Expert, Speaker, Trainer, Author


Areas of Expertise:
  • Marketing
  • Sales
  • Entrepreneurism
  • Speaking
  • Technology
  • Flex
  • LiveCycle Data Services
  • BlazeDS
  • AIR
  • JEE
  • Actionscript
  • Flash
  • Flash Lite
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing

Biography

Marco Casario has been passionate about informatics since he was little more than a child and used to program games in Basic for Commodore 64 before dedicating himself to innovative projects for the web using Flash and Director (as far back as versions 3 and 5). In 2005, Marco founded Comtaste, a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet Applications and the convergence between the web and the world of mobile devices -- MobyMobile and YouThru are representative of their recent work.

He is founder of the biggest worldwide Flash Lite User Group and of AUG Italy, a reference point for the Italian community of Adobe users, in which he carries out the role of Channel Manager for the section dedicated to Flex (AUG Italy Flex Gala).

He is author of the following book project:
AIR Cookbook (O'Reilly)
Advanced AIR Applications (FriendsOfED)
The Essential Guide to AIR with Flash CS4
Flex Solutions: Essential Tecniques for Flex 3 developers (FOED)
Other co-author and technical editor's jobs are:
Professional Flex 2
Essential Flash 8
Flash Application for mobile devices

Speaking Engagements:
MAX Europe 2008
MAX San Francisco 2008
FlashOnTheBeach 2008
FlexCamp London
MultiMania 2008 Belgium
FITC 2008
360Flex Europe
AJAXWorld Conference New York 2008
O'Reilly Web 2.0 Summit
Adobe MAX 2007: Extending Flex Components
AdobeLive 2007

Books

Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook
by David Tucker , Marco Casario , Koen De Weggheleire , Rich Tretola
November 2008
Print: $44.99
Ebook: $31.99
Bundle: $58.49
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Blog

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Marco's blog posts are hosted at:
http://casario.blogs.com

NVIDIA and Adobe together for optimizing the Flash Player graphic accelleration

June 24 2009

Another good partnership for the Flash Player enhancement has been announced from NVIDIA and Adobe: NVIDIA and Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that they are collaborating as part of the Open Screen Project to optimize and enable Adobe® Flash® Player, a key component of the Adobe Flash Platform, to leverage GPU… read more

Adobe AIR has been installed on over 200 million computers in just 16 months

June 16 2009

I've missed the Flash Camp Keynote in San Francisco where Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch mentioned that AIR reached over 200 million installs. The Adobe AIR Team blog wrote that the Acrobat.com application provided with Adobe Reader continues to be one of the most popular applications. Unfortunately in Italy AIR applications… read more

Spring Certification Training in Rome

June 06 2009

Comtaste, the italian Spring Training Center, is organizing and hosting a Spring Certification course in Rome. This is a great opportunity to learn more and get certified on Spring framework that is now more integrated in BlazeDS and Livecycle DS. In fact SpringSource and Adobe started a partnership with the… read more

Learn more on Flash Catalyst, Flex 4 SDk and Flash Builder 4 with free eseminar

June 03 2009

Adobe has planned three free online seminars next week that will walk through the new features of Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst. (thanks to Mike Potter for the news) Here's the schedule of the events: Adobe® Flash Builder 4 Beta (formerly Flex Builder) for PHP developers › Tuesday, June 9,… read more

Adobe's New Flex Presentation Tool: Acrobat Presentation

May 28 2009

I've just discovered (don't know how old it is) this new presentation web tool released by Adobe on Acrobat.com Labs. Acrobat Presentation is a Flex application that adds to Adobe's online collaborative offerings (with Buzzword). Presentation allows you to create slides using the PowerPoint metaphor with the following features: read more

Amethyst Beta 5 adds Flex refactoring in the last release

May 27 2009

Amethyst Beta 5, the Visual Studio .NET IDE for Flex development, has been released. This new release adds some cool features for refactoring code such as: read more

Pantaste, an open source library to create Flex/AIR-based customized start page

May 25 2009

Comtaste has just released its second open source project named Pantaste. The library has been developed a couple of years ago, we've started working in Flex 2, but we did not find the time to make the final things, add the documentation, the ASDoc and so on. PanTaste is an… read more

Why the Flex Builder 4 renaming to Flash Builder is good to me

May 18 2009

So I'm back from a trip to Tokyo and the first news I read is that Flex Builder 4 (codename Gumbo) will be renamed to Flash Builder ! Ryan have written an explanatory post (read the full "Flex Builder “Gumbo” is Being Renamed Flash Builder" article)about the motivations that drove… read more

Flash on the Beach 09 ticket to the lowest price ever

May 15 2009

Don't wait too long and take the lowest promotion ever for the Flash On The Beach 2009. Flash on the Beach 09 tickets will go on sale on Monday at 10:00AM UK time. We have reduced hundreds of tickets to the lowest price ever. The first 50 conference tickets will… read more

Macromedia Flash's books revival (aka my first Flash's books)

April 23 2009

While tidying up my library in the past days I've found some very old books I've used to study my first topics in the multimedia/web development filed. I've discovered a book on Director 5, Perl, HTML 3 and the follwoing Macromedia Flash books: Flash 3 Web Animation (by Coriolis Press),… read more

Google App Engine is unveiling its second language: Java

April 19 2009

Only today I've discovered that Goolge added support to Java for its App Engine. This is a great news for the Java community. From the Google announcement: This release includes an early look at our Java runtime, integration with Google Web Toolkit, and a Google Plugin for Eclipse, giving you… read more

Creating and accessing pop- up menus in AIR applications with Flash CS4

April 16 2009

Reading my previous AIR tutorials, you’ve worked with menus that are associated with tangible elements of your applications, such as the following: Context menus that are activated on objects on the stage Context menus associated with icons in the system tray or dock bar Menus associated with windows and menus of the application… read more

It's time to start learning Spring to integrate Flex and BlazeDS with robust server-side services

April 09 2009

Spring is one of my favourite frameworks. It's an open source framework that helps a lot the developers' life to make it easier. Thanks to the Inversion of Control (IoC) pattern that Spring uses, it will save a lot of time in developing. Luckily SpringSource and Adobe started a partnership with… read more

Flex 4 new features recap

April 06 2009

I've just found this interesting review by James Ford from the FlashMidlands event. The Flash Catalyst and Flex 4 presentation was given by Adnrew Shorten and he showed some of the Flex 4 new features: * Flash CS4 support * Event handler autogeneration * Declarative graphics * Unit testing, Network… read more

Flex 4 Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex Developers announced

April 02 2009

Since it's now public I can announce I'm working on the second edition of my Flex Solutions book updating it to Flex 4 : Flex 4 Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex Developers As a Flex developer, you'll no doubt come across repetitive problems every day in your work—wouldn't it be… read more

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