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Entrepreneur, Flex and AIR expert, RIA Expert, Speaker, Trainer, Author
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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 moreAdobe 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 moreSpring 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 moreLearn 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 moreAdobe'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 moreAmethyst 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 morePantaste, 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 moreWhy 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 moreFlash 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 moreMacromedia 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 moreGoogle 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 moreCreating 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 moreIt'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 moreApril 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 moreFlex 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 moreRecent Posts | All Posts

