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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

Blog

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

What's new in Flash Catalyst BEta 2 and what's ahead for Flash Catalyst 1.0

October 06 2009

The first day of MAX has ended. I had great time following pretty interesting sessions. This year I'm very focused on Flash Catalyst and Flex 4's sessions. Today the new beta of Flash Catalyst and Flex 4 has been announced and they're now available on the Adobe Labs. Steve Heintz, product… read more

Flash applications on iPhone now available with the upcoming Flash Pro CS5

October 06 2009

That was the announcement done at the today's MAX Keynotes. On theAdobe Labs site you can watch a videodemonstration of applications from the Apple App Store built using Flash technology. Below there is the video that I've taken during the... read more

Setting your Flash Catalyst custom options using the hidden Preferences window

September 28 2009

At Flash On The Beach during my session about Flash Catalyst (soon all my slides will be published on my blog) I've showed how to open the Preferences dialog box. Since a couple of guys have emailed me to ask how to open the Preferences dialog box, I've decided to… read more

Flash On The Beach 2009 video trailer

September 23 2009

John Davey did it again. This is the brand-new video for FOTB 09 made by Artillery (thanks to Lee for publishing it) read more

Best practices on using Flash Catalyst

August 25 2009

If you're having fun (like me) using Flash Catalyst there's this useful article by Andrew Shorten about "Adobe Flash Catalyst best practices": In this article, Andrew'll provide some hints and tips that will make it easier for you to move design assets from Illustrator to Flash Catalyst in a structured… read more

Preparing to the Flash Catalyst's era attending my session at Flash on The Beach 09

August 06 2009

FOTB09 is about to sold out again. From the last newsletter received John Davey wrote that tickets sales will end way before the conference starts. Because of the phenomenal speed of sales this year, we are looking at a 3rd year in a row being sold out way beofre the… read more

Making the most of MAX Los Angeles 2009

July 28 2009

I just wanted to point this collection of useful links and tips out to get to Adobe MAX 2009 on budget. Serge Jesper made a great job giving you a lot of information, tips, and links for anyone who is interested in partecipating to MAX Los Angeles 2009: Getting to… read more

Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 will be moved to early 2010

July 23 2009

Yeasterday on the Flex Team's blog, Adobe has announced that, in order to make the enhancements required and get additional feedback from the community the final release of Flex 4 SDK and Flash Builder 4 will be moved from late 2009 to early 2010. read more

Creating native menus dynamically in AIR with Flash CS4

July 22 2009

In the last tutorial you've learned how to create and access pop- up menus in AIR applications with Flash CS4. The menus you’ve created in that examples so far have all been generated through predefined ActionScript code. If you wanted to change the label of an item on the menu,… read more

Get Flex Builder 3 for free if you're an unemployed developers

July 10 2009

Adobe has re-opened the "Adobe Flex Builder 3 for unemployed developers" program. It means that "Adobe Flex Builder 3" software is currently available for free, while supplies last, for software developers who are affected by the current economic condition and are currently unemployed. Read the program eligibility and don't miss this… read more

Speak at Flash on The Beach 2009

July 09 2009

Flash on the Beach is behind the corner (20th-23rd Sept) and this year I'm again a confirmed speaker. I'm a little bit late about publishing my speech but I can give you an anticipation aying that I'll talk about Flash Catalyst. Soon I'll publish more info. I don't know how,… read more

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

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