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Rich Tretola

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Biography

Rich Tretola currently holds the position of Applications Development Manager at Herff Jones Inc. He is an award-winning Flex developer and was the lead author of Professional Flex 2 (2007 ISBN: 0470102675) and sole author of Beginning AIR (2008 ISBN: 0470229047). He is also a contributing author on Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook (2008 ISBN: 0596522509)

Rich has been building Internet applications for over 10 years and has worked with Flex since the original Royale beta version of Flex in 2003. Other than Flex, Rich builds applications using ColdFusion, Flash, and Java. Rich is highly regarded within the Flex community as an expert in RIA and is also an Adobe Community Expert. He runs a popular Flex and AIR blog at EverythingFlex.com, is the community manager of InsideRIA.com and was also a speaker at the Adobe MAX 2007 conference in Chicago. He has been asked to be a speaker at the Adobe MAX conference for three consecutive years.

For a non technical escape, Rich is also a co-owner of a chocolate bar manufacturing company located on Maui named WowWee Maui.

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Flex Indiapolis UG Meeting tonight

November 18 2009

The Flex UG in Indianapolis has been "offline" for a while but is back tonight 11/18/09 for its first meeting under new UG manager Mick Keily. Joe Johnston and Peter Buick from Universal Mind making an appearance in Indianapolis. "We'll... read more

QOW: Top open source Flex projects

November 16 2009

Question of the week: Open source projects are extremely important to the growth of a development community. The Flex community has always had a large number of open source projects and libraries that have been contributions from both community... read more

QOW: What would you build?

November 10 2009

Question of the week: Time to dream a little. If you had an unlimited budget and unlimited resources what application would you build and why would you build it? Please leave comments.... read more

What feature do you use most on your mobile phone?

November 02 2009

With all of this talk lately about the Flash Player coming to mobile, I thought I would ask a very simple question. What feature do you use most on your mobile phone? Please take part in this poll by clicking... read more

Which software title do you use most ofter for prototyping?

October 26 2009

Any quality development team will put an application prototype before their clients before every starting on production code. There are many many software packages to help make this a quick and easy process. We would like to know which in... read more

Windows 7, are you on board?

October 19 2009

Windows 7 will ship this week and from all accounts, it is the best operating system shipped from Microsoft since Windows 2000. Note, this is not my opinion based on the Microsoft's marketing campaign, but my personal experience evaluating the... read more

MAX 2009 Session Videos: Flex Frameworks, AR, & Best RIAs

October 16 2009

InsideRIA had three sessions at Adobe MAX this year: The Battle of the Flex Frameworks Returns, with Greg Owen; Augmented Reality within the Flash Player, with Jesse Freeman; and InsideRIA's Secrets of the Best Rich Internet Apps of 2009 (So... read more

More Upcoming RIA Events

October 16 2009

RIA Unleashed - Boston is a 1 day 3 track event covering Flex, AIR, ColdFusion and related technologies and disciplines. Our three tracks are designed to allow you to focus on the technologies you are interested in. You'll be able... read more

Upcoming RIA Events

October 14 2009

Here are a few events that are in the near future you may wish to attend: BFusion / BFlex - Two days of hands-on training from the experts in Adobe Flex and ColdFusion. ColdFusion — October 24, 2009 Flex —... read more

Has your strategy changed on mobile (now that Flash Player mobile has been announced)?

October 12 2009

Adobe has announced that the browser based Flash player 10.1 will soon be running on every major mobile platform (Windows Mobile, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, WebOS) except Apple's iPhone. (See my opinion on Apple here). They also announced that although Apple... read more

Flash on Devices

October 06 2009

Flash on Iphone: Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.* http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kusXgPAmMLw Flash10 on... read more

Thank You Steve!

October 01 2009

Although we are all bummed around here that Steve Weiss is leaving the InsideRIA team, we know what an important role he plays within O'Reilly as a whole and that he is the right man to make O'Reilly's new partnership with Microsoft a success. I just wanted to offer my… read more

Meet the Authors at MAX

October 01 2009

If you will be at Adobe MAX next week, please stop by the O'Reilly Booth between 6:30pm - 8pm to meet your favorite O'Reilly InsideRIA authors. Here is the list of the authors who will be on hand at this... read more

New Poll: How soon would you buy a new phone if you could get the Flash Player on it?

September 28 2009

It has been known for quite some time that as part of the open screen project Adobe has been working with chip manufacture ARM on getting the Flash Player onto many devises including mobile and set top boxes. read more

Poll Results: What's your main operating system?

September 27 2009

Well as I suspected, there is a much larger percentage of our readers using non Windows operating systems. The results show that over 20% use some flavor of Linux, over 47% are using OS X, and the remaining 30% or... read more

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