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Rich Tretola

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Biography

Rich Tretola currently holds the position of Rich Applications Technical Lead 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 will be speaking at MAX 2008 in San Francisco.

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

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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New Poll: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie of All Time?

June 30 2009

Well, we are nearing the midway point of the year, so we thought it would be fun to have a non tech poll, that is simply for fun. Let me start by saying that I am not a big fan... read more

Poll Results: HTML 5, are Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX in trouble?

June 28 2009

This poll was one that brought many votes and most of you don't feel that HTML 5 will be making any major impact any time soon. Over 40% of you voted for "I don't think so: HTML 5 doesn't touch... read more

Flash on Android

June 24 2009

Android have officially joined the Open Screen Project with the announcement of Flash support on the upcoming HTC Hero device.... read more

New Poll: HTML 5, are Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX in trouble?

June 22 2009

HTML 5 has been the topic of buzz lately in the Internet/RIA world. With new features like Canvas, offline local storage, etc. many have been suggesting (including a recent article from infoworld) that HTML 5 could steal market share from... read more

New Poll: What's your interest in Palm's new webOS platform at the moment?

June 16 2009

Last week Palm released the Pre, which uses Palm's new webOS platform (based on HTML, CSS & JavaScript). Since webOS is using very familiar languages to many developers, we assume that there would be a high interest in developing for... read more

Poll Results: What are you most curious about with Google Wave?

June 15 2009

I fully admit that this was a poll that was really kind of unfair as many of us (including myself) have not really seen much of Google Wave yet outside of a video from I/O. With that being the case,... read more

Poll Results: Do you currently develop your RIA applications for accessibility?

June 09 2009

Well, it certainly appears that accessibility in RIA development is not a concern for many developers for one reason or another. We had a very small showing for this poll and of those who did respond, only a handful said... read more

New Poll: What Are You Most Curious About within Google Wave?

June 09 2009

Google Wave was all over the news last week when it was first shown at Google I/O. So, we thought it would be interesting to see if you care about Google Wave and, if so, which piece in particular you... read more

Union Platform - Interview with Colin Moock

June 09 2009

Union is a development platform for creating multiuser applications. It includes the Union Server, a multiuser communications server, and Reactor, a framework for creating Adobe Flash client applications. I recently had the opportunity to discuss the new Union Platform project with Colin Moock who is one of the creators of… read more

Flash Builder 4 & Flash Catalyst Public Betas

June 01 2009

Flash Builder 4 & Flash Catalyst are now officially available to the masses. Yes, the public beta has begun at http://labs.adobe.com/. Want to learn more about these new products? Check out our new features published today: Overview of Flex 4... read more

New Poll: Do you currently develop your RIA applications for accessibility?

June 01 2009

Accessibility is something that we all know is important when developing content for the Internet, however it is also something that has frequently been left out of a project development due to time constraints, technology challenges, or budgeting issues. I... read more

Poll Results: Which IDE do you use to create Flash content?

May 31 2009

It appears that the InsideRIA audience is very Flex centric when it comes to developing Flash content as over 40% of the respondents chose Flex Builder 3 as their tool of choice for creating SWF. Flash Develop came in at... read more

InsideRIA Conference - Call for Papers

May 30 2009

I have had many inquiries from those who wish to speak at the inaugural InsideRIA conference. I am now happy to announce that the call for papers is now open. For more information please visit the http://www.insideriacon.com. One thing to note is that due to price and length of the… read more

Poll Results: How many AIR applications do you have installed?

May 26 2009

I am glad to see that only 6% of our respondents do not have any AIR applications currently installed, which means that 84% have at least 1 AIR application installed. The results show that 57% have between 1-5 AIR applications... read more

New Poll: What IDE do you use to create Flash content?

May 26 2009

With all of the chatter lately about the renaming of Flex Builder to Flash Builder and the many ways of compiling SWF with the Adobe tools alone, Kevin Suttle and myself thought it would be interesting to see what other... read more

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