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I'll be Out of Office on a 'long-overdue' vacation

I will be out of the office for all of this week on a 'long-overdue' vacation.
I won't access to my email accounts until 6th February !

See you soon !

Joining the AJAXWorld conference

I've just confirmed my presence at AJAXWorld Conference. It will be a cool event with a lot of speakers and tracks.

Now I have to decide , from the six tracks, what sessions to attend and it won't be easy !

The tracks are :  Web 2.0,  Frameworks & Toolkits,   RIA & the Enterprise ,  Real-World AJAX,   JavaScript-CSS-Mobility & Security,   Diamond Sponsor Track .

Some misimpressions concerning Flex 3 rumors

If you believe that Adobe is about to open a Flex 3 beta, you have to read what David Mendels wrote on FlexCoders list, explaining that Adobe just opens the feedback process for flex 3 :

A) We are not rushing out Flex 3. The Flex 3 beta has not started and
is some time away. Once we have a first public alpha or beta, it will
still be a logn while until we ship. What you are seeing is not about
us rushing the product, it is about us becoming much more open about
what is coming down the road in the future. We started this with Adobe
Labs (initially Macromedia Labs) but in this cycle in the next few
months you will see up open up more so folks can see the roadmap and
give us feedback.

Help Adobe advisory panel on the future of Adobe Flex 3.0

Adobe wants to create a Customer Advisory Board (CAB) that would validate the Flex 3.0 features, so it's conducting a survey.

Adobe is looking for experienced PHP, Java, ColdFusion, and Ajax developers to participate in an advisory panel on the future of Adobe Flex. If you would like to help shape the future of rich internet applications, fill out the following survey (no prior Flex experience required):

Fill the Flex Survey

Selected respondents for the private panel will have the opportunity to provide feedback on future versions of Adobe Flex and test early releases of Adobe software. In appreciation, all active participants will be eligible to receive a complimentary license of an Adobe desktop product.

Flex 2.0.1 new Theme features and accessign data with AMFPHP for today's FlexGala#5 meeting

Today  FlexGala User Group planned the 4th user group meeting event.
FlexGala invited Igor Costa, Flex (Instructor, Evangelist and Developer) for an Adobe Network Solution company in Brazil, that will present for the italian user group.
He 'll talk about :

- Costumization for Flex Application - some examples with the new built-in themes of flex 2.0.1

- Real-world Flex with AMFPHP showing a Bookstore example.

The event will be online and free for all.
It's scheduled on 24th Jan 2007 at 7pm (italian local time) :

http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/flex201/

Acrobat 8 presentation tour and User Group meeting

Tomorrow I'll be at the Adobe booth during the presentation of Acrobat 8 for the italian market.
I'll reply to Acrobat Connect's question and I'll show some Acrobat 8 new features.

In this occasion we'll have the third Acrobat User Group meeting.

So, if you'll be there you can find me on the Acrobat booth ! The first one who visit me we'll receive a free Acrobat The Bible book :)

Live web events with Flash Media Encoder

Flash Media Encoder seams to be the reply to many clients of mine.
Flash Media Encoder helps you broadcast live events such as:

• Sporting events
• Concerts
• Webcasts
• Educational or promotional events

Some guys are been testing it live right now !

FlexGala User Group meeting#4: Developing an Address Book with Coldfusion MX 7 and Flex 2

FlexGala, the italian Flex User Group, today we planned a online meeting event where Ivan Baldassi, Coldfusion Developer and contributor for CFMentor (the Coldfusion User Group in Italy) will present and show how to create an Address Book application using Coldfusion Components and Webservices.
Then we'll create the user interface in Flex 2 connecting to the webservice with the WebService RPC class.

The event is totally free but it's in italian language, sorry:

Start Time: 01/18/2007
time:  6 PM
All the info here : http://www.augitaly.com/flexgala/index.php?cmd=event&id=9

Deploying Flex 2 application on Linux with Flash Player 9 for Linux

Adobe has released the final version of Flash Player 9 for Linux.
You can download this version on Adobe Flash Player page.

Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux supports the same major features and functionality as the Windows and Macintosh versions for playback of Flash content and applications. Unsupported features include Express Install and auto-update notification, which are not available due to the variety of Linux platforms, each handling the Adobe Flash Player plug-in installation in different ways. The full-screen viewing feature is not yet available but is expected to be available in a release later this year.

See more info on Emmy Huang's blog : Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux now available on adobe.com

FlexManiacs Conference to learn developing with Flex 2 and Apollo

Another Flex conference in town : FlexManiacs 2007 !
So let me recap ... We have the :

• Real-World Flex Seminar by Sys Con
• AjaxWorld Expo by Sys Con
• 360 Flex Conference
• and now the FlexManiacs 2007

Oh my God ... I love Flex and I love conferences. But explain me how to choose  !

Anyway, the FlexManiacs 2007 with two full days of 60 minute lectures and 90 minute HANDS-ON practice sessions dedicated to Flex 2 and developing Rich Internet Applications (RIA), you're sure to get all of the information you need.