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Spring and Flex integration for developing Enterprise RIAs, slides published

This is the slides of the presentation I had at the Spring event titled :

Spring and Flex integration for developing Enterprise RIAs

SpringSource announced Spring BlazeDS Integration, a new open source project to provide tight integration between Spring and Adobe BlazeDS, Adobe’s open source server-based Java remoting and Web messaging technology.

This open source project will make it easy for Java and Spring developers to create enterprise-class rich Internet applications (RIAs) using Adobe Flex software, a cornerstone of the Adobe Flash Platform, and Spring, the de facto standard for enterprise Java.

Enterprise Spring and Flex applications

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UserMatter(s) new issue released

We've just released the new number of UserMatter(s) magazine (March/April issue). This is a very huge number with a lot of cool articles (sorry but they're in italian language): Adobe AIR, Flex 3 and Web Services, Flash Lite 3 and FLV, social networks, Eye Tracking systems,  Adobe Director 11 and many other.

You can read the magazine online or decide to download the PDF version and print it :

• Adobe Air: aria di cambiamento
• Creare un gadget in Adobe Air 1.0 con Flash CS3
• Visualizzare Video FLV Con Flashlite 3.0
• Flex e web services: scenari e soluzioni
• Creare un textbox con autocompletamento
• Second Life experience - parte 1
• Elementi teorici per la progettazione dei Social Network – Parte I
• Eye Tracking: campi applicativi
• I fondamentali di Photoshop: I Livelli
• Adobe Director 11: il grande ritorno!
• CREATIVE STUFF
• DAGLI ESPERTI DI COMTASTE
• BLOGOSHPERE
• Actionscript 3.0 - Design Patterns

 

AdobeTechConnection Workshop: Flash Media Server 3, Flex 3 and AIR

Adobe Italy and Comtaste has organized, with the support of FlexGala, the first  of a long series of workshop dedicated to  Rich Internet Application development. This kind of event is a totally free real training session. In fact we've requested to all partecipants to bring their laptops to follow the day.
In this first meeting we've talked about Flash Media Server 3, Adobe AIR and Flex 3.  Matteo and I have taken examples and demos we usually use for Comtaste's training courses about these topics.
People were very interested and we gave the basics to stream a video content using the Flash Media Server 3 and ActionScript 3 (with Flash CS3 as well as Flex Builder 3).
In the second part of the morning we showed how to export the streaming video on AIR using flash CS3 and Aptana.
Adobe Italy has supported the event offering the possibility to make a raffle for donating a Flip Video Ultra device (it's so coool !).

You'll find all the slides and demo example on FlexGala Adobe user group site.

Adobe MAX 2008/2009 in San Francisco,Milan (Italy) and Tokyo

Adobe has launched the new site on the Adobe MAX 2008 :

MAX 2008/2009 will be held in San Francisco, California, Milan, Italy and Tokyo, Japan. MAX is an experience unlike any other, an opportunity to connect with thousands of designers, developers, partners, executives and Adobe staff for education, inspiration, and community. Mark your calendar. You will not want to miss the opportunity to participate !

Livecycle Workflow and Adobe Connect italian case study

Thanks to John Dowell I discovered this great Adobe Case study about the use of Connect and Livecycle Workflow by Tribunale of Cremona :

Tribunale di Cremona is an efficient unit of the Italian legal system. 14 judges and 50 employees work at the court which assembles about 7 times a week, tackling 12 to 13 criminal trials each time.

Tribunale di Cremona has been using computer technology for quite some time, following guidelines from the Digital Administration Code. Efficiency and speed have inspired several projects including the conversion of documents to digital format done in collaboration with Adobe. For the past several years, all papers related to pre-trial conferences have been available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Starting recently, all court papers associated with a trial are available in digital format only.

Speaking at the Adobe Tech Connection event

Adobe Italy and FlexGala has organized a full day event called :

Adobe Tech Connection
Using the Web 3.0 tools: Flash Media Server 3 and Flex 3/AIR

I'll be there to present some real world case stuides we developed at Comtaste and to show some Flex 3 and AIR tecniques that use audio and video streaming with Flash Media Server 3.
The event is totally free but it requires you to register from the Adobe site.
The location chosen is the Adobe Italy headquarter in Milan.

See you there guys !

Adobe Brio (announced on Labs)

Adobe Brio is the codename for the next generation of Acrobat Connect. Brio is a web meeting service built with collaboration in mind for individual professionals and small businesses. With Brio, you can instantly communicate and collaborate through an easy-to-use, easy-to-access online personal meeting room.

Built on Adobe's Flash platform, Brio operates inside most popular web browsers, so you can start a meeting without worrying if others have a compatible system or the right software.

Brio beta allows you to:

• Host unlimited online meetings with up to 3 meeting participants.
• Interact with easy-to-use screen sharing, chat and whiteboards.
• Access your meeting instantly with a personalized, easy-to-remember URL.
• Distribute documents and files to meeting participants.
• Use integrated VoIP, teleconferencing and multi-point video.

Spry Framework, Dreamweaver CS3 and developing AIR Applications. Tomorrow at my speeches at FromAToWeb

Tomorrow I'll have two speeches at the FromAToWeb Conference. This is one of my favourite conference bacause it reminds me when I was a consultant for Macromedia.
If I  remember well, it was the first conference in Italy I attended as speaker.

Anyway, my speeches will be on :

AJAX web pages with the Spry Framework and Dreamweaver CS3
Introducing AIR Applications

I'll talk of Spry, use the AIR Dreamweaver CS3 Extension and the Adobe AIR Update for Adobe Flash CS3 Professional beta 2, some and comment some great AIR Applications.

Very interesting stuff, guys !
At the end  of the presentation I'll donate some books for free (thanks to the courtesy of FriendsofED) :

• Object Oriented ActionScript 3 (Peter Elst, Todd Yard and Jacobs)
• The Essential Guide to Flex 2 and ActionScritp 3 (Charles Brown)
  
• Flahs CS3 for Designers (Green and Stiller)

See you there !

360Flex Conference needs your feedback to grow and make it better

Tom Ortega, published an interesting post where is asking to 360Flex Conference's past/present/future customers any feedback to make the conference better !

If you’ve gone to a 360 Flex event or plan to someday, go answer this three question survey:

360Flex Survey

It’s only 3 questions to you, but it’s worth quiet a bit more to me.

See the live results of the survey !

Adobe MAX Barcellona, a sangRIA conference !

The Adobe MAX Barcellona ends and they were 3 amazing days. The MAX Conference is a great conference for networking, meeting new people, old friends, attending great sessions, and talking to the gurus !

It was a pleasure to be part of this great event.

Thanks to my personal photographer (kidding) Lorenzo "sangRIA" Colloreta, here are the coolest photos of the Adobe MAX Conference 2007 in Barcellona :

Adobe MAX Flickr Slideshow

Have also a look at the photos published by my friend Pablo Parrado.

Pay attention to the photo where Sumi Lim (Developer Relations, EMEA) is dancing new york style salsa :) She looks pretty good !