Marco Casario | RIAvolutionize the web

Happy new year and Thanks for allowing Comtaste great achievements in 2008

A new adventure is about to start.  Tomorrow I'll leave for a cruise on Nile, Egypt. I'll visit pyramids and Sphinxes  at Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut's Temple, Giza, the Colossi of Memnon, Edfu, and Cairo.

Since 2008 is almost over  here at Comtaste we would like to wish all the best for the New Year, and dedicate a warm THANK YOU to all of our clients and partners who allowed us achieve these outstanding goals in 2008:

- More than 1,500 days of consulting delivered
- About 10,000 hours of development activity
- More than 70 training courses delivered
- A fantastic, motivated team of more than 20 consultants specialized in RIA technologies
- Active all over Europe and overseas
- Dozens of participations as speakers in events and conferences in Europe and Worldwide
- 4 of our books published by O’Reilly and Apress

Once again, THANK YOU SO MUCH for your support!  And a really wonderful 2009 (despite all the crisis echoes)!

Long overdue vacation begins! I'll be back at the end of July !

A new adventure is about to start. And this time programming has nothing to do with this ;)
Tomorrow I'll leave for Seychelles islands for two weeks  holiday !

I'll visit Mahe, Praslin and La Digue plus some minor small atollos (Cousin Island,Coco Island, Coconout Island, Fregate Island and more).

I'm a diver  so I can't wait to explore the deep Indian Ocean ;)

I'll be back on 27 July !

Let FlexGala hear from you. Help the Flex community to make it better !

FlexGala, the italian Flex and AIR community, is 2 years old.  It reaches great numbers : more than 2000 registered  members, 600 unique daily visits, 40.000 unique pageviews. This is an awesome success for a RIA community in Italy.

So it's now time to hear  the thoughts of people that join and make the community itself.  We've created a quick survey that will allow FlexGala to know your feedbacks and ideas in order to improve and better calibrate the next contents and events of the community.

The survey requires no more than 2 minutes to be completed (in italian language of course). Thanks for your support.

Virtual Reality with Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar

It's too cool : Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment. The display properly reacts to head and body movement as if it were a real window creating a realistic illusion of depth and space. By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. For more information and software visit http://johnnylee.net

Back to my Christmas Holiday and ready to start the 2008

This Christmas holidays have been the most long of my life. The last six month of 2007 have been very intensive for me: Comtaste grew, we hired new people, we took new interesting projects plus a lot of consulting and training activities on Flex development, I've finished my Flex 3 Solutions book and many other things ... So I've arrived at December done and I needed a break to recharge my strenght for the new year.

I decided to visit one of the Caribbean island (Gran Bahamas) and then I travelled from Miami to Key West. It was a wonderful trip and I enjoyed all the time !
Now I'm ready and I'm full of news. So keep updated on my blog ;)

Merry Christmas !

Our best wishes for a happy Christmas from the Comtaste Consulting Team.

 

Flex, AIR and Flash Guitar Hero 3 Wii Community

If you're a Flex, Flash or AIR developer, plus you have a Wii, plus you play Guitar Hero 3 you can't miss the coolest GH3 tour group ever :

airoflex

The tour group was created by Peter :)
Feel free to invite me to your GH3 contacts. My ID is marcocasario (of course).
This is my homepage !

Google won't search for Chuck Norris

This is too fun. I have to blog  it (thank to Juri , you're the man).

Open Google.com, search for "google chuck norris" and cick on I'm feeling lucky. This is the result page of google :

My first number of Retrogamer magazine arrived !

Today has arrived my first number of Retrogamer a magazine entirely dedicated to retro gaming.
This month there is a special on Speedball 2 and about the Sega Game Gear handheld console (I have one).

If you love classic video games this is the magazine made for you !

Leaving for Santorini, Greek to make a short break vacation

I'm preparing my luggages. In a few hours I'll leave for Santorini, Greek for one week holiday.
I'll be back by 22 of July.

Santorini  is a small, circular archipelago of volcanic islands located in southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km south-east from Greece's mainland. It is also known as Thera (or Thira, Greek Θήρα, IPA: ˈθira). It is the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately 73 km² (28 mi²), and in 2001 had an estimated population of 13,600. Santorini is essentially what has been left from an enormous volcanic explosion which destroyed the settlements thereon and led to the creation of the current geological caldera. Its spectacular natural beauty along with its eminent nightlife make the island one of Europe's top tourist hotspots.