Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010 – Bangalore, India

Posted by on Jun 10, 2010 in Events | 1 comment

Last year I had the pleasure of speaking at Adobe’s Dev Summit in Bangalore, India. Over 1000 people attended the event and it was an amazing experience that I won’t soon forget. This year the event is going to be even bigger and better.

The Flash Platform Summit is now a 2 day event with over 40 sessions from local and internationally renowned industry leaders and Adobe experts. Sadly I won’t be able to be attend the event this year but I got a sneak peek at the speaker list and it’s already pretty impressive. Trust me… You won’t be disappointed! If you would like to be on stage at the Adobe Flash Platform Summit you can also still enter your session proposals.

If you register before June 25th you even get 60% off! If you’re in the region and are interested in the Flash Platform, you can’t afford to miss this event! Register today!

Introducing: Flash Coffee Meetups

Posted by on May 31, 2010 in Events | 7 comments

If you’re anything like me, you probably drink a lot of coffee, love Flash and enjoy talking about geek stuff… Blend all of these ingredients together and you get “Flash Coffee“!

Join Adobe Platform Evangelists from across Europe for a cuppa, an espresso, a double non fat latte or whatever your chosen caffeine jolt is and see what’s new with the Adobe Flash Platform. Ask some questions, see Flash Player 10.1 running on Android devices, see what’s new with Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst, show what you are working on…

These meetups are informal and small, taking place at various coffee shops around Europe. Come along and join us for a drink and a chat! We’re limiting the numbers per meetup depending on the location so register early!

I just added the first two dates and I hope to see you there.

(You have to attend to be eligible to win the raffle prize!)

Keep an eye on http://bit.ly/flcoffee for more dates.

Cannes Lions widget powered by Adobe and Influxis

Posted by on May 31, 2010 in Events, Flash Platform | 1 comment

The Cannes Lions Festival is only a few weeks away now. The Cannes Lions Festival is a global festival for those working in advertising and related fields. Thousands of delegates from around the world attend the festival to view shortlisted work and attend seminars, workshops and master classes (via Wikipedia).

Adobe is planning lots of seminars and workshops this year and we’re also helping out with the Young Lions competition. Our CEO Shantanu Narayen is also speaking at the event.

A few weeks ago I built a little widget for the festival. The idea is similar to the MAX widget. It displays the latest Cannes Lions news, users can record their own testimonials and it’s incredibly easy to add the widget to your own social network page, blog or site.

I used Adobe’s Distribution/Promotion Service to enable the share functionality in the widget. This service is incredibly easy to use. With just a couple of lines of code you can add the share menu to your application. There’s no need to write any code that talks to all the specific social network APIs. The Distribution/Promotion Service does all that for you.

The video recording is handled by Influxis. I had never used the Influxis service before but I kept hearing good things about them. I’m glad to say that they are all true! The Influxis admin panel is just amazingly easy to use. Literally within seconds you can have your FMS app up and running on their servers. Influxis is also one of the few providers that give you full access to the Flash Media Interactive Server which was needed to enable this in-app recording experience. I know this almost sounds like an Influxis commercial but trust me… If your app uses Flash Media Server you have to check out Influxis. They even provide a bunch of ready-to-go apps so you can get started in a few minutes.

If you’re going to Cannes for the Cannes Lions Festival, leave a message here or come and say “hi”. See you in Cannes!

E-Seminar: App in a Week – June 7th-10th

Posted by on May 10, 2010 in Events | 1 comment

With CS5 now available the EMEA Evangelism team have been hard at work prepping for our upcoming tour and the Online Developer Week. The course of events will fall between June 7th – 10th covering everything from design in Photoshop CS5 to development, and even deployment of your applications using the Flash Platform suite of tools.

The tools covered will include Flash Builder, Flash Professional, Flash Catalyst, Flex 4 and the Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 runtimes. In my own session we’ll also be covering Device Central and some asset optimization guidelines for targeting mobile phones.

We’ll also look at P2P with Flash Player 10.1 as well as Livecycle, PHP and Java integration on the backend.

Schedule:

June 7th – 12:00 – 13:00 GMT Erase the Designer to Developer gap: Adding interactions to your design with Serge Jespers
June 7th – 15:00 – 16:00 GMT Connecting your design to PHP services with Mihai Corlan
June 8th – 12:00 – 13:00 GMT Connecting a web application to a J2EE backend using Flash Builder 4 with Michael Chaize
June 8th – 15:00 – 16:00 GMT Working with Flash CS5 components in your Flash Builder 4 project with Mike Jones
June 9th – 12:00 – 13:00 GMT Going multi-user with P2P in Flash Player 10.1 with Tom Krcha
June 9th – 15:00 – 16:00 GMT Developing multi-user applications with LiveCycle services with Tom Krcha
June 10th – 12:00 – 13:00 GMT Bringing web Applications to the desktop with AIR 2.0 with Piotr Walczyscyn
Jun 10th – 15:00 – 16:00 GMT Code once and run on multiple mobile devices with Mark Doherty

We’ve been busy for the past week building “EVA” to demonstrate all of the above.  I think you’ll be really impressed with it and of course we’ll be providing the code after for you to use in your own applications.

SIGN UP HERE

Online Developer Week – May 10-14

Posted by on Apr 27, 2010 in Events | 1 comment

During Developer Week, learn about the Adobe Flash Platform, including Flex, Flash Builder, AIR, and how it integrates with Creative Suite 5 technologies. This weeklong event features free, live webinars presented by Adobe technology experts. See live demos and have your questions answered by the experts during interactive Q&A sessions. Register and attend whichever sessions suit your needs and you will be eligible to win a copy of Flash Builder 4 Professional or Creative Suite 5 Web Premium.

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Want to speak at MAX 2010?

Posted by on Apr 15, 2010 in Events, MAX2010 | Comments Off

I could not believe my ears when our team started talking about MAX 2010 a few weeks. Just now when I was writing this I realized that MAX is only a little over 6 months away!

Only 6 months away… That’s the perfect time to start looking for speakers. So… If you want to speak at MAX2010, submit your topic and your details today!

If you want to keep up with the latest news on MAX2010, you may also want to sign up for the MAX mailing list!

See in you in Los Angeles from October 23rd to 27!