Christoph Rooms » Flash Platform http://www.christophrooms.com Adobe Creative Pro Belgium / Luxembourg Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:57:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The new Belgian Adobe usergroup : the 360° approach http://www.christophrooms.com/2010/02/18/the-new-belgian-adobe-usergroup-the-360%c2%b0-approach/ http://www.christophrooms.com/2010/02/18/the-new-belgian-adobe-usergroup-the-360%c2%b0-approach/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:57:11 +0000 christophrooms http://www.christophrooms.com/?p=173 Last month the Belgian Adobe usergroup “rebooted”. The renewed usergroup came with a new website and a 360° approach towards Adobe’s products. They reorganized and have now 6 different interest groups (SIG) : Video, Photography, Web, Design, Print and RIA(enterprise). Every Adobe product fits inside 1 or more SIGs.

The new website enables their community to define what products they use and what SIGs they want to link to. The new site wants to enable sharing of information and ideas.

The goal is to organize every month one AUG event, linked to 1 or more interest groups. Next one coming up is the “Design SIG” event in Antwerp. Yes, indeed … Antwerp. The rebooted AUG wants to host their events in different cities across Belgium.
At the moment all content is in Dutch (except for the RIA sessions), but I’ve been told they might add other languages in the future …

The event list contains 6 events and topics look really promising. The “Video SIG” event in march looks impressive. Check out the website and get subscribed ! You can follow them on twitter :  @augbe

Congrats to the team driving the new AUG !!!

Maybe we’ll see each other at the “Design SIG” event on Feb 25th in Antwerp ?

]]> http://www.christophrooms.com/2010/02/18/the-new-belgian-adobe-usergroup-the-360%c2%b0-approach/feed/ 1 From vision to reality : Open Screen Project http://www.christophrooms.com/2010/02/16/166/ http://www.christophrooms.com/2010/02/16/166/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:33:01 +0000 christophrooms http://www.christophrooms.com/?p=166 It’s great to see all the news coming by from the Mobile World Congress  in Barcelona.

After talking for a while now about the Open Screen Project, it’s clear we are getting close to a first release of Flash player 10.1 for mobile. It’s amazing to see the number of devices that are shown at the Adobe booth. Numerous pda’s and netbooks are showing a beta version of the flash player 10.1 for devices. Finally a full web experience on mobile devices ! On Adobe TV you can get some demo videos.

Ofcourse we all know that for mobile the applications are as important as the browser when we are talking about a web experience. Adobe AIR already provided you on a desktop a flash experience outside the browser. Adobe announced this week also Adobe AIR for Android, with a plan to get AIR on other mobile platforms.

See it in action :

So yes … Open Screen Project is a great vision, brought to reality thanks to all of the OSP partners. I’m sure there is more to come on this subject !

]]> http://www.christophrooms.com/2010/02/16/166/feed/ 0 What happened to Cocomo ? http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/10/15/what-happened-to-cocomo/ http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/10/15/what-happened-to-cocomo/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:02:41 +0000 christophrooms http://www.christophrooms.com/?p=144 I get this question quite a lot lately. What was announced on http://labs.adobe.com as Cocomo, is today known as the “Adobe LiveCycle Collaboration Services”.(LC CS) The service is no longer beta.

For who doesn’t know it yet … LC CS is a set of Flex components you can integrate into your own application. These Flex components offer you online collaboration capabilities like a chat window, webcam integration, multi-user whiteboard, VOIP, … You can see it as Acrobat Connect building blocks.

As the word “service” implies, these Flex components will use a hosted service provided by Adobe. If you want to use these components you’ll need to have an account to use these online services.

Wanna get started ? Checking out the LC CS developer portal might be a good idea ;)

]]> http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/10/15/what-happened-to-cocomo/feed/ 0 Can’t attend Adobe Max ? Thank god there is Max Online ! http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/09/29/cant-attend-adobe-max-thank-god-there-is-max-online/ http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/09/29/cant-attend-adobe-max-thank-god-there-is-max-online/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:26:19 +0000 christophrooms http://www.christophrooms.com/?p=124 Great news for everyone that can’t make it to LA due to time or budget limitations. Adobe announced today that it will stream the keynotes live ! Also other sessions will be made available online, possible with a delay.

Get registered here : http://max.adobe.com/online/

]]> http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/09/29/cant-attend-adobe-max-thank-god-there-is-max-online/feed/ 0 New cookbook application on Adobe devnet http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/09/28/new-cookbook-application-on-adobe-devnet/ http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/09/28/new-cookbook-application-on-adobe-devnet/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:41:49 +0000 christophrooms http://www.christophrooms.com/?p=118 “The Adobe Developer Connection announced today that the brand new Adobe Cookbooks application is now live! This uber Adobe Cookbook application replaces the individual, product-specific cookbook applications that were previously in place for Flex, AIR and Mobile.  The new application will still support those technologies, in addition to a dozen or so additional technologies, all within a single application.  For those new to the cookbook applications, they are a searchable repository for community-generated code samples.”

Looks like a great addition to what “Tour de Flex” is allready providing !

]]> http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/09/28/new-cookbook-application-on-adobe-devnet/feed/ 0 New on labs : Flash spell checker. http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/09/28/new-on-labs-flash-spell-checker/ http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/09/28/new-on-labs-flash-spell-checker/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:52:33 +0000 christophrooms http://www.christophrooms.com/?p=112 Want to integrate spell checking into your rich internet or AIR application ? Good news … Squiggly is a new actionscript library that provides you with this functionality. Check it out on labs.adobe.com.

]]> http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/09/28/new-on-labs-flash-spell-checker/feed/ 0 “Pepsi Max it” case from Proximity BBDO one of finalists for Max 2009 Award http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/09/10/pepsi-max-it-case-from-bbdo-proximity-selected-for-max-2009-award/ http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/09/10/pepsi-max-it-case-from-bbdo-proximity-selected-for-max-2009-award/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:49:18 +0000 admin http://www.christophrooms.com/?p=86 Congrats to the BBDO Proximity team ! The “Pepsi Max it” case is one of the 3 finalists for the Max Award 2009, category Advertisement. They build a great experience integrating Flash with a hardware component, a claw machine !  The fact they also integrated facebook is a nice extra !

Next step is that the world can vote to select the winner, this will be possible from September 21th on the Adobe Max site.

If you are going to Max, make sure you’ll be there to support them. If you still didn’t book your ticket for Max … Flying to LA is still pretty cheap … (400 euro) and the weak dollar makes your stay pretty cheap in LA.

]]> http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/09/10/pepsi-max-it-case-from-bbdo-proximity-selected-for-max-2009-award/feed/ 1 Get a free Flex Builder or LightRoom with CS4. http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/07/29/get-a-free-flex-builder-or-lightroom-with-cs4/ http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/07/29/get-a-free-flex-builder-or-lightroom-with-cs4/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:08:39 +0000 admin http://www.christophrooms.com/?p=70 In case you haven’t upgraded yet to CS4, you might wanna check out this promo. The copy of Flex Builder that you’ll get with CS4 Web Premium will also grant you access to the Flash Builder beta program without the 30 day limitation.

]]> http://www.christophrooms.com/2009/07/29/get-a-free-flex-builder-or-lightroom-with-cs4/feed/ 0 FlexCamp Amsterdam on November 13th ! http://www.christophrooms.com/2008/10/22/flexcamp-amsterdam-on-november-13th/ http://www.christophrooms.com/2008/10/22/flexcamp-amsterdam-on-november-13th/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:11:55 +0000 christophrooms http://christophrooms.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/flexcamp-amsterdam-on-november-13th/ Flexcamp is a free community event where you can share knowledge with other Flex developers. There will be lots of sessions : the early sessions will be for starters, and later on it will become more and more advanced. The idea is that you can jump in whenever you feel like …  There will be also a room for “unconference” style sessions,  these sessions allow you to discuss together with a number of community members on a specific topic of your choice. Get more info on http://www.flexcamp.nl. Also James Ward and Christophe Coenraets will also be around. Flexcamp is organized by the Dutch Flex User Group. Get registered today … seats are limited !

]]> http://www.christophrooms.com/2008/10/22/flexcamp-amsterdam-on-november-13th/feed/ 1 Dr Flex and Dr LiveCycle available for consultation. http://www.christophrooms.com/2008/06/03/dr-flex-and-dr-livecycle-available-for-consultation/ http://www.christophrooms.com/2008/06/03/dr-flex-and-dr-livecycle-available-for-consultation/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:23:16 +0000 christophrooms http://christophrooms.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/dr-flex-and-dr-livecycle-available-for-consultation/ The Benelux Presales team is starting from June on with the “dr Flex & dr LiveCycle” events. The idea is to be available 1 day a month for general questions on Adobe LiveCycle ES and Adobe Flex. It’s not about answering typical support questions, but to give advice on general questions like how to implement Adobe LiveCycle and Flex into an enterprise architecture.  

“During these sessions “Dr Flex & Dr LiveCycle”, observe your common Flex & LC symptoms. They advise on how to implement Adobe Enterprise Software and work in a healthy IT environment by giving you a FREE ‘health check’ session.” 

They also setup a blog where they will post all questions and answers so the community can benefit from this iniative ! Check it out : http://www.drflex.eu

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