http://www.ashorten.com Platform Evangelist, Adobe - Flex, Flash, AIR, ColdFusion, Rich Internet Applications Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:30:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Adobe was one of the main sponsors at Future of Web Design, which was held today in London. I only had a short presentation, but given the opportunity to speak to around 1000 designers I decided to highlight the opportunity that designers (who typically use Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator or Fireworks ... http://www.ashorten.com/2008/04/17/developer-personal-ad-as-presented-at-fowd/ As I mentioned previously, we held a one day event for UK-based digital agencies to coincide with the Flex/AIR launch on the 25th February in London. I've had a number of requests to make the presentations from the event available so I've posted them here for download (46Mb zip file). In ... http://www.ashorten.com/2008/03/13/presentations-from-uk-agency-flexair-event-posted/ We held an event in London exclusively for digital agencies on Monday 25th February to coincide with the launch of Flex 3 and AIR - one of the sessions that I presented was 'Flex 3 Designer/Developer workflow'. The aim of the session was to overcome some of the perceptions that people ... http://www.ashorten.com/2008/02/27/flex-3-designerdeveloper-workflow/ As announced back in November, the on AIR tour is coming to Europe this year - we've now posted the details of all the dates and locations for on the tour website. If you didn't follow the US tour last year, then essentially in each location we'll be running a one ... http://www.ashorten.com/2008/02/20/on-air-european-tour-details/ Following on from the first Poker Tournament for Adobe developers back in November, it's great to see that we're sponsoring the next event which is to take place on Monday 25th February in London - just one week from today! The event is open to all designers and developers using Adobe's ... http://www.ashorten.com/2008/02/18/next-london-poker-tournament-on-monday-25th/ You can't help but know from all the media coverage that today is 'Super Tuesday' in the US, when some 24 states vote on who they will back for the Democratic and Republican nomination for the next US election. In the UK, BBC News has used Flex to build a map-based ... http://www.ashorten.com/2008/02/05/bbc-uses-flex-to-report-on-us-super-tuesday/ We're all set with the dates for the European Flex 3 pre-release tour which is taking place in January 2008. Serge Jespers, James Ward, Enrique Duvos and I will be traveling across Europe talking about Flex 3, AIR and BlazeDS - if you'd like to get up-to-date on the forthcoming ... http://www.ashorten.com/2007/12/21/european-flex-3-pre-release-tour/ With the continuing demand for Flex developers you might want to take advantage of two training offers that are currently running, one from Total Training and another from Academy Class. For online training in Flex, Adobe have partnered with Total Training to provide free Flex training courses for 30 days - ... http://www.ashorten.com/2007/12/10/flex-training-in-december-and-january/ Further to my previous entry I can now confirm the dates for all three European events at which Colin Moock will present his 'ActionScript 3.0: From the Ground Up Tour'. The dates are: Munich, 20th February 2008 Amsterdam, 27th February 2008 London, 3rd March 2008 Registration for each event will open approximately 6 weeks before ... http://www.ashorten.com/2007/12/10/colin-moock%e2%80%99s-as3-tour-europe-dates/ Today saw Flash Brighton's Big Day Out take place on the south coast of England and, as the first Flex/AIR camp in the UK, it was great to have a turnout of over 100 people. Starting just after lunch and running into the early hours of the morning there were presentations ... http://www.ashorten.com/2007/11/24/flash-brighton-big-day-out/