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Post "Real-World Flex" One-Day Seminar by Jesse Randall Warden www.jessewarden.com I gotta say, I had a lot of fun at the Real-World Flex Seminar SYS-CON put together. Things went, for me, really smoothly. Registration, getting Internet at the booth, and hooking up with my team. Fr... (more)

"We're proud to include this functionality in the latest release of eCart," said Hieu Bui, WebAssist VP of Business Development, referring to PayPal's 'Website Payments Pro' as WebAssist today announced the release of their latest version of eCart, the premier eCommerce extension... (more)

"We decided it was the right time to deliver Dreamweaver with Creative Suite 2.3, so customers can make the transition to the industry’s leading Web design and development tool,” said Mark Hilton, Adobe's vice president of product management, as Adobe announced today ... (more)

"Since nearly everyone already has the Flash Player installed, Acrobat Connect makes it extremely easy to go from looking at your computer screen to sharing it with others, regardless of their platform or version of software," said Tom Hale (pictured), Adobe's senior vice preside... (more)

Adobe boost its fiscal third-quarter sales by a massive 24%, it reported yesterday; it also reported a 35% drop in its Q3 profit due to having booked charges related to its acquisition of Macromedia Inc. Net profit for the quarter was $94.4M (down from $144.9M a year ago). The fa... (more)

Christophe Coenraets (pictured) chairs and Mike Nimer, James Ward, Luis Polanco, Andrew Oliver, Mansour Raad, Boris Kabisher and Manish Jiandani will all be giving sessions when the one-day Flex Track kicks off next month at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2006 in the Santa Clara Con... (more)

Mansour Raad (pictured), from "the 800-pound gorilla when it comes to mapping," ESRI, is the senior software architect behind ArcWeb Services, the next-generation mapping unit of ESRI that creates and serves up 6 million maps a day on the fly in real time (www.arcwebservices.com)... (more)

There are cool software tools and there are practical tools. People who make their living by developing enterprise Web applications are very careful in selecting the language or technology for their needs. There is a huge difference in requirements for developing an application l... (more)

"If we can imagine it, we can now build it." That, in a single sentence, is what - according to Dave Wolf, VP of Consulting at Cynergy Systems pictured) - characterizes the disruptive moment of opportunity that Flex has arrived right in the middle of. In his session, intriguingly... (more)

The irrepressible Mansour Raad (pictured) opened the eyes of the "Real-World Flex" audience wide on Monday, as he demonstrated the extraordinary power of Adobe's Flex by demo'ing a mouth-watering sequence of 'mapping mashups' drawing on the full power of ESRI's astonishing GIS da... (more)

Adobe's next-generation client, codenamed "Apollo," will extend the reach and capabilities of today's rich Internet applications (RIAs), freeing them to run outside the browser, on desktops. Luis Polanco (pictured), product manager for Apollo told the audience at 'Real-World Flex... (more)

Registration opened yesterday - at the "Real-World Flex" One-Day Seminar being held by SYS-CON Events - for the New York Flex User Group. The group will serve as a central meeting place to exchange ideas, solutions and network with other Flex developers. "We are in the process of... (more)

Fumi Matsumoto (pictured), Co-Founder and CTO of "Flex ISV" Allurent, outlined today at 'Real-World Flex' in New York City the technical and design challenges related to the development of a new platform for building RIA consumer shopping experiences, built on Flex and Flash tech... (more)

"Geeks mingled with suits; some of the geeks IN suits." That, according to 'Real-World Flex' speaker Jesse Randall Warden, was what greeted him when he arrived in New York City's Roosevelt Hotel this morning ready to give his own session at the event, a session called "Flash and ... (more)

With its free features, such as the Flex SDK, Flex 2 uses Adobe's ubiquitous Flash Player as its runtime, which is why Adobe can confidently predict millions of users and 1,000,000 developers. That, according to Flex Product Manager Eric Anderson (pictured), is the key to underst... (more)

Working, as he does uniquely well at conference after conference, with live demos and no offline safety-net, Adobe's senior technology evangelist Christophe Coenraets (pictured) delivered his session "Extending AJAX with Flex" to an audience of completely enraptured developers, a... (more)

'The browser is not really a good model for applications,' said David Mendels this morning at SYS-CON Events' inaugural 'Real-World Flex' One-Day Seminar. Rich Internet Applications are the future of the Web, and cross-platform, powerful Flex 2 is right in the eye of the storm. '... (more)

On August 4, after 4 years, Justin Everett-Church (pictured) finished his final day at Yahoo! before joining Adobe in an exciting new position as Senior Product Manager for Flash Designer/Developer relations. For the former Rich Media Evangelist (as he was known at Yahoo!), it is... (more)

On Monday, August 14, IT Professionals from all over the world are set to converge in NYC at the first Real-World Flex Seminar. Focused on Flex, the revolutionary new application development platform from Adobe Systems, Real-World Flex promises to deliver an outstanding education... (more)

In his presentation at the SYS-CON Events "Real-World Flex" One-Day Seminar on Monday, August 14th, in The Roosevelt Hotel in the heart of midtown Manhattan, Jesse Warden (pictured) - a Senior Consultant with Universal Mind, who specializes in Flex, Flash, & Flash Lite developmen... (more)