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My new blog URL...

I have been trying to own www.duvos.com for quite sometime and finally got it recently. This means that I will now be posting from there in the future.

It has been a pleasure to contribute to emearia.eu. I will add a link here to my new blog URL so folks can follow me on both places. In any case, update your feeds with my new location.... http://www.duvos.com

Thanks all!!!

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Flex Perfomance Testing Tools

Over the past weeks there has been a few good announcements/releases around performance testing for Flex applications.

The first one comes from the LC DS QA Engineers at Adobe and it is the updated Adobe Data Services Stress Testing Framework. This new release has been upgraded to support the current LC DS 2.6 Beta and includes key new features and numerous bug fixes.

Borland is also announcing the release of Silk 2008 oriented towards Web 2.0 testing. Not only they are upgrading SilkPerformer 2008 to support Flex applications (and AJAX), but they are also rebuilding their functional and regression-testing tool (SilkTest 2008) on Adobe Flex.

Last but not least, RadView, is also launching a Flex add-on to their WebLOAD solution with support for both AMF0 and AMF3, server-side statistics for both BlazeDS and LC DS, and many more features.

Add all the above to Flex Builder 3 Professional performance and memory profiler, throw some functional testing via the Flex Automated Testing that also comes with FB 3, and you have all you need to make sure your Flex applications run as expected and fast!!!

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Keynote from 360Flex Milan

Some of you have requested the keynote presentation that I did on Monday at 360Flex Milan. You can get to the slides on this url

Thanks

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AIR + LC DS session assets from onAIR Tour

Last week during the onAIR Train Tour I presented a session on leveraging LCDS/BlazeDS within AIR applications. The slides are located on this link and the client side demos over here.

For the remoting and messaging part you can use either BlazeDS or LC DS. For the DataManagement part you will need LC DS 2.5.

You can download LC DS from www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/dataservices/ and BlazeDS from opensource.adobe.com/blazeds

Let me know if you guys have problems/issues. Enjoy!!!

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Note: Credit for the QoS and Contacts samples goes to Christophe Coenraets, from which I based my demos.

360Flex Milan. Free Flex Exams...

Hi all,

As many of you know ( and if u don't I am telling u now ), 360Flex conference is coming to Europe for the first time next week in Milan.

I think it's very worth mentioning that the first day of the conference is free for everyone. Also, Adobe is giving away some free passes to the Flex Developer Certification Exam

Don't miss out on this great conference!!!

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AIR on Linux Alpha available

Hi everyone,

This morning we kicked off the first stop of the onAIR Train tour in Madrid.

I had the privilege of keynoting the  day and showing off the just released Linux version of the AIR runtime. Great news for all of you that running linux on your desktops and want to try and experiment with the AIR runtime.

You can read all about it on http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html

Enjoy it!!!

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MAX 2008 Call for Papers

If anyone is interested in presenting a session at Adobe MAX 2008, or would like a particular topic covered,  the official call for papers opened yesterday.

You can read all about the process at https://adobemax.dabbledb.com/page/callforsessions/NLXYueHm

I encourage everyone to send us their thoughts so we can make MAX 2008 in US, Europe and Japan a great event.

Thanks

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Raiffeisen Bank goes live with Flex

The usage of Flex as a RIA technology in Banking keeps growing. This week, the Polish arm of one of the largest banks in Europe, Raiffeisen Bank, launched a new home site developed in Flex.

You can check it out at http://www.raiffeisen.pl/

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Save the dates....MAX 2008 Europe is here!!!

Hello all,

Just wanted to give u some heads up regarding MAX Europe 2008. The dates and location are confirmed !!!

It will be happening in Milan, Italy on December 1st.

More details to come soon...but make sure you all block your calendars for this great event.

CIAO TUTTI!!!

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Adobe Technology Platform for RIAs. AIR and Flex 3 Now Available

Over the past months we have been playing with various Alphas and Betas of Adobe AIR and Flex 3. Well, the testing period is over and today Adobe announced the immediate availability of both technologies.

Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIR represent a big step forward and along with Adobe Flash® Player they are the foundation of the Adobe technology platform for RIAs.

 

The release of Adobe AIR marks the next wave of RIA innovation by bridging the real-time, dynamic capabilities of the Web with the computing power and data capabilities of the desktop.

At the same time, Adobe is introducing opensource.adobe.com, a centralized resource for Adobe Open Source intiatives and  where the Flex 3 SDK and BlazeDS open source projects will be hosted.

You can read more from the Flex team itself on this post:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flexteam/archives/2008/02/its_on_-_flex_3.cfm

 

Very exciting times are ahead of us!!!

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