I’m in Amsterdam this week for Spark Europe and will be speaking on “Introduction to Flex 2.0″.

In the session give a good overview of what Flex 2 is all about, how it relates to the rest of the Flash Platform, briefly cover the new player, ActionScript 3.0, MXML, the Framework, and even attempt to build a simple application on stage. My goal with this session is to give people a good understanding of all the components and what their role is in Flex and allow them to get up to speed more quickly because of it. Flex 2 is a big step that any RIA developer will be interested in

Spark looks to be an excellent event. It has been very well organized and thought out, the speaker lineup and session are excellent and the venue rocks. If you will be attending make sure to say hello!

Just wanted to point to http://labs.macromedia.com/ which just went live. Will post more thoughts later. Let the fun begin

I’m about to head to the airport to catch my flight to California to attend MAX 2005. I wasn’t originally planning on going to MAX this year but changed my mind last minute. This will most likely be the last MAX conference under the Macromedia brand, and the recent Flash platform news is huge.. so I guess I wanted to share in the history making

If you are going make sure to say hi!

I have a position on my team for a kick ass Flash Developer. Here are some details.

Job needs
1. Expert in Flash and AS2
2. Expert in OOP
3. Experience in developing components and component based development is a plus
4. Prior speaking engagements, developer community involvements is a plus
5. Experience with Flash Communication Server is a plus
6. Experience in Flex is a plus
7. Experience in back-end technologies is a plus

Job Description:
The job entails working as part of the development team building Products and Solutions using Macromedia Flash technologies (90% of what we do is product development). This is strictly a development position, although design skills are a plus but not required.

This is an on-site position in Silver Spring, MD (15 minutes from down town Washington D.C.). We are a small, financially stable company with a love for technology. If you are looking for a place to grow, be part of a top-notch team, have your voice be heard, and learn, this is the place. Re-location can be discussed

If interested, please email me chafic at atellis dot com

I’ve been busy for the past few months as a few close friends know setting up a new company called Atellis with my partner Lucas Huang. I haven’t been at B-Line Express for months now but held off on blogging it until everything was officially in place.

So what am I working on? Atellis’s main focus will be product development incidentally using RIA technologies. The plan is to focus most of our efforts on product development and the other on high-end consulting. I’m very excited about it all!

As part of the setup, the new company will be in charge of one of the products I helped build while at B-Line Express for assessing medical students which some might have seen me present about at conferences. I really enjoy working on this product and will continue to enhance, support and sell the product under the new company. Unfortunately I will no longer be involved in BLDoc or the Charting Components and actually haven’t been for a few months.

We are starting up with 9 people and already have a good list of clients from our core product. Now that I have gotten things setup, look for more active blogging too. Lot’s of stuff is happening with Macromedia and I’m looking forward to continue sharing with the community

Visit Atellis (still nothing there, but hopefully in not too long)
Visit B-Line Medical (This is the division of Atellis that will handle the existing product and products focused on the medical industry)