Riding on the onAir bus this week

Posted on August 21, 2007 by chafic

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I just got on the Adobe onAir bus tour in DC yesterday and will be on board through Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston. On the bus tour I’m presenting on AIR’s windowing capabilities including coverage of NativeWindow, its related API, and the AIR Window Flex component. This should give attendees a good start on how to work with windows with Adobe AIR.

onair bus 2007 logo

I’ll blog some more sometime this week. If you are attending any of the events make sure to say hello!

Programming Flex 2.0 Shipping!

Posted on April 19, 2007 by chafic

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After all the work Joey and I have put into the book, it’s awesome to be able to see it in my hands. Here’s a picture of for everyone

Programming Flex Picture

I want to take this chance to thank Joey, the O’Reilly team, the editors, and Adobe for all their help throughout the past year. Flex is an awesome technology and I’m hoping people find this book helps developers get introduced to Flex and gain insights into this new technology. Also, since this is a book published by O’Reilly, I thought I would share a picture with the man himself, Tim O’Reilly who I had the pleasure of getting to meet recently.

Me and Tim Oâ€™Reilly

If you are looking to get your hands on the book you buy it from Amazon who should already have it shipping (Although the status of the page says it is not shipping yet)

Last chapter in the book done!

Posted on February 9, 2007 by chafic

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I just finished writing the last words of the last chapter in the book! We still need to go through some editing, but all writing in the book is done and production has begun!

MAXUP Looks Great! MAX Just Got Better

Posted on October 20, 2006 by chafic

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I always thought MAX was a great conference, but this year thanks to MAXUP it has gotten even better. The thing that I always found not enough of at MAX was the community, and MAXUP brings just that. With 38 confirmed speakers, and a ton of interesting sessions, make sure you don’t miss it. It’s going to be tough scheduling between MAXUP and MAX, but I’ll have to find a way.
Along with my session at MAX which I will be giving twice, I also will be giving two mini-sessions (I say mini cause most MAXUP sessions are 15 minutes) on developing Application Components and Missions Critical Application Architecture.

Speaking at MAX on Flex and .NET Interoperability

Posted on October 18, 2006 by chafic

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Next week MAX will be held in Vegas and will be under the Adobe name for the first time. I’ll be there and will be speaking as well on Flex and .NET Interoperability. I’m looking forward to be giving this session as I believe there is a lot to be said about Flex and .NET, and there doesn’t seem to be enough resources on the topic. Actually I’m always amazed at how little the .NET development community knows about Flex/Flash. On my team, we have had great success with .NET as our back-end system and Flex as our rich client technology, and am a strong believer that they are very complimentary platforms.

In the session I plan to cover

Different communication mechanisms (AMF/Flash Remoting, XML, Sockets)
Debugging
Tips from experience

If you missed this session when you initially setup your schedule that is because there was a change only a few weeks ago on the session topic, but it should be available now in the MAX scheduling system. If you are attending MAX, make sure to say hello. I always enjoy meeting fellow developers. If you aren’t attending MAX, I don’t think it is too late to show up