Archive for June, 2009
Flextech finally at Adobe Groups
This week I got an info that Flextech User Group got registered at Adobe Groups. If you want to join this group you can find it here: http://groups.adobe.com/groups/05e8d70699/summary It is based out of Wrocław Poland. Of course their official blog is here http://blog.flextech.pl but I think everyone in Polish community already knows that 
Important to note here is that Flextech is not a new group. Actually guys behind it (especially Paweł Cichoń) are one of the most active Flex community supporters in Poland! Big kudos for Paweł and his crew for doing really great job, keep it up guys!!!
I’m really proud that Polish Flash Platform Community is becoming really strong and active. We could also see it last week at Warsaw Flash Camp (checkout the photo review) event were we had incredible atmosphere with unbelievable attendance.
Warsaw Flash Camp 2009
Tomorrow is a big day for Polish Flash community. We are having a Flash Camp event in Warsaw! The day is expected to be really amazing in terms of content and expected 300 attendees. For those that cannot attend in person there will be streaming available at: http://flashcamp.istream.pl/
Agenda and more datails is available here: http://g-media.pl/aug/flashCamp/
RIA Freaks – new user group in Poland!
Lets spin Polish RIA scene…
I got a message today that new Polish Adobe User Group was created (RIA Freaks – http://www.riafreaks.com/). It is located ouf of Toruń (this is the town of Nicolaus Copernicus) and it is gathered around University of Mikołaj Kopernik staff and students. I think these guys there are trying to follow Copernicus and are actually one of the most advanced RIA enabled universities in Poland. You can check their TV at http://tv.umk.pl/, which is full featured Internet TV website with live campus video streams and recorded events, lectures and interviews.
If you want to join this group at Adobe Groups the link is here: http://groups.adobe.com/groups/887feaa4c1/summary
If I counted correctly on Adobe Groups we have 7 officially registered groups out of Poland. I encourage anyone who is passionate about Adobe technologies and products to open up new groups in their cities. This way you can connect with other people sharing similar interests, knowledge or job. Also you can meet other members outside your area as there is over 700 groups registered world wide. As an Adobe we will provide you with some benefits like, software licenses, access to weekly presentations, access to selected beta programs and many others. So feel free to register at Adobe Groups and create your new user group!
Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst betas released!
Today we released first betas of Flash Builder 4 (formerly known as Flex Builder) and Flash Catalyst. This was long awaited release as we could already feel its taste with public and open releases of Flex 4 SDK. Now the tools and SDK are available on Adobe Labs http://labs.adobe.com.
This release brings a lot of new features and improvements especially to Flex skinning and styling architecture. There is whole new framework introduced called Spark that allows full separation between UI component logic and their look. For better designer and developer workflow Flash Catalyst comes in hand supporting import of artwork from tools like Photoshop or Illustrator and converting it to Flex components.
When it comes to developer productivity improvements there are very noticeable changes in compiler performance, integrated into Flash Builder FlexUnit test wizzards, asdocs support in code hinting and I think also very much awaited code indentation.
We have also released interesting articles where you can learn more:
and some videos:
