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17 kwietnia w Warszawie odbędzie się Flash Camp 2010. Jest to najważniejsze wydarzenie roku społeczności Adobe Flash/Flex/AIR w Polsce! Wydarzenie to wiąże się bezpośrednio z inauguracją najnowszego wydania technologii Flex 4 i narzędzia Flash Builder 4.

Wśród prelegentów znajdą się najwybitniejsi polscy specjaliści związani z Platformą Flash. Wykłady zostaną poprowadzone w dwóch ścieżkach dla początkujących i zaawansowanych użytkowników.

Dla osób, które dopiero zamierzają lub zaczynają swoja przygodę z technologiami Adobe osobiście poprowadzę warsztaty z technologii Flex 4 i AIR 2.0 (warsztaty będą prowadzone w systemie BYOL – czyli przynieś swojego laptopa, najlepiej z zainstalowanym już Flash Builder’em 4 ). Oprócz ciekawych prezentacji i warsztatów przewidziano losowanie atrakcyjnych nagród dla publiczności oraz afterparty.

Rejestracja na stronie: http://www.flashcamp.pl/

Agenda wydarzenia:

As you probably know by now Flash Builder 4 with Flex 4 were released yesterday. Along with that, new content was published on Adobe TV. You can find there my video describing new styling and theming capabilities in Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4.

UPDATE (31.03.2010): You can also get this video through iTunes and on YouTube.

Other videos also published:

• Build your first desktop application
  Follow along as James Ward shows you how to build your first desktop application using Flash Builder, Flex and AIR.
  
  
• Flash Builder 4 for ColdFusion Developers
  ColdFusion Evangelist Terry Ryan highlights the flexibility of the data-centric features in Flash Builder 4. He shows off the new workflow for wiring a ColdFusion back-end to a Flex front-end.
  
  
• Build a Dashboard Application in Flex 4
  Adobe Platform Evangelist Michael Chaize offers a step-by-step tutorial on building a dashboard application. He walks you through a Flex 4 project created with the Flash Builder 4 IDE.
  
  
• Build your first Flex 4 application
  Platform Evangelist Serge Jespers describes how to build a Flex 4 application using Flash Builder 4. Discover the benefits of controlling components’ properties such as improved efficiency in managing data.
  
  
• Write Flex and PHP code using Flash Builder 4
  Platform Evangelist Mihai Corlan explains how to write Flex and PHP code using Flash Builder 4 and Zend Studio 7.1. He also illustrates how remoting enables your application to consume PHP services.
  
  
• Debug Flex and PHP code using Flash Builder 4
  In this video, Mihai Corlan discusses how to debug the code of a combined Flex and PHP project using Flash Builder 4 and Zend Studio 7.1. He reviews how to use breakpoints to test your application.
  
  
• Define events in Flex 4 with Flash Builder 4
  Platform Evangelist Mihai Corlan shows how to create components with Flash Builder 4 and ActionScript, and he simplifies how to customize an event dispatch in a Flex 4 project.
  
  
• Styling Flex 4 Components with Flash Builder 4
  Piotr Walczyszyn demonstrates the new theming capabilities in Flash Builder 4 and the new features of the CSS engine that come with Flex 4.

Below you will find links to my e-seminar recording, presentation slides and projects with source code of demo applications:

• Recording on Adobe Connect:
  http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p84912063/
• Presentation on SlideShare:
  http://www.slideshare.net/pwalczyszyn/multitouch-with-flash-and-flex
• Gesture events demo application source code (Flex/AIR):
  http://www.riaspace.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/GesturesFlexDemo.zip
• Touch events demo application source code (Flash/AIR/Apple Phone):
  http://www.riaspace.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/TouchFlashDemo.zip

In the video below I present my new demo of real-time connectivity between applications running on different devices like Apple phone, Nexus One and my Mac. Apple phone runs AIR application built with Flash (source code available here), on the desktop is also an AIR app but built with Flex (source code available here) and on Nexus One is also Flex app (keep in mind that this is not yet Flex Mobile version, source code available here) running in the browser. All of these connect through Java backend with LiveCycle Data Services ES2 (source code available here).

This Wednesday (17.03.2010, 11:00am CET) I will be doing an online e-seminar about “Multitouch development with Flash and Flex”. You will learn how you can start immediately building multitouch enabled applications, what new APIs are coming with FP10.1 and AIR 2.0, what the differences are, and what is supported on underlying operating systems. Please register here: http://multitouchflex.eventbrite.com

This will be 30-minute session followed by a 15-minute Q&A part, done via Adobe Connect room: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/multitouchflex/

During the last few events that I presented at I got asked questions about links to resources that can help beginners start learning Flex. I quickly compiled the list below. I really like Tour De Flex the most; this is actually a resources that I still use myself

• Tour de Flex application: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/tourdeflex/
• Getting started with Flex 3 – http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/pdfs/getting_started_with_Flex3.pdf
• Flex Learning Paths – http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/learn/
• Flex in a Week videos -  http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/
• Flex Quick Starts – http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart.html
• Blog of Flex SDK developers – http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/
• Flex for PHP developers: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/flex_php.html
• AIR training: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/flex/articles/airf15_training.html