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Hi all,

All set for next meetup.

Date & Time:  19/12/2009 , 2:00 pm To 4:00 pm

Zensar Technologies Ltd.
Zensar Knowledge Park,
Kharadi, Plot #4, MIDC,
Off Nagar Road,
Pune 411 014,

What we all will do ?
1. Flex 4 introduction
2. Creating component in Flex 4
3. Insight on Flex 3 & AIR Certification

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Be there to be ahead

Thanks
Bhavin Padhiyar

Good progress in between two beta

What’s New in Flash Catalyst Beta 2 from Ryan Stewart on Vimeo.

I was away from the flex community for long time. I had came to know about Pune FUG meet from local news paper. I realize that, event will be good opportunity to linkup with the community again. I met all my old friends Anand, Sagar and Himanshu and many more at the Meet. I made few new friends as well like Harish and Priyank.

I enjoyed the Serge’s session . It always a pleasure for us to realize such expert live.

Thanks: Priyank, Anand and FUG for arranging wonder full event. I would say FUG meet is the best place to align your self with the technology. Looking forward to have such events in future.

Thank you all. See you in next FUG

SkinToWinChallenge is over!!! Winners are declared!!! The quality of the themes is really great. Especially the first and the second prize are looking really cool. Congratulation to Alberto Alcaraz and Nahuel Foronda. I had also submitted the almost seven themes for the competition  with motivation of “Air Notebook” and “Adobe MAX” but competition was really tuff.  At the end I am happy for that at least one of my theme is got selected for the spot prize.

Basically, I am not a designer but I play with my curser in free time that gives me great joy.  I have learned lot of skinning techniques during the designing of the themes.  Thanks Event

 As per “Juan Sanchez” blog post the entire theme will be available next week for everyone.

Congratulation to all the winners!!!

Thanks Adobe, Thanks Effective UI, Thanks Juan Sanchez, Thanks all the members who had take a part in the competition.

Recently Flex 4.0 SDK is released. In this release Fx improve developer designer workflow. Not just import flash, Photoshop or AI files into flex builder but true Developer Designer workflow. It means thermo integration, new skin file (FXG) type included , and new name space “2009” will be in place to support new graphic rendering. I guess now every Fx component will have separate skin file which will describe look and feel and function behavior of the component.

When you think of list component in Fx 3.0 or older, what come to your mind?

Ammmm ….. list items can be display in a box with right hand scrollbar, Item can be rendering with itemrenderer and scrollbar can be skinup with .png or flash. Now take look this video and change your mind for list component. In Fx 4.0, every component will be reassemble easily with very less efforts. So, therefor it’s truly amazing Developer Designer workflow in FX 4.0.

Really gr8 going Gumbo

Few days back FlashPlayer 10 (Code name Astro) released, as usual again with new milestones. This version include lots of new feature like native 3D support (Yes it means myMovie.x, myMovie.y and now myMovie.z available), new text rendering engine, custom filters and effects, improved  new drawing methods. All above this feature, I like the most is access of local files within your browser.

http://www.gotoandlearn.com/player.php?id=76

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/demos/

Great going Astro !!!

Finally it come up !!!

I have seen often people are asking for flex training center in india. When I met priyank at Mumbai flex user group meeting, he told that NIIT is working on this curriculum. Since our talk with him nothing had came.

Three to four (6^th Dec 2007) days back I was reading “Times of India” at home. Suddenly I got excited by seeing one advertisement of NIIT institute about new courses for “rich internet application”. They will cover Flash CS3.0, Flex, Dreamwewer and coldfusion during this cource. I really don’t know insight of this course. Click on below image for more information.

I think this initiative help fresher to pickup flex and flash technology very fast. Even this will help to blow RIA technology.

For more information mail edgeineers@niit.com and rush NIIT telephone lines (1800 180 8448).

Robert X. Cringely write very good article on FLASH and PDF today’s stand.

Some of the very good statements he has write.

• Being the owner of two invisible technologies [PDF and Flash] makes Adobe more powerful than most of us can even imagine.
• Adobe absolutely dominates nearly every market for graphical software and is a strong competitor in video, too.
• Adobe is moving into developer tools in a big way to support its grab for mindshare in the interactive/rich web application space where much of the excitement lately seems to be.
• My money is on Adobe simply because of those two invisible weapons, PDF and Flash.
• But invisibility offers no advantage to those who can’t follow through. That’s not Adobe, by which I mean that’s not Flash, which has grown to be so much more than it was ever intended to be.
• By itself, Flash has had an amazing evolution.
• Java applets were fantastic with major shortcomings (huge Java runtime, poor performance, clunky and ugly interface, etc). Flash fixed all or most of those.
• Expect Flash in everything and perhaps even Flash in a chip. Deploying software in hardware is the ultimate DRM.
• And Flash does cross-platform so much better than Java ever did.
• Flash potentially solves all those problems AND creates new opportunities.

Read complete article here.

From years back SEO doesn’t recognize use of flash content in site. May be they are right because googlebot can’t ready each and every visual and text content of the .swf format. And flash is really not medium for SEO, it’s completely visual medium. But still we can use .swf content in SEO friendly web site by taking care of search engine prospective.

Tip for SEO friendly flash content creation

1. Use dynamic text rather then static text and graphics
2. Use “deep linking” new feature of flex 3.0
3. Make two different version of site one should target SEO and another should target usability
4. Place flash content wherever it require in your html page [i.e youTube, Google Earth and Google finance]

One of the google webmaster publish article “Best uses of Flash” can give better vision to SEO to optimum use of flash.