Adobe’s ‘Build an app in a week’ For India

Adobe is conducting 9 online seminars at times that are convenient for people in India.

• June 7th : 16:30  – 17:30
  Erase the Designer to Developer gap: Adding interactions to your design with Serge Jespers
• June 7th : 20:30  – 21:30
  Connecting your design to PHP services with Mihai Corlan
• June 8th : 16:30  – 17:30
  Connecting a web application to a J2EE backend using Flash Builder 4 with Michael Chaize
• June 8th : 20:30  – 21:30
  Working with Flash CS5 components in your Flash Builder 4 project with Mike Jones
• June 9th : 16:30  – 17:30
  Going multi-user with P2P in Flash Player 10.1 with Tom Krcha
• June 9th : 20:30  – 21:30
  Developing multi-user applications with LiveCycle services with Tom Krcha
• June 10th : 16:30  – 17:30
  Bringing web Applications to the desktop with AIR 2.0  with Piotr Walczyscyn
• Jun 10th : 20:30  – 21:30
  Code once and run on multiple mobile devices with Mark Doherty

Build an app in a week is intended to teach you about the Adobe® Flash® Platform, including Adobe® Flex®, Adobe® Flash® Builder™, Adobe® AIR®, Adobe® Flash® Player, and how it integrates with Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 technologies. This weeklong event features free, live webinars presented by Adobe technology experts. See live demos and have your questions answered by the experts during interactive Q&A sessions.

Who should attend?

• Web designers
• Web developers
• Application developers
• Rich Internet Application developers
• Interactive design specialists

What you will learn
By attending this e-seminar series you will be able to create your own Rich Internet Application at the end of the week, using all the power of Flash Platform, in combination with the device and technology of your choice. 

What Do You Need to Participate?
Online live webinars are scheduled events simulcast over the web via Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro. You’ll need a computer with a browser, Adobe Flash player and Internet connection. Voice-Over IP will broadcast over your computer. Access details will be provided once you register.

You can find more detail on the registration site here: http://www.adobe.co.uk/appinaweek

Prototyping Experiences – My talk @ Adobe Dev Summit 2009

Here are the slides of my talk at Adobe Dev Summit 2009 – Chennai & Hyderabad on Rapid Prototyping.

I was pleasantly surprised at the number of people who were interested in the science of Prototyping. The industry and the community has always regarded Prototyping as an optional phase in the idea-to-market process. While many other industries like mobile, automobile, mechanical have embraced Prototyping long ago, the software world still seem to be a bit reluctant in realizing the advantage and relevance of this science. Looks like more and more people are waking up 😉 …. The audience seem to be growing larger and larger with every talk I do on this subject and thats a good sign 🙂 …

Dislaimer: Some slides in the above PPT have been re-used in multiple talks to people of USiD 2009, NID – Bangalore, IIT-Kanpur Tech Tour.

Adobe Flex Intro PPT posted

A couple of weekends ago, I did a presentation for The Chennai Cold Fusion User Group (CCFUG Homepage). Am posting the ppt here. The presentation covered the basics – intro to RIAs, intro to Adobe Flex, a couple of examples and a little bit about Adobe AIR. Check it out… if you have nothing else to do 😉 … The audience were cold fusion developers who were new to Adobe Flex and Adoe AIR. I touched the basics and then walked them through some code examples of Flex and Air.

Check out some snaps from the event and check out this post by Akbar after the event. You may also want to check out the CCFUG homepage at http://www.cfugind.com.

[Component] CForm v1.0

CForm is all about creating data entry screens. This component allows developers to create standardized forms/CRUD screens in their applications. The CForm component is a Data Entry component that can be very useful if –

1. you are building business applications with many data entry/view screens
2. you are working with a lot of developers. each handling separate screens/modules
3. you wish all your screens to have the standard look & feel across the application
4. you wish to avoid different developers/designers designing their own UI/UX paradigms for their specific screens

Let me try to explain this in a very simplified manner. CForm reads XML file to create user entry forms. To implement CForm, the following steps are involved.

• Developer creates XML file for each screen. The XML will contain the list of fields, controls to be used etc.
• CForm is called in an MXML.
• Now, the developer can use many of CForm’s exposed methods to access/manipulate data in the CForm.

The Demo walks you through a few use cases of how CForm can be used in real world. There are clear instructions on each example in the demo. For a detailed documentation on the XML part of this component, check out here and for the AS and MXML angle check out below. The source code will also be made available shortly in a 2 or 3 weeks. As of now, if you need the source code you will have to check it out from the SVN repository at http://flexedtoolkit.googlecode.com/. If you like this component and would be willing to extend a helping hand, send me a mail 😉 .

If you have any questions/suggestions after viewing the demo, leave a comment on this page!!

**Update: Compiled SWC now available for download.

[ SWC | Demo | XML Documentation | Source of Example ]