Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

Rich Internet Applications are entering the enterprise and get deployed behind the firewall. Philips - one of the worlds leading technology companies - has recently rolled out a Flex and AIR based application on top of SAP (the AIR app was developed by the guys at Apollogic).
The application is used by Key Account Managers and […]

Last week Philips launched a new product selector on their Consumer Electronics website. I was involved in this project so my opinion is biased, but hopefully you agree that the result is a very nice Rich Internet Application. You can experience the application by going to www.consumer.philips.com and then drill down to a specific product […]

Java development house Quintor is hosting a 4-hour knowledge session on Flex 2 and Java Spring integration. The workshop will be hosted in Amsterdam on 13th of March 2007 in the late faternoon. Unforutunately it looks like I won’t make it myself.
I’ve seen an increased Flex interest with the local Java development houses recently. It’s […]

Good article by Cynergy Systems on what makes a good RIA development practice. Two things in the article actually got my attention - his ‘frustration’ about low priced programmers as well as the mention of the designer - developer workflow.
I’d like to start with quoting Dave his ending note, cause I could not summarize […]

Quick update on some Flex job postings in The Netherlands that I spotted this evening:

Syntel looking for Flex developer to work on financial applications
I know our partner Satama Interactive is looking for some skilled developers
Redline Systems is looking for a Flex developer. Since the add doesn’t provide much details I contacted Redline Systems for more details. This […]

[via Serge Jespers] 3 renowned interactive agencies show you their latest Flex work. DAD, Nascom and Mediacatalyst will tell you why they chose Flex and how they convinced their clients, which difficulties they came across and how they fixed it.
During this session you will see front- and backend (with code samples) of 4 real […]

Adobe is this year again a premium sponsor of the Javapolis event taking place in Antwerp (Belgium), from Dec. 11th up until Dec. 15th. James Ward and Christoph Rooms will be present at the booth and there will be 3 sessions where they’ll talk about Adobe Flex:

There is one in-depth university session on Tuesday Dec 12th where they’ll talk […]

Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam launched a really cool noise monitoring system a few months ago. See It was created with Flex 1.5 as a flexible dashboard with a huge amount of data. The purpose is to display current noise emission data from airplanes that are in the Schiphol area.
The application uses a number of […]

Awesome Flex-based portal for Belgacom TV in Belgium, www.belgacomtv.be. Created by www.DAD.be, subsidiary of LB Icon.
Highlights:

Portal look and feel (nice reference for enterprise customers that consider a next generation customizable portals)
Drag and drop of pods
Multi-lingual application
Rich User Interface
Nice calendar interface

It’s only the first release (they are planning several) and I am impressed with the speed at […]

Adobe invites you to be our guest at the Adobe Developer Evening, where we’ll cover Adobe Flex and Rich Internet Application (RIA) development for Java backends. This seminar is an evening FREE event, created exclusively for Dutch Java Developers on 23 November 2006 - sorry, no Photoshop or Skip Intro will be covered ;-).
You can […]