Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

Recently I was asked by a large system integrator about Adobe’s standpoint on the Business Process Modelling Notation (BMPN) specification.
Not many people know that Adobe participates in quite some industry standards and supports their maturity/evolution such as BPMN, BPEL, BPDM and XPDL and that we are voting members of standard bodies such as OMG, OASIS [...]

Tags: bpmn, business process modelling, livecycle es, workbench

[from my DrFlex blogpost]
Disease:
You have built an amazing cool and data intense Rich Internet Application with Adobe Flex and expect many users to work with your application. Suddenly you get concerned; how will the server behave when hundreds or even thousands of users visit your site?
Prescription:
Some more background on this problem first; You probably know [...]

I received an email (in Dutch) from one of the members of the Dutch Flex user group FLUGR with a call for papers (sorry, Dutch only). If you have cool ideas to present during the Flex Camp they’d love to receive your submissions!

Op 13 november 2008 vindt een “Flex Camp” plaats, met onder [...]

We released a very interesting dutch magazine on Customer Engagement (request print here) that we created for Adobe Business Exchange - the conference for business and marketing managers regarding Customer Engagement through the internet which takes place in The Hague on October 25th.
The magazine has the subtitle “The challange of customer engagement - stay [...]

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 [...]

We’ll be sneak-peaking the upcoming releases of Adobe Create Suite 3 and Adobe Apollo - exclusively to the award nominees - next week during the SpinAwards Day.
Obviously this is ‘top secret’, but if you are attending the day-program and are one of the nominees to present it’s work to the jury, you’ll get the opportunity [...]

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 [...]