Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

[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 [...]

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 [...]