Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

Adobe Benelux Sales Engineers will be sharing more and more of their knowledge publicly this year. Next to the DrLivecycle initiatives I announced yesterday, we’ll also be hosting some LiveCycle Up2Date seminars which provide more background information on specific Adobe LiveCycle ES modules.
This Thursday (Netherlands) and next week (Belgium) we’ll be hosting the first seminar, […]

The Adobe Netherlands and Belgium presales team has started the “dr Flex & dr LiveCycle” weblog. Combined with the blog we are hosting a series of small consult-style meetings over the next few months. The idea is to be available one day per month for enterprise level questions and discussions on Adobe LiveCycle ES and […]

Check out www.flugr.nl (love the name!) and join the Dutch Flex User Group  aka Nederlandse Flex User Group.
This is supposed to be a true community where Dutch speaking Flex developers are sharing all relevant information with each other. I am looking forward to some real technical deep sessions coming from them, without the sales pitch […]

[Note: this job opening has been filled per March 1st. Welcome Klaasjan Tukker to Adobe ]
We have a new position open in the Adobe Benelux offices, namely a Business Development Manager for the Creative Pro Market. You will be joining a new-formed team of sales and creative people that spans across the Benelux. […]

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 […]

Forrester has published a Best Practices report on RIA User Experience which is a really good read for everyone involved in RIA-thinking. They list 15 user experience evaluation criteria and review several RIAs against these. What I liked about the report is that they reviewed both AJAX and Flex applications, but don’t fool the reader […]

The December 2006 Flash Player statistics have been published online (have I been sleeping or has no-one picked this up yet?). Flash Player 9 penetration is close to 60% in Europe, quite impressive!

Adobe Netherlands is hosting another Flex Builder introduction seminar on Februari 14th 2007. It will be all about Flex Builder and Flex SDK, targetted to traditional web developers that want to better understand the Flex framework without going too deep into serverside java elements. Click for more information on the Flex Builder seminar.
Note: this session […]