http://www.waldosmeets.com Sales Engineer from Adobe Benelux on Rich Internet Applications, Web 2.0 and Adobe Flex in the Benelux. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:42:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.waldosmeets.com/2008/04/16/flex-user-group-netherlands-ready-to-launch/ [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 ... http://www.waldosmeets.com/2007/10/24/adobe-benelux-is-hiring-a-business-development-manager-for-the-creative-pro-market/ 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 ... http://www.waldosmeets.com/2007/10/21/adobe-magazine-on-customer-engagement/ 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 ... http://www.waldosmeets.com/2007/10/04/philips-uses-flex-and-air-on-top-of-sap/ Adobe MAX Europe is less than a month away, and we already have more than 100 registrations of designers and developers from Belgium and Netherlands. Whilst MAX is a great event to network across Europe and to meet experts from Adobe, it apparently also is a great opportunity to meet ... http://www.waldosmeets.com/2007/09/18/belgium-and-netherlands-bring-100-designers-and-developers-to-adobe-max-europe/ 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 ... http://www.waldosmeets.com/2007/09/11/philips-consumer-electronics-launches-flex-based-product-selector/ I will be attending Adobe MAX Europe, which takes place in beautiful Barcelona, and will also present a session on Flex Builder 3. MAX Europe looks like one of the best conferences we've had in Europe since ages, I am really looking forward to learning a lot from all the ... http://www.waldosmeets.com/2007/09/11/attending-adobe-max-europe-barcelona/ 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 ... http://www.waldosmeets.com/2007/03/14/previewing-adobe-apollo-and-creative-suite-next-week-at-spinawards-dat/ 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, ... http://www.waldosmeets.com/2007/03/06/forrester-report-reviews-rias-and-lists-experience-design-focus-areas/ 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 ... http://www.waldosmeets.com/2007/03/02/knowledge-session-flex-2-within-a-java-spring-environment/