Live blogging from Adobe RIA Developer Meet

Here is the summary of live blogging by me, of Adobe RIA Developer Meet at Bangalore. Enjoyed live blogging thoroughly. Lots of useful links and notes below which you might find useful. Specially if you are an AJAX developer.

11:19
I am here at last. Demo of applications built on AIR is in progress.

11:24
Demo of AIR application which brings the online apps to desktop. Like our twirl

11:24
[Comment From Veetrag]
nice...watching live. Wanted to come but busy with work.
11:24
[Comment From topa]
boo!
11:24
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11:24
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11:25
[Comment From topa]
ask em what about of permissions are possible, I wanna know if AIR can access USB-devices, maybe through hooks in Win32 API
11:25
[Comment From topa]
basically can I have a iTunes like app which pulls in media from a site and auto-syncs with my iPod
11:26
@topa: will surely ask it during Q&A
11:26
[Comment From topa]
also tell them the linux beta version sucks :D
11:27
@topa OK :)

11:28
He thinks AIR/Flex can be used for mission critical projects too
11:29
[Comment From Veetrag]
One ques from my side too, Can we just push data from remote m/c for AIR apps or triggers can be pushed too.
11:30
[Comment From topa]
tell him to run his mission critical apps on Linux and see them vanish :P
11:31
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11:32
[Comment From Prasoon]
They'll show off their media player on AIR i am sure - ask them for subtitle support when we watch movies there
11:32
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11:33
@Veertag u mean push instead of pull?
11:34
Here is the Flex online community http://flex.org
11:35
[Comment From topa]
also ask them why Flex why flex is not truly truly opensource /
11:38
[Comment From Veetrag]
Yeah, something like, I want a alert box be pushed to desktop app from server asking for options.
11:39
Flex for Java developers. https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a227210/p60809699/
11:42
[Comment From topa]
also ask them if they have plans to make Flex compile to non-Flash runtimes like openlaszlo which supports DHTML
11:46
Session on Architecting Flex App.. I am not interested. Will probably go out and have a coffee.
11:48
I have noted all questions. Will probably ask them at the end. Outside the hall now.
11:58
@prsn they did show their video player. It looks pretty cool and it can download the video from online services for offline view.
12:14
[Comment From topa]
whatever happened to tamarin
12:15
Q: Somebody is asking about training/material/conf in India.
A: Anybody with good OO concepts should be able to pick up Flex. And he thinks http://flex.org is going to help in start

12:16
@topa There is 2 hour meet the flex team after noon. So I will put these questions during that session.
12:17
[Comment From boda]
guru namaskaraaaa...
12:54
[Comment From Vinay]
Howz the conference going? Yella gnyapka itkondiru guru... I'll ask u to teach me later :D
12:57
@veertag answer to your question is blazeds http://opensource.adobe.com/blazeds
1:00
From Dcooper : With BlazeDS, developers can easily connect to back-end distributed data, as well as push data in real-time to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR applications for more responsive RIA experiences. BlazeDS is being contributed to open source under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL v3) – the same license used by Red Hat/JBoss, which is good.
1:02
Java Spring Developers have a look at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/blazeds_spring_02.html
1:15
[Comment From Vinay]
Dude... is cloud computing a part of any of the discussions?
1:16
@Vinay NO. This is about rich internet applications.
1:33
AIR apps use webkits for rendering. Running on Safari would be a good way of testing while coding.
1:44
Wow its so easy to build an AIR app. Code in HTML/JS and then convert.
1:44
Now James is on the stage
1:45
http://www.jamesward.org/wordpress/ RIA cow boy
2:06
Wow i want to build a client using AIR + GMAPS + Twitter or a FriendFeed client
2:14
This demo http://www.jamesward.org/myTube/myTube.html to show your fav youtube videos is just awesome. Its just 20 lines of code.
2:19
Thanks to James that was gr8
2:24
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2:28 [Video file] YouTube: qwymAaJMjhk Play
2:29
Intro to Adobe Air by lockergnome
3:19
Srini from a online gaming company (??) is talking about solution built on Flex.
3:36
BO Labs is demoing BI widgets on AIR. This is great for any business user. So user friendly and looks awesome.
3:37
[Comment From Vinay]
If possible take some pics man (I presume you maybe already doing that :) ). We can have a look at what they are in one of your blog articles.
3:38
BO reports look great on AIR. we should demo this to some insurence/banking clients.
3:51
For all the testers there: demo from RADVIEW webload - load testing application for AJAX/Flex application.
3:58
We have 4 guys on the stage who are demoing their products built on stage. Only the guy from cognizant is in suit and is giving power point presentation. So boring :)
4:01
Mint has a very good Flex application. Check this http://www.jamesward.org/wordpress/2008/01/21/mint-chooses-flex/ I am going to use Mint :)
4:11
Best practice session for FLEX by James
4:37
lot of gyaan on what to do and not to do with Flex
4:52
[Comment From Veetrag]
One more query Thej, Can you ask what will it take for enterprise to accept Flex fully? e.g. When can banking industry make full apps using Flex? It works perfectly for RIA, mashups but still enterprise is very reluctant to use it.
5:04
@veertrag there was demo by business object guy about report AIR application. I will try to catch him and ask ur Q.
5:15
Not very interesting questions. Some very obvious questions.
5:18
Q: Jame do we have coding conventions for Action Script?
A: Yes. I have my own.
5:20
:)
5:21
There are so many developer level questions!
5:48
@veetrag the guy is out. But I have his card.
6:07
Mrinal Wadhwa http://weblog.mrinalwadhwa.com/ is on stage. He is talking about community. and seems like he is streaming live qik http://qik.com/mrinalwadhwa
6:09
Indian Flex Community site.
6:13
typo. url is http://www.flex-india.org
6:31
I am closing. Done for the day. Its been great fun blogging live. I will try to do this often. May be Qik too.