Announcing a series of web conferences organized by Adobe Romania

On February 2nd we will host the first conference from a series of conferences about web technologies and development. Our presenter will be Vincent Hardy, principal scientist at Adobe Systems.

See you on February 2nd!

You can find more info about this conference and register here (the presentations will be in English).

PS. I am so happy to see this finally get started as I’ve been working on it for some time.

January 16, 2012 | Filed Under Conferences | Leave a Comment 

Bucharest Flash Camp 2011

This Friday we will host a Flash Camp in our Bucharest office. The event starts at 5:00 PM and will end at 8:00 PM. If you have questions about what was announced at MAX, if you want to find out what’s coming next, or if you want to learn how you can start mobile development with our tools, runtimes, and frameworks then make plans to be there. There are still a few seats left so you can go here and register.

This event is a premiere because for the first time I will have the pleasure of co-presenting  (a Romanian event) with one of my American teammates: Ryan Stewart. So that is another reason to be there :)

And finally, we will have a hands-on session on getting startet with mobile development with Flex, AIR, and Flash Builder. So if you never tried Flex mobile and you want to learn the basics then you have a third reason to be there.

See you Friday!

Registration link.

November 9, 2011 | Filed Under Conferences | Leave a Comment 

Flex Mobile European Tour 2011

With almost all the bits and pieces falling nicely in place I can finally blog about the European tour we’ve been working on. Before talking about content, dates, and locations let me say loud and clear “Thank you!” to the people in our community who worked hard to make these events possible and to Magda Neagu and John Koch, my colleagues who gave us all the support we needed.

Why am I saying us instead of I? Because I have the pleasure of doing this tour together with my friend and fellow evangelist Ryan Stewart.

Here is the list:

  1. November 3rd – Vienna / Austria
  2. November 4rd – Rome / Italy
  3. November 7th – London / UK
  4. November 9th – Kiev / Ukraine
  5. November 10th – Berlin / Germany
  6. November 11th – Bucharest / Romania
  7. November 14th – Zurich / Swiss
  8. November 15th – Dublin / Ireland
  9. November 17th – Barcelona / Spain
    1. We will do a session at Barcelona DevCon
    2. We will have a meeting with the local Flex and Flash user group. I will update this post once I have the location and date
  10. November 19th – Zagreb / Croatia

If you want to attend one of these events make sure you register today because the number of seats is limited.

In terms of content, we will do a hands-on on mobile development with Flex, Adobe AIR, and Flash Builder. We will also have sessions about mobile development and some of the cool things we announced at MAX. And this will provide you with the perfect opportunity to throw questions at us. Actually let me re-phrase this: it will be the perfect opportunity to ask Mr. Ryan Stewart anything you want to know :).

Last but definitely not the least, if you have a cool project and you want to show it to us, please don’t be shy. Come to us after the event or during one of the breaks and we will listen to you. We always love seeing the great stuff you build and listening to your feedback. If you are reading my blog you know that from time to time I blog about cool apps and projects.

PS. If you plan to attend one of our hands-on sessions then you should have Flash Builder installed on your laptop. Also, if you have an Android phone you will be able to run all the examples on your device too (you will need a USB cable to connect the device to your laptop). Otherwise you can use the Flash Builder desktop simulator.

October 27, 2011 | Filed Under Conferences | 6 Comments 

Speaking at ZendCon 2011

This week I’ll be at the ZendCon PHP Conference in Santa Clara. I will have a session on Flex and PHP mobile development for iOS, Android, and PlayBook on Thursday starting at 9:15 AM.

If you plan to attend this conference make sure you drop by to say hello. We will have a booth in the exposition area next to Zend’s booth.

I’m really excited to be part of this conference. First, it is my first PHP conference in the States – so far I’ve been speaking only at European conferences. And second, it has been a while since my last PHP conference. I think I will have a great time catching up with what the PHP community is doing these days. I already picked up some sessions that I’m sure will blow my mind :)

Now straight to the airport! A long trip awaits me!

October 17, 2011 | Filed Under Conferences | Leave a Comment 

Adobe MAX 2011

Adobe MAX 2011 is just around the corner. Every year I feel the same: how fast the last year has passed! I guess I have a better feeling of how the time is passing by counting the MAXs :D

Anyway let’s get back to the event itself. There are many reasons for wanting to attend Adobe MAX (learning new products and technologies, staying in touch with the latest and greatest, and networking just to name few) but if you plan to start mobile development or to learn new tricks then here is a list I put together.

Beginner

Intermediate / Advanced

I want to call out these sessions:

My team has been working lately on a number of mobile applications so we have lots of experience earned first-hand. I encourage you to attend Renaun’s, Ryan’s, and Paul’s sessions.

See you there and don’t forget you’ll be able to watch the keynotes online if you don’t plan to attend the event in person. Let’s rock the house once again!

September 19, 2011 | Filed Under Conferences | 1 Comment 

Bucharest Mobile Camp 2011

On June 20th we’ll host a Mobile Camp in the Bucharest Adobe office. If you want to learn about mobile development for Android, iOS, and PlayBook using Adobe tools and frameworks make sure you’ll be there.

For my session I was thinking of showing AIR applications and how you can build them. I’m also open to the idea of letting you show off your mobile apps created with Adobe AIR and Flex/ActionScript. So, if you have such an app just send me an email and we will see how we can fit this in my session.

Finally, we will have a special guest: Sanyu Kiriluta of RIM. She is EMEA Team Lead Developer Relations. If you haven’t seen a PlayBook and want to find more about it, then join her session.

We might have a special guest for the keynote. I will update the post as soon as I have more information.

In the mean time go to the registration page and see you on June 20th (if you don’t know how to get to our office, take a look here)!

June 8, 2011 | Filed Under Conferences | 13 Comments 

Flash Camp San Francisco

I’m happy to announce that at the end of this month (April 30th) we will have a Flash Camp in the San Francisco Adobe offices. If you want to be sure that you get a seat register here now (it is a free event).

The event will be focused on mobile development using Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5. It will be a code-camp style event, with sessions in the morning (10:00 – 12:00) and building code in the afternoon (1:00 – 5:00).

Of course it will be a good opportunity to meet people from the teams (Flash Builder and Flex SDK).

See you there (probably a little bit jetlagged)!

April 19, 2011 | Filed Under Conferences | Leave a Comment 

gotoAndSki() – 2011 Edition

One of the best conferences I attended and spoke at in 2010 was gotoAndSki() Norway. I wouldn’t be surprised if you haven’t heard of. I mean it was quite small and the location was rather remote. So, why do I think it was so good? First of all, the guys behind this event are amazing. I met them at the first Flex Camp in Oslo back in 2009 and I enjoyed their company during the event and afterward, while doing some late night A/B testing of different types of beer :D (Does FlashMagazine.com and Jens Christian ring a bell?)

Second, conferences have always been about people and connecting people. Of course a good track of sessions and speakers makes the backbone of any good conference, but without the social network there would always be something missing.

And this is exactly where Jens and his buddies excelled this year. They had a great idea to organize a three day conference and put the sessions in the evening/night and the social activities during the day. This way all the attendees had a chance to really talk and know each other better while skiing, trekking, eating Norwegian food, and yes, drinking beer.

People think that going out and drinking lot of beer after the last session it is the best way to make acquaintances. I’m not saying it is a bad method. I’m just saying it isn’t necessarily the best method for a bunch of developers. I mean just imagine–you’ve always been a geek and loved to code during
high-school/university and you haven’t partied that much. Naturally, you decided to become a software engineer and here comes your first conference. Surprise, surprise if you want to bond with the attendees you have to be a beer master :D. Is this cognitive dissonance or what? Apologizes for my rant :D

Jens idea was to have the conference organized each year in a different country. So, I’m proud to announce on my blog that the 2011 edition – organized by Fernando Colaco – will take place in Switzerland, January 27-29. There are only 100 tickets, so if you want to experiment something different in a beautiful country hurry up and register here.

I just checked the sessions and I have to say I can’t wait to attend them – you can learn about making games, working with Arduino, developing for TV, Flash accessibility and much more.

In the end I want to take my hat off to Jens and Fernando for putting together an event like no other, at least here in Europe. And I’m curious where it will go next year!

PS. Fernando sent me a message telling me that actually they decided to have a summer edition and a winter edition in the same countries each year. What can I tell? They broke my heart; I had a vision about organizing one edition in the Carpathian mountains maybe with the help of my fellow evangelist, Ryan Stewart.

December 21, 2010 | Filed Under Conferences | 3 Comments 

Bucharest Flash Camp 2010 – Recordings & Slides

I’ve finally finished uploading the recordings from the last week’s Bucharest Flash Camp 2010. I want to thank you, guys, for joining and staying with us late in the evening. I think it was one of the best camps we’ve had in our office and one of the reasons was you – because you asked a lot of questions and we had a lot of interaction.

The event was in Romanian. Read more

December 16, 2010 | Filed Under Conferences | 1 Comment 

Flash Camp Bucharest 2010 – Live Streaming

Today, we’ll host the last Flash Camp of this year in the Adobe Bucharest office. And because every time we organize an event in our office, many of you ask for live streaming or recording, we decided to do just that :D

So, today December 7th starting at 5PM (Romanian time) you’ll be able to watch the live streaming here: http://corlan.org/flashcamp/

One more thing, we are optimistic that everything will go right with this live streaming/recording. However, the setup is quite complex. My friend Dragos Dascalita (who will have a session on this subject – how to set up live streaming) took care of all the tiny bits (2 professional video cameras, audio/video mixer, server infrastructure, and so on). And because there are so many parts involved there is no guarantee everything will run accordingly to the plan.

Oh, almost forgot, the event is in Romanian so I apologize to those who want to participate but don’t speak Romanian.

December 7, 2010 | Filed Under Conferences | 9 Comments 

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