You know what? I found the jump very easy and those guys at Adobe’s hq did a wonderful job on driving people into this new release of the Flex framework.
I’m not posting some code this time, just a link to a project which can be sooooooo helpful to take your dive: “Flex in a Week”.
Nothing hard, just take your time, your headphones and a good internet connection, drive your browser to http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/flex4beta/index.html and start from the beginning…
If you’re not new to flex programming it will take you half a day to get into this new baby.

bye for now

Did you remember “Pacifica” project? Now it’ [UPDATE: Adobe Stratus is a rendezvous service for RTMFP, a new protocol built in to Flash Player 10 and AIR 1.5. Neither RTMFP nor Stratus are related to the project codenamed Pacifica.] Something new is on adobe labs and its name is “Stratus“..WONDERFUL!

Let’s explain what i’m talking about:

Stratus is “hosted rendezvous service that aids establishing communications between Flash Player endpoints”.
This technology enables clients’ flash player (10 +, or AIR 1.5) to connect directly each other to share runtime informations…actually PEER TO PEER!! (underline this: Stratus is a service by Adobe, not a technology to run on own servers).

Stratus does support only “end to end” p2p, multicast or swarming are not supported. This means we’re not enabled to create a new air-mule service over stratus, but we can build our p2p video chat, p2p real time games, etc…

Stratus introduces a new data transfer protocol: RTMFP, which uses UDP instead of clean RTMP which uses TCP. (note, RTMFP is not RTMP*, which is the encrypted protocol for FMS).

Stratus is now beta, and you can test a sample application hosted on the labs Stratus page…

Stratus is going to be released next year (hopefully “early”) …it seems we’re going to have real time “anything” in few months

This could be a new red pill for our webapps,
Stay tuned

Sorry for the nerdy title guys, but as I wrote that it sounded sooooo nicely!

Anyway, here’s the news: FlexCamp moved inside Adobe Max Europe (w00t!) and will take place on 30th November in Milan.
Further, every flexcamp attendee will have a HUGE discount on Adobe Max ticket.

Take a look at flexcamp official site to have more informations, anyway… wow… I’m going to speak at Max… It’s an amazing news isn’t it? let’s say woot all together

see you soon in Milan

Yep, I’m going to be an attendee at Flash on the Beach 08 next week. I bought the ticket, booked a flight and a room at myHotel and right now it’s time to plan my schedule.

I’m really enthusiastic of getting there, I use to read blogs of speakers I never met yet and it will be a pleasure to listen and talk to them “live”, further, I’m meeting again some great people I knew at 360 Flex in Milan such as Neil, Koen, Zohar (yes, I installed kaltura plugin for wordpress ), Franto, and many others (and even my best friend Luca )

Back in topic… here’s my own schedule:

Day 1 – Monday 29th
09:00 – Keynote
10:15 – Carlos Ulloa: The best way to predict the future is to invent it
11:30 – Branden Hall: Brilliant ideas I’ve blatantly stolen
13:30 – Mark Anders: A preview of Flex 4 and “Thermo”
14:45 – Tink: Flex effects: transitions as design elements OR Richard Lord: creating particle effects with Flint
16:00 – Erik Natzke: Beyond the Knowledge: The Art of Play

Day 2 – Tuesday 30th
09:00 – Aral Balkan: Welcome to the cloud
10:15 – Adobe: Town hall meeting
11:30 – Grant Skinner: Things Every Actionscript Developer Should Know
13:30 – Chris Allen: Building Red5 Applications
14:45 – Lee Brimelow: Platform Jiu-Jitsu

Day 3 – Wednesday 1st
09:00 – Rob Bateman: Finding Away3D
10:15 – Seb Lee-Delisle: Papervision3D simplified
11:30 – Doug McCune: Decompiling Flex and Flash
13:30 – Koen de Weggheleire: Play With Pixels, bitmap manipulation with AS3
14:45 – Mario Klingemann: Here be Pixels

mmm…I really think I’m going to have a great time there in UK (hey, it’s my first time in UK…it MUST be great! )

stay tuned for comments and follow ups

What’s next here in Italy?

1) onAir Tour stops in Milan on friday 13 june

2) Colin Moock lands in Milan for his “from the ground up tour” on monday 23 june

…exciting newsss

Here’s the link to download Astro’s API documentation: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_as3langref_052008.zip

At this time it’s only available for download, not for online consultation.

It’s time to upgrade!
Astro is here!

Let’s take a look to what chefs cooked up for our taste pleasure:

1. 3D support: finally adobe put some z in flash!:D on astro release notes Adobe’s claiming that they’re enabling everyone to create complex 3D effects using simple code… mmm… i’m curious about that! i’m a papervisioned guy!
2. hardware acceleration: flash player 9.0.115 introduced hardware acceleration… astro is becoming even friendlier with your gpu. Now flash player supports GPU compositing and blitting, both parameters must be enabled by html.
3. Adobe Pixel Bender: formerly Hydra (which was a cooler name ), this system let us create our own custom filters and apply them runtime..
4. New text engine! Multiple columns text, support for chinese (GB18030 )
5. Speex! a free codec used to encode speech….Ribbit thanx while pacifica voip project is waiting…
6. Dynamic sound generation!…Andr√© Michelle’s “Adobe make some noise” petition really made some noise!
7. File reference runtime access! Finally we don’t have to upload our files to manipulate them inside our RIAs! Files are handled as ByteArrays so we can do quite everything
8. Many others…

Another impressive innovation is Astro is available for Ubuntu Linux users too…so even penguins can try new features shown in the demo on labs site.

Finally the coolest news: WE ALREADY CAN COMPILE CONTENT TARGETING ASTRO!

I’m so excited i don’t need mana to stay awake tonight!:D

Hi there!
It’s sunday…wonderful day to publish some 360 pic on flickr. Go take a look at those photos, here two links of my album and my friend luca’s too.

Got pics? Send me the link so we can build up one big album!

Anche in Italia! Finalmente si stanno muovendo le acque anche dalle nostre parti

L’OnAir tour¬† arriver√† a Milano il 13 giugno nell’ultima delle 12 date del tour europeo.

Gi√† presenti e confermate la schedule e la location dell’evento:

qui il link per Milano http://onair.adobe.com/schedule/cities/milan.php 

…ci vediamo li?

Ghiotta √® l’occasione e dentro mi ci butto

Sarò uno degli speaker al Flex Magic, manifestazione organizzata da Actionscript.it a Bologna, il 26 Febbraio prossimo.

A questo meeting toccheremo diversi argomenti tra le novit√† di flex 3, l’integrazione con .Net, lo scambio dati con ColdFusion e AMF, e Papervision 3D.

Ghiotta l’occasione anche per i partecipanti al meeting, infatti saranno estratte tra il pubblico una licenza dell’Adobe Creative Suite CS3 e una licenza di Flex Builder 3.

Questo il form di registrazione e maggiori dettagli sull’evento e sui programmi:

http://www.actionscript.it/showEvent.cfm?id=92

Ci vediamo a bologna!