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Akto presentation: Flex and Air in Greek.

On May 22 I gave my first presentation about Flex and Air in Akto (Private College of Applied and Fine Arts). I have to admin that I was very anxious and nervous, obviously because of the fact that it was my 1st talk and in about 20 minutes I had to explain as much as I could about those 2 babies. It was really really hard as I had to skip some sections like showing some demo Flex apps and I had to talk about some features very quickly but it’s ok since that was just a “first touch”.

I’m really looking forward to another event with more time available and of course with MY demo apps..

Besides the speech I was also lucky enough to meet Andrew Lindstrom (Adobe MEA Rigional Manager) and Alastair de Wed (Adobe Compliancy Manager for MEA and Mediterranean), 2 really nice guys! Alastair told me that my keynote “was all Greek to him”, which is fun since Arul Prasad had told me that before when he saw the Greek Developer F.A.Q. of Air (Alpha). Well I can understand that..

After the event we had lunch and it was nice to meet in person with the Managing Director of Anodos, the official distributor of Adobe in Greece, Mr Kostas Dimakopoulos and George Kaiafas, the marketing manager of Anodos. I can’t wait to talk to them again and see how Greece is going on the Flash/Flex/Air side of things.

I would like to thank Charis Tsevis, the Adobe South Africa Channel Manager for the Mediterranean (oh..that was long..) for giving me the opportunity to talk about what I love so much and definitely his wife Eva for her support during my speech because I was ready to fall down! Thanks Eva!
They are a really great couple and I feel lucky to meet them.

I would also like to thank Akto for being so generous and offer the equipment and I would like to say congratulations for the award “Adobe Compliance Certificate” they got, an award given for the 1st time to an educational institution in Greece.

At the end I’m going to remove from my “display list of life” my stress and just keep the good moments of the day.

So here is the keynote (it’s in Greek), just in case you would like to see it again.
Bear in mind that it’s not very descriptive as it contains just some bullets so..

Flash Player bug base open to the public!

Aren’t you just love Adobe?

Lets face it, Adobe it’s a Corporation. “They” (I’m using the quotes is a good way) created the Flash Platform and they could just keep it closed.. But no they didn’t. I’m not going to write about all the open source moves that Adobe has done, you can learn more here and here and you should definitely have a look at Aral Balkan’s post here in which he talks about the Flash Platform (one of the best posts I have ever read, bravo Aral! ).

I’m talking about a feature which will be really useful for a better Flash Player. Yea I know Flash Player baby is just a piece of paradise already but every single day new needs arrive. Adobe open the bug base for the Flash Player to the public, so now every Flash Platform developer can file bugs and future requests related to the Flash Player and Adobe will see, listen and read it. All you need is just a free account on the bag base page.

That is something that Adobe should have done a lot of years ago but as they say it’s never to late. All I have to say is Bravo to Adobe for such a move. This will definitely help Flash Player to be more strong and powerful than ever.

Go Flash Player, Go Adobe!

Flash Player new version is out (9.0.124)!

A new version of our little piece of paradise also known as Flash Player has being released today. Its version is 9.0.124. There are some new changes on the security model, actually the whole update is considered a security update and there is a article on the Developer Center with a lot of information.

Along with the new Flash Player, Adobe made a face lift on the Flash Player Download Center which is now more easy to use for a lot of people. Justin Everett-Church, the Sr. Product Manager for the Flash Player, has posted about the new version on his very informative blog.

Go Flash Player, Go Adobe!