Andrew Shorten’s Adobe UK Blog

We had a great day at the Adobe UK developer event held in London earlier this month - it was good to see so many new developers interested in Adobe's platform and wanting to know more about Flex and LiveCycle. We've now posted all the presentations and resources from the day online for download. If you couldn't make it on the day then they should give you an idea of the content covered and hopefully we'll see you at a future event...

On that note, in recognition that there are other places in the UK other than London (!), we're hoping to organise some developer evenings in Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh over the next couple of months. These events will provide an opportunity to learn more about Flex and LiveCycle, for you to give us your feedback and to mix with other like-minded developers. We're still in the planning stages at the moment, but when I've got some confirmed dates/venues I'll post them here.

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The August meeting of the London Flash Platform User Group (LFPUG) is tonight, Thursday 24th August - I'll be there as part of the line up to present on Adobe's next generation technology for building Killer Desktop RIAs (codenamed "Apollo").

If you haven't had a chance to see Apollo in action then this will be a good opportunity to learn about the types of applications that Apollo will make possible when it's released next year and take a look at a couple of the early example Apollo apps that we have built.

In addition to my session, there will also be a talk from Glue London about some of their recent Flash video projects and the processes they go through to deliver them.

If that's not enough, Adobe has also donated a full version of Flex Builder + Charting which will be given away to one lucky attendee. If you'd like to join us tonight, head over to the LFPUG website and register... http://www.lfpug.com/24th-august-2006-24082006/

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If you're interested in learning more about Flex, LiveCycle and the Adobe Engagement platform or you have colleagues who would like to get up to speed on Adobe's technology then check out the UK developer event we're holding on September 6th in London.

I'll be presenting on developing Rich Internet Applications with Flex 2 and also providing a preview of Apollo, our next generation technology for building desktop-based RIAs. We have a full day of sessions planned, with topics including PDF for developers, using Flex and Ajax together, Rapid application development and developing mobile content with Flash. The event details and agenda are online at http://www.adobe.com/uk/developerevent/.

The event is FREE and will be held at Tiger Tiger, which is a great venue - http://www.tigertiger-london.co.uk/venue/.

We're covering a lot of content in a day, so it will provide a good overview for those looking to understand how Adobe's client runtimes, programming languages, tools and servers can be used alongside existing technologies to create rich online experiences.

If you're already a Flex expert and want to help spread the word then please forward info about this event to those who haven't had a chance to see it in action yet!

You can register for the event at www.adobe.com/uk/developerevent/.

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