UK LiveCycle & Flash Platform Blog

Hi,

A key piece of successful rich internet application (RIA) design is ensuring that the application meets the needs of the end user. User experience design therefore plays a key role in any RIA implementation.

George Neill is a member of Adobe's Technology and Experience Innovation group. With over 20 years experience as a designer he has an extensive understanding of users' needs and behaviours, and a deep insight into how that understanding can be applied pragmatically to create innovative experiences that achieve clients' business objectives.

This months talk at the Enterprise RIA User Group is on the 18th November and will be given by George. You can register for the free talk here.

Hope to see you there...

Ben Forsaith

The UK Technical Team at Adobe has started an Enterprise Blog. Several members of the team will be contributing so expect lots of information to be posted.

I'll be contributing to that blog but will also maintain a presence here. Check it out...

Ben

Hi All,

Every third Wednesday of the month Skillsmatter host the Enterprise RIA User Group (sponsored by Adobe) at their offices in Farringdon. Everyone is welcome and if you have an Interest in Enterprise scale applications then this is for you.

Tomorrows talk (21st October 2009) is being given by Børre Wessel and is entitled "Scaling Flex for enterprise applications".

Børre Wessel is a Managing Consultant at Lab49. For the past ten years Børre has focused on advanced user interface development and the successful delivery of numerous enterprise systems.

This session will cover how to scale Flex for enterprise applications. Lab49 are engaged on a number of large Flex applications, and this session will cover some of the lessons learned on how to develop large, scalable and high performing applications built on top of the Flash Platform. Presentation will cover topics like Modularisation, Inversion of Control and Developer-Designer workflow.

I'll be there as always and can't wait to hear what Børre has to say.

See you there.
Ben

Hi,

I wanted to highlight this great example of how the Flash Platform is being used in the Financial industry.

Morgan Stanley have launched a game changing application that aims to provide their customers with the industry leading online trading environment. But don't just take my word for it...the following micro-site provides valuable insight into what has been delivered (and has some demos too).

Check out the Matrix

You can also get some insight on the application over at Andrew Shorten's Blog.

Ben

Hi,

Some great releases today that I'd encourage everyone interested in application development to try out...The new beta releases for Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst and the Flex 4 SDK are live on Adobe Labs.

There are a load of resources to get started with, these are the highlights:

Beta Videos
What’s new in Flash Builder
What’s new in the SDK

There are some great sample apps to get you started as well.

Have fun - and let us know what you think.