Fwd: Invite for Flash Ahead

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From: Raghu (Adobe) <rr...@adobe.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Subject: Invite for Flash Ahead
To: Adobe India RIA Trainers Alliance <adobe-india-ria-...@googlegroups.com>



Hi,

Announcing Flash Ahead… The event that will showcase the future of the
Flash platform to the Indian audience for the first time.

Date: 17th January, 2009
Venue: Lalit Ashok (erstwhile Grand Ashok), Bangalore
Time: 09:00 to 18:00
Event URL: http://adoberiathon.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/flash-ahead/

There are limited seats available, so please confirm at the earliest.
If you are interested in attending, RSVP at -http://endtoend.in/apps/
forms/adobe/flash/adobe.htm

At Flash Ahead we are going to announce the selected finalists of
riathon'08 and they will battle it out in an on-stage showdown of
application, in front of the crowd and judges. Later in the day, the
results will be announced and prizes will be distributed. You will
also get to see the latest technologies on the Adobe Flash Platform.
Here's a sneak peek in what you will see and hear on that day:

• Gumbo - "Gumbo" is the codename for the next generation of Adobe®
Flex®, including both the next generation of Flex Builder™ and the
next generation of the open source Flex SDK. Gumbo delivers a long
list of new features and improvements to existing features in three
main themes: design and development, IDE productivity, and data-
centric application development. Get to see Gumbo at work and talk to
the engineers who built them…
• BlazeDS .NET - The .NET version of the Adobe BlazeDS open-source
product
• Flex™ plug-in for Microsoft® Visual Studio®
• Flash Catalyst (earlier codenamed Thermo) - Adobe® Flash® Catalyst
is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating
application interfaces and interactive content out of a designer's
wire frames.
As you create your project in design view, Flash Catalyst is
representing the design as well-formed MXML code behind the scenes.
Share your project with "Gumbo", the next generation of Adobe Flex®
Builder™, to add logic and back-end connectivity. Move the project
between Flash Catalyst and Gumbo while preserving design and code
integrity.
Learn more about Flash Catalyst here.
• Astro - Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named "Astro," introduces new
expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow
interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most
immersive Web experiences.  These include features like:
   o Advanced Text Layout - A new, highly flexible text layout
engine, that enables innovation in creating new text controls by
providing low-level access to text offering right-to-left and vertical
text layout, plus support for typographic elements like ligatures.
   o Custom Filters and Effects - Creating portable filters, blend
modes, and fills using Adobe Pixel Bender™, the same technology used
for many After Effects CS3 filters.
• Alchemy - Alchemy is a research project that allows users to compile
C and C++ code that is targeted to run on the open source ActionScript
Virtual Machine (AVM2). You can know more about Alchemy here
• ActionScript Cloud APIs - You can see a list here.

There are limited seats available, so please confirm at the earliest.
Feel free to forward this to any of your team and any acquaintances
who might be interested. If you have already received an invite and
replied, please ignore this mail.

Regards,
Raghu

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