360Flex Europe - Day 1

So we have attended the Day 1 of 360Flex Europe Conference here in Milan.

This day was completely free thanks to the sponsors that the organizers were able to get in touch with.
It was really nice to meet some folks from the Adobe Team (especially Enrique Duvós and Sumi Lim) and also new people from the European Flex community.

We have seen some interesting presentations:

• Adobe AIR: Cross-Scripting Techniques by Xavi Beumala
  Xavi was talking about using some interesting techniques to use HTML component in AIR that enables to expose DOM API of underlying WebKit HTML engine and use it for manipulation of HTML rendering in AIR applications.
• Better Flex and AIR Applications Using AJAX by Marco Casario
  Marco was talking about bridging the Flex vs AJAX and use them together to take the benefit of both of them. The main idea was that the both of them are just complementary technologies and not the competitors.
• Flex Bitmap Effects! by Luca Mezzalira
  Luca has shown some interesting bitmap data manipulations and effects in Flex applications with realtime webcam images using the BitmapData API of the Flash Player. He also presented the usage of some bitmap filters and approaches for motion detection.
• Video Streaming with Flex and Flash Media Server by Eros Marcon
  Eros talked about video streaming in Flex using Flash Media Server. He walked through some examples of creating simple video player and shown techniques on using the incoming stream data to enhance the usability and user experience.

After the presentations we took part at the Birds of a Feather session sponsored by one of the partners where we enjoyed a couple of talks with people from the Flex community together with some refreshments and glasses of wine

It was really a pleasant day today and we really enjoyed it. You can check out some photos from today’s Day 1 of the conference in our Events page.

Just stay tuned for more news from 360Flex Europe Conference in Milan.