FITC Unconference @ MAX 2011

 

Please join FITC on October 1-5 in Los Angeles for Adobe MAX 2011 which will bring together thousands of forward-thinking designers, developers, and business decision makers that are shaping the future of our industry. As part of the agenda at this year's MAX, Adobe has added the MAX Unconference area. The Unconference is a way for attendees to convene in a casual setting to share ideas as well as host their own discussion groups. This year FITC has once again been chosen as one of the organizations to run one of the Unconference areas.

 

September 12, 2011
Rich Internet Application Screen Design

Designing a rich Internet application (RIA) can test even an experienced design team. The hardest challenge is to blend Web and desktop paradigms to create a responsive and intuitive experience. Some paradigms that exist in the desktop environment are ill-suited for the Web, while many of the Web paradigms people are familiar with (paging, explicit refresh) are no longer necessary with RIA technologies like Flex and Ajax. As this space matures, we are learning more and more about which boundaries can be pushed, and which patterns transcend time and technology. While working on the book Designing Web Interfaces, Bill Scott and I explored hundreds of Web applications searching for these patterns. Armed with a crazy amount of examples, we distilled the patterns into six principles:

February 11, 2010
Theresa Neil
Failing Fast: Getting Projects Out of the Lab

“Failing fast” means getting putting applications out in the wild as soon as possible to learn whether they will succeed. This gives you access to early user feedback to quickly weed out ideas and methods that don’t work. Failing fast is a good thing—or, at least, it's preferable to failing slowly and spending too much time, effort and money developing a product that should have been put to rest earlier. Money and time you save by cutting off unsuccessful projects quickly will mean you have more money and time for the successful ones. The concept of failing fast can help businesspeople and stakeholders reduce the riskiness of launching products by letting real users and the marketplace dictate their product choices.

November 22, 2009
Tony Hillerson, Alan Lewis, Scott Green, Ryan Stewart, Randy Rieland
Microsoft could well deliver with Silverlight
Microsoft’s new “Flash/Flex killer” Silverlight seems to have made quite an impression on some. Many of us are still taking the idea of Microsoft shoving Adobe of its RIA throne with a pinch of salt but the folks at TechCrunch seem to believe that Silverlight is, in fact, “the future”. You can read their reasons why right here. The demos are impressive, the client is quite light (4Mb in Windows) and Microsoft has the development clout to get this widely adopted — it’ll be interesting to see what happens.
May 01, 2007
Alex Schleifer
Adobe Apollo Alpha
Adobe’s just released Apollo into the wild (albeit in Alpha form). In a nutshell, Apollo let’s you build cross-OS desktop applications using a cocktail of Ajax, Flash, JavaScript & HTML. Be sure to check out the sample applications. (Via Ajaxian)
March 18, 2007
Alex Schleifer
360|Flex

Join us in Denver CO April 15-18, 2012! Tickets are on sale now!

360|Flex has quickly become THE conference for Flex/AIR/ActionScript developers to attend to connect with the community, learn from the Adobe Engineers, as well as community experts, and get the deepest, most technical understanding of Flex and what’s coming for Flex, anywhere.

360|Flex was the first and is still the best all Flex/AIR themed conference. Our inaugural conference in San Jose was a sell-out success. 360|Flex takes you into the nitty-gritty of Flex development, with well known community leaders, giving some of the most advanced Flex talks anywhere. Anyone serious about being the best Flex developer they can be, owes it to themselves to look at 360|Flex as they best option for raising their game to a new level!

December 31, 1969
dotNet Protector Classic

 

dotNet Protector is a powerful .NET code protection system that prevents your assemblies from being decompiled. With dotNet Protector, your application is not simply obfuscated, but method bodies are encrypted. EXE DLL, ASPNET and SQL assemblies can be protected. You can protect a whole application (main exe, referenced dlls) in a single executable. Your .NET code will run entirely from memory, without temporary disk storage.

Protection can be done interactively with an intuitive graphical interface, or automated, using the command-line functionalities of dotNet Protector.

dotNet Protector includes a powerful hardware sensitive anti-piracy system and extensions to help you develop your own software activation system. dotNet Protector is self-protected and uses its internal software activation system.

December 31, 1969