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Alex Goh previously worked in Accenture as a SAP Technology Consultant, and Nexmedia Pte Ltd as a Flex developer. He picked up Flex about a year ago, and have developed several applications including a virtual message board. The application is currently being used in schools and conferences whereby the virtual board is projected onto big screens, and students or audiences are encouraged to post their questions or feedbacks by sending SMS to the board.

Vishnu Prasad is an Coldfusion developer with 8 years of experience in IT industry with speciliation in coldfusion. He has written few turorials on Coldfusion @(www.learncf.com). e specializes in emerging technologies and he is currently fascinated with rich internet applications, service oriented architecture, and identifying new trends.

Vishnu mission is to promote coldfusion and Coldfusion related technology by giving free training to collegs abd university for that he as started the community www.cfexpose.com. Looking for a volunters for the same.

Alvin Zhang is passionate about RIA, the web, making stuff move and user interfaces. His other interests are photography and film and he has an attraction to everything Japanese though he can’t speak the language. Alvin is currently working with Imagine Omnimedia on several projects and teaches Flash at 3dsense Media School Singapore. Alvin is also an Adobe Certified Expert on Photoshop, Acrobat and Flash.

Flex is a free, open source framework for building highly interactive, expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. It provides a modern, standards-based language and programming model that supports common design patterns. MXML, a declarative XML-based language, is used to describe UI layout and behaviors, and ActionScript™ 3, a powerful object-oriented programming language, is used to create client logic. Flex also includes a rich component library with more than 100 proven, extensible UI components for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs), as well as an interactive Flex application debugger.

RIAs created with Flex can run in the browser using Adobe Flash® Player software or on the desktop on Adobe AIR™, the cross-operating system runtime. This enables Flex applications to run consistently across all major browsers and on the desktop. And using AIR, Flex applications can now access local data and system resources on the desktop. Both Flash Player and Adobe AIR are available as a free download on Adobe.com.

Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software solves the day-to-day challenges of Internet application development, allowing you to be extremely productive as you create and deliver engaging online applications. And because it fits into any IT environment, you can use ColdFusion 8 for everything from small departmental applications to highly scalable, reliable implementations of your most important business applications.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.

Gaia is an open-source front-end Flash Framework for AS3 and AS2 designed to dramatically reduce development time.

• Revolutionary scaffolding engine builds fully functional Flash sites in less than 10 minutes!
• Simple API for Navigation, Transitions, Preloading, Asset Management makes development a snap!
• Deep Linking achieved through seamless integration with SWFAddress
• SEO Scaffolding makes Search Engine Optimization as easy as pressing a button
• Easy enough for novices
• Powerful enough for experts

Gaia is targeted at anyone who develops Flash sites. It provides solutions to the challenges and repeated tasks we all face with front-end Flash site development, such as navigation, transitions, preloading, asset management, site structure, deep linking and SEO. It provides speed and flexibility in your workflow and a simple API that gives you access to its powerful features.

Gaia’s revolutionary scaffolding engine generates all your Flash files and classes for you and gets you up and running with a fully functional site in less than 10 minutes without writing a single line of Actionscript!

The evolution to more engaging RIAs has created the need for better data connectivity options. Remoting simplifies the reuse of existing server logic automatically marshalling calls between the Flash client and the Java methods on the server. In addition, the use of a AMF binary data transfer format increases performance, allowing applications to load data up to 10 times faster than with text-based formats such as XML or SOAP.

Previously available only as part of Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES, Adobe is contributing the proven BlazeDS technologies to the community under the LGPL v3. BlazeDS gives the rapidly growing Adobe developer community free access to the powerful remoting and messaging technologies developed by Adobe.