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Review of Flex vs Silverlight Debate at Cal Poly Pomona

Luis Majano — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I completely forgot to post about this and post a link to the event we hosted at Cal Poly Pomona last month between Adobe and Microsoft. The debate was excellent and we had great attendance for the IECFUG. We where able to get more students and interest in our ColdFusion User Group and hopefully get to recruit some more after an awe inspiring presentation by Kevin Hoyt.

Unfortunately, I won’t say anything bad about Microsoft because I won a copy of Vista Ultimate! (hmm, what did I do with it?)

If you want to see the video for yourself and see how the debate was laid out see who won, check this link out:

http://video.csupomona.edu/streaming/Events/FutureOfComputing.html

Adobe vs Microsoft Live DEBATE at the IECFUG, YOU CAN’T MISS THIS!

Luis Majano — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Come join us for The battle for control of the future of computing debate at

7 PM (PST/GMT +8) on Thursday, February 12 in the Bronco Student
Center (Ursa Minor) at California State Polytechnic University in
Pomona. Microsoft Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. will present their
contenders for whose technologies will dominate. Adobe (maker of
Photoshop, Flash and Dreamweaver) is encouraging developers to create
media-rich desktop computer applications that operate independently of
the Internet through its Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). Microsoft
wants developers to create media-rich applications that can be used
online through its Silverlight technology.

Sam Stokes, academic developer/evangelist at Microsoft Corporation and
Kevin Hoyt, platform evangelist at Adobe will represent the two sides.
The free event is sponsored by the Interactive Web Development Student
Association, the Computer Information Systems department in the
College of Business Administration and the Inland Empire ColdFusion
User Group and will be streamed live over the Internet. Pizza,
refreshments and a free drawing for multimedia software will be
provided.

If you can’t make it in person, you can watch it live or afterwards at
http://video.csupomona.edu/streaming/Events/FutureOfComputing.html

RSVPs to rdwestfall@csupopmona.edu are encouraged

Parking will be $5.00 at Cal Poly Pomona Parking Structure.

Want Pownce invites? I got 4

Luis Majano — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

If you want a pownce invite, please leave a comment with your email address. I currently only have 4 left, so first come first serve.

UPDATE: No more invites left. ALL GONE!!!

Adobe onAIR Tour Bus – Keynote Notes

Luis Majano — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I have just finished the keynote of the Adobe onAir bus tour. WOW!! AIR looks amazing, it just opens the possibilities to a whole new level. You can find the notes by clicking here.

Intro to Adobe AIR + Ebay “San Dimas”

Luis Majano — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

In this presentation they covered more of the capabilities of AIR, how to use it and much more stuff. Mike, covered how to create an AIR package from a simple Flex Application with Flex Builder 3. Flex Builder 3 looks awesome and the ease of creating the applications is just outstanding. You can also download it from the Adobe Labs. The gears and turning… So beware…

Here is the link to the google doc notes.

The guys from Ebay also demoed their application San Dimas where you have a full integration to your desktop from ebay. WOW!! It was an excellent demo and the app just looks great. As soon as I get a link I will update this.