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Biography
Rich Tretola currently holds the position of Rich Applications Technical Lead at Herff Jones Inc. He is an award-winning Flex developer and was the lead author of Professional Flex 2 (2007 ISBN: 0470102675) and sole author of Beginning AIR (2008 ISBN: 0470229047). He is also a contributing author on Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook (2008 ISBN: 0596522509)
Rich has been building Internet applications for over 10 years and has worked with Flex since the original Royale beta version of Flex in 2003. Other than Flex, Rich builds applications using ColdFusion, Flash, and Java. Rich is highly regarded within the Flex community as an expert in RIA and is also an Adobe Community Expert. He runs a popular Flex and AIR blog at EverythingFlex.com, is the community manager of InsideRIA.com and was also a speaker at the Adobe MAX 2007 conference in Chicago. He will be speaking at MAX 2008 in San Francisco.
For a non technical escape, Rich is also a co-owner of a chocolate bar manufacturing company located on Maui named WowWee Maui.
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New Poll: What were you doing before you started working in RIA?
December 15 2008
RIA has been around for roughly 5, maybe some would say 7 years so many of us were at one point working in other areas of technology. For instance, before I started working with RIA as my man focus, I... read moreDid you miss MAX? No worries, check out Adobe TV
December 12 2008
Good news, Adobe has started to post the videos of the MAX presentations from San Francisco last month. They have about a dozen posted so far with a promise of many more to come. Check them out on Adobe TV. read moreDecember 08 2008
InsideRIA has been around for almost a year now and although we certainly keep analytics, it would still be nice to hear from you directly. So, our new poll simply asks, "How do you find us?" Please click here to... read morePoll Results: Which Adobe MAX announcement do you feel will effect you the most?
December 08 2008
With a combination of almost 60% percent of the vote, it looks like the combination of Flex Builder 4 "Gumbo" and Flash Catalyst "Thermo" is the MAX announcement that will effect you the most. Next in the voting with almost... read moreWant to learn how to SOA clients with Flex and Adobe AIR?
December 08 2008
Duane Nickull has posted over 8 hours of free course materials that will walk you through how to use Web Services, REST, and RPC services within Flex and AIR. All of the materials are available for free. Here is the... read moreNew Poll: Which Adobe MAX announcement do you feel will effect you the most?
November 24 2008
Last week was Adobe MAX North America, and along with MAX came a stream of product announcements. So, this week I would like to know what announcement will effect you the most in your daily development or design job? These... read moreFotoBooth in the MAX Community Lounge
November 17 2008
Even though I couldn't make it to MAX this year. A special MAX edition of FotoBooth has made the trip and is installed and running in the community lounge. This version is based on the AIR 1.5 runtime and includes... read moreThe Cat "alyst" is out of the bag (What's new from Adobe)
November 16 2008
MAX has come and some have a slew of announcements from Adobe. This post includes new information on the following products: Adobe? Flash Catalyst™ previously code named Thermo Adobe Flex? Builder™ "Gumbo" Adobe? AIR™ 1.5 Adobe? Flash? Player 10 for 64-bit Linux Adobe? Flash? Player for Smartphones. read moreAnnouncing Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook
November 16 2008
Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook--New from O'Reilly Solutions and Practical Examples from Rich Internet Application Developers Sebastopol, CA--Buzz continues to build over the release of Adobe AIR 1.5. And O'Reilly's latest, "Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook ($44.99)--the first book available on Adobe... read moreNovember 14 2008
Well, unfortunately due to some family medical circumstances I will be missing MAX next week. I would like to publicly thank Danny Dura who will be giving my session titled "Introduction to Adobe AIR: Building Your First Application" and Andre... read moreNew Poll: Are you going to be attending Adobe MAX next week?
November 10 2008
We know that many of you use Adobe products, so we were wondering how many from the InsideRIA community will be making the trip to San Francisco next week to attend Adobe MAX. To vote in our poll, please click... read morePoll Results: Which Flex framework do you currently prefer?
November 10 2008
Well it appears that I was little off in my predictions. By getting over 30% of the vote PureMVC has lead the way, with Cairngorm taking second place, and Mate coming in third. I have never used PureMVC but your... read moreO'Reilly contest winners for Adobe Flex Cook-off contest
November 04 2008
Yes, we have more contest winners! Last week we announced the winners of the AIR Cook-off; it's now our pleasure to announce the winners of the Adobe Flex Cook-off contest: Nathan Daniel, Kelly Davis, and Vinay (last name). Congratulations and... read moreNew Poll: Which Flex Framework do you currently prefer?
November 03 2008
Last week, we asked about AJAX frameworks so this week, lets see how you feel about Flex frameworks. My assumption is that Cairngorm is still the preferred framework of Flex developers, but I have been surprised before. If you review... read morePoll Results: Which AJAX framework do you currently prefer?
November 03 2008
Wow, this was an active poll. After nearly 500 votes, with almost 50% of the vote Dojo is the clear winner. JQuery takes second place with over 20% of the vote and the rest share the remaining 30%. So, it... read moreBuy Direct and Save
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