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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: How will the Oracle purchase of Sun affect you as a developer?
April 21 2009
The big news is that Oracle is buying Sun, which also means that Oracle will now control many popular open source projects like the very popular MySQL database server and the GlassFish J2EE server. So, how will this affect your... read morePoll Results: Do you currently develop, or do you plan to develop, for the Twitter platform?
April 20 2009
Well, although Twitter is certainly hugely popular, it appears that developers don't care as much about the Twitter APIs as they did with Facebook. The Twitter poll had less than half as many responses as Facebook, which means that there... read moreNew Poll: Do you or will you develop for Twitter?
April 15 2009
Last week, we asked Do you or will you develop for Facebook? So, this week we would like to know about your development status with Twitter. Please let us know when and if you plan to developer for Twitter and... read morePoll Results: Do you currently develop, or do you plan to develop, for the Facebook platform?
April 14 2009
According to the poll results nearly 40% of you responded that you are not interested in developing for the Facebook platform and 17% said that they would experiment with it but didn't choose a time period. The remaining 40% split... read moreApril 10 2009
This is a short video by Andrew Trice showing multi-touch functionality within an Adobe AIR 1.5 application. Click here to watch. read moreNew Poll: Do you or will you develop for Facebook?
April 06 2009
Facebook is an absolute monster with a tremendous audience. Facebook also has public APIs allowing developers to create applications for the Facebook platform, So, we would like to know if you currently develop or if you plan on developing for... read morePoll Results: In what area do you spend the most time working per week?
April 05 2009
Well, it appears that InsideRIA has a dominating following of those who actively develop on a daily basis. The results show that nearly 80% work in conding, while about 10% design, and 8% work in project management. To see the... read moreNew series covering Facebook application development using Adobe Flash
March 31 2009
We would like to announce that next week a new series will be published on InsideRIA covering application development on the Facebook Platform based on the newly announced Adobe AS3 Library. This series will be authored by Mirza Hatipovic. Facebook... read moreAdobe and Facebook Joint Effort
March 31 2009
Adobe and Facebook? just announced a joint effort to enable Web developers to create more compelling applications using the Flash and Facebook. A new officially AS3 library officially supported by Adobe and Facebook is a free and open source programming... read morePoll Results: Would you consider "attending" or even participating in an online-only conference?
March 30 2009
Roughly 75% of the respondents to this poll, answered yes, they would consider attending or participating in an online-only conference. Personally, I haven't done this yet, but I do attend many screen sharing online sessions so I can definitely see... read moreNew Poll: In what area do you spend your most time working per week?
March 30 2009
To get a better understanding of our audience, we would like you to answer this simple question. In what area do you spend your most time working per week? To take part in this poll, please click here.... read morePoll Results: Which of these other languages do you use most?
March 23 2009
With over 300 votes counted, the results show PHP leading the way with almost 30% of the vote, followed by Java (19%), JavaScript (13%), ColdFusion (10%), C# (8%), and Ruby (7%). To me these results are not at all surprising... read moreNew Poll: Would you consider "attending" or even participating in an online-only conference?
March 23 2009
With travel budgets under constraint, some tech industry conferences are contemplating going online-only for their conferences. An example of this was Aral Balkan's <head> conference that occurred in Oct 2008. My experience with conferences has been that attending them is... read moreMarch 16 2009
Recently O'Reilly's quarterly State of the Computer Book Market analysis - Part IV, Languages - was released. If book sales are any indication, ActionScript is now among the most popular languages. So, with our new poll question we would like... read moreDrupal and Dreamweaver's Jekyll and Hyde Problem
March 16 2009
There was a discussion going on internally at O'Reilly spawned by an email from Tim O'Reilly pointing editors at a post commented on at Slashdot about a blog post made by a web designer: Dreamweaver is Dying, Long Live Drupal. (Original post is here). read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
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