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Rich Tretola currently holds the position of Applications Development Manager 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 has been asked to be a speaker at the Adobe MAX conference for three consecutive years.
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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May 21 2010
There is a special offer going on today. You can O'Reilly Ebooks for only $9.99 including the new Flex 4 Cookbook that I was a part of. :-) Here are the details. Free to Choose: Ebook Deal of the Day... read moreMay 20 2010
Adobe announced AIR for Android Public Beta this morning at Google I/O. To join this beta program, please visit https://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/android/ read moreInsideRIA's NXNEi Conference Pass Giveaway
May 19 2010
InsideRIA has two passes to give away to the upcoming NXNEi conference in Toronto, June 15 and 16, 2010! We'll be selecting two of our community members who will each win one free pass. Increase your chance of winning!... read moreAdobe Adds HTML5 Support for Dreamweaver CS5
May 19 2010
Some news coming out of Google I/O concerning Adobe's adoption and support for HTML5. Adobe has announced the immediate availability of an HTML5 pack extension for Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. Availability of this HTML5 Pack extension is the direct result... read moreQOW: Are you using the Text Layout Framework?
May 18 2010
The Text Layout Framework is an extensible library, built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated and innovative typography on the web. It is built... read moreAdobe PDF Navigator developer contest
May 13 2010
Adobe PDF Navigator developer contest could get your Flex/Flash resume in front of leading RIA & brand agencies Win a MacBook Air, Dell Adamo, iPad, Nexus One or Netbook Adobe's Acrobat User Community has launched the Acrobat PDF Portfolio Navigator... read moreQOW: Has the open sourcing of Flex effected your adoption?
April 07 2010
Recently, I asked the question Flex 4 when will you switch?. The results of that poll are in and apparently many of you have already been using Flex 4 as even though Flex 4 was just made official. 34% of... read moreInsideRIA FITC Conference Pass Giveaway Winners
March 24 2010
Congratulations to Eric Fickes from Denver, Colorado and Brian Piper from Lima, New York. They are the lucky winners of the InsideRIA FITC Conference Pass Giveaway. Eric Fickes Eric Fickes is a Multi tier internet programmer, all around internet enthusiast.... read moreNew Poll: Flex 4 when will you switch?
March 23 2010
Although since Flex is open source, the Flex 4 SDK has been available for quite some time now, yesterday it became official. So my question to you is simple: when will you begin to use the new SDK in your... read moreAnnouncing Flash Builder 4, ColdFusion Builder, Flex 4, Flash Social Services
March 22 2010
Adobe has officially released the following: Flash Builder 4 (formerly Adobe Flex? Builder™) is a professional‐grade Eclipse‐based development tool for rapidly building multi‐platform rich Internet applications (RIAs) and content using the open source Flex framework. Developers can build more intuitive... read moreInsideRIA FITC Conference Pass Giveaway
March 17 2010
InsideRIA has two passes to give away to the upcoming FITC conference in Toronto, Canada, April 25-27, 2010! We'll be selecting two of our community members who will each win one free pass. Increase your chance of winning! If you... read moreQOW: If you had $1000 what tech would you buy?
March 02 2010
If someone gave you $1000 but said that you needed to immediately spend it to buy a new piece of technology, what would you buy? Would it be a new laptop, mobile devise, flat panel TV, software package? My choice... read moreQOW: What is your definition of RIA?
February 15 2010
Just over 2 years ago when we starting this project known as InsideRIA, I posed the question "What is RIA?" to a select group of InsideRIA contributors. Please revisit the original post at What is RIA? to see the responses.... read moreFlash Player Mobile and Adobe AIR Mobile
February 15 2010
In case you missed the announcement early this morning, Adobe has outlined their time line for getting Flash Player mobile and Adobe AIR mobile rolled out. Here are a few excerpts; "Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE - News) today announced advancements... read moreFebruary 08 2010
Now that we have already had the Flash on the iPad discussion, let's take a different look in discussing the iPad. (Please don't start the Flash iPad flame war again) Will you buy one and if so why? Would... read moreQOW: What is thw worst code you have ever seen?
January 25 2010
Recently, I was discussing some developer horror stories with some co-workers. Kevin Schmidt was telling me about a suport/enhancement contract from a major company that he had to walk away from because he just couldn't deal with the code he... read moreQOW: What new language would you like to learn this year?
January 11 2010
The sign of any true developer is how up to date they are with the ever changing technologies and programming languages. Many developers have told me that they are planning to learn something new this year. Whether it be Java,... read moreQOW: What was the most influential tech for you in the past decade?
December 31 2009
There were many cool advances in technology over the past 10 years. iPod, Facebook, Google, Tivo/DVR, Blackberry, iPhone, etc. This all have undoubtedly effected me one way or another as I am sure they have effected you. However, for me... read moreQOW: What are you most excited about for 2010?
December 19 2009
The world of technology is constantly in flux and 2010 seems like it will be a very existing year. With the many scheduled releases of exciting new Android phones the re-emergence of the handset wars in the world of mobile... read morePoll Revisit: What mobile platform are you most interested in programming for?
December 08 2009
Back in October of 2008, I posted a poll that focused on the many mobile platforms and asked which platform you were most interested in developing for. Since that time Android and Palm WebOS have matured a bit and Apple... read moreNew Poll: How do you handle your Flash objects?
December 01 2009
This week's poll was brought to us by Amy Blankenship. The Flex Framework supplies a component life-cycle that allows (or forces, depending on your perspective) Flex developers to defer the work necessary to respond to changing styles and properties until... read moreQOW: Call for Topics, What do you want from InsideRIA?
November 23 2009
InsideRIA is all about community. Our authors are all active community members and leaders in then industry. Our readers are faithful and demand excellence from our authors. Every so often, I like to put out a request to the InsideRIA... read moreFlex Indiapolis UG Meeting tonight
November 18 2009
The Flex UG in Indianapolis has been "offline" for a while but is back tonight 11/18/09 for its first meeting under new UG manager Mick Keily. Joe Johnston and Peter Buick from Universal Mind making an appearance in Indianapolis. "We'll... read moreQOW: Top open source Flex projects
November 16 2009
Question of the week: Open source projects are extremely important to the growth of a development community. The Flex community has always had a large number of open source projects and libraries that have been contributions from both community... read moreNovember 10 2009
Question of the week: Time to dream a little. If you had an unlimited budget and unlimited resources what application would you build and why would you build it? Please leave comments.... read moreWhat feature do you use most on your mobile phone?
November 02 2009
With all of this talk lately about the Flash Player coming to mobile, I thought I would ask a very simple question. What feature do you use most on your mobile phone? Please take part in this poll by clicking... read moreWhich software title do you use most ofter for prototyping?
October 26 2009
Any quality development team will put an application prototype before their clients before every starting on production code. There are many many software packages to help make this a quick and easy process. We would like to know which in... read moreOctober 19 2009
Windows 7 will ship this week and from all accounts, it is the best operating system shipped from Microsoft since Windows 2000. Note, this is not my opinion based on the Microsoft's marketing campaign, but my personal experience evaluating the... read moreOctober 16 2009
RIA Unleashed - Boston is a 1 day 3 track event covering Flex, AIR, ColdFusion and related technologies and disciplines. Our three tracks are designed to allow you to focus on the technologies you are interested in. You'll be able... read moreMAX 2009 Session Videos: Flex Frameworks, AR, & Best RIAs
October 16 2009
InsideRIA had three sessions at Adobe MAX this year: The Battle of the Flex Frameworks Returns, with Greg Owen; Augmented Reality within the Flash Player, with Jesse Freeman; and InsideRIA's Secrets of the Best Rich Internet Apps of 2009 (So... read moreOctober 14 2009
Here are a few events that are in the near future you may wish to attend: BFusion / BFlex - Two days of hands-on training from the experts in Adobe Flex and ColdFusion. ColdFusion — October 24, 2009 Flex —... read moreHas your strategy changed on mobile (now that Flash Player mobile has been announced)?
October 12 2009
Adobe has announced that the browser based Flash player 10.1 will soon be running on every major mobile platform (Windows Mobile, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, WebOS) except Apple's iPhone. (See my opinion on Apple here). They also announced that although Apple... read moreOctober 06 2009
Flash on Iphone: Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.* https://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kusXgPAmMLw Flash10 on... read moreOctober 01 2009
If you will be at Adobe MAX next week, please stop by the O'Reilly Booth between 6:30pm - 8pm to meet your favorite O'Reilly InsideRIA authors. Here is the list of the authors who will be on hand at this... read moreOctober 01 2009
Although we are all bummed around here that Steve Weiss is leaving the InsideRIA team, we know what an important role he plays within O'Reilly as a whole and that he is the right man to make O'Reilly's new partnership with Microsoft a success. I just wanted to offer my… read moreNew Poll: How soon would you buy a new phone if you could get the Flash Player on it?
September 28 2009
It has been known for quite some time that as part of the open screen project Adobe has been working with chip manufacture ARM on getting the Flash Player onto many devises including mobile and set top boxes. read morePoll Results: What's your main operating system?
September 27 2009
Well as I suspected, there is a much larger percentage of our readers using non Windows operating systems. The results show that over 20% use some flavor of Linux, over 47% are using OS X, and the remaining 30% or... read moreSeptember 25 2009
Adobe has announced that the brand new Adobe Cookbooks application is now live! This new Adobe Cookbook application replaces the existing individual cookbook applications that existed for Flex, AIR and Mobile. The new application still supports those technologies, and adds an additional dozen or so technologies, within a new single… read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
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