http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/ Adobe Consulting Technology Practice en Copyright 2008 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:20:10 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.16 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Increasingly I've heard questions asked as to whether Adobe Consulting are still supporting FlexUnit, which made a journey from iteration::two to ultimately rest, almost hidden away, as part of the ActionScript 3 APIs on Adobe Labs. The fact of the matter is, not only is Adobe Consulting leveraging FlexUnit each and every day on our projects, but we continue to be advocates to our customers of using FlexUnit on their projects. But more importantly, I wanted to just put out a short blog post to update you with a few things around unit-testing and test-driven development with Flex. A new... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/11/unit_testing_an.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/11/unit_testing_an.html Agile Development Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:20:10 +0000 So with MAX 2007 Chicago behind me, and MAX 2007 Barcelona ahead, I'd like to put out some brief notes on our plans and intentions for Cairngorm. Let's start with clearing up some uncertainties. In our Adobe Consulting Birds of a Feather, we played a few games with the audience to warm things up, including a game where 3 consultants would make a statement each on a topic, only one of which was true, and the audience had to correctly guess which one was true. So the two lies about Cairngorm were that "we're building a lightweight version of Hibernate... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/10/so_whats_happen.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/10/so_whats_happen.html Cairngorm Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:36:24 +0000 My subject lines get worse. So I'm going to wait until after MAX Barcelona before I post any summary of the MAX conferences - and I'm taking a week off after Barcelona to recover! But suffice to say, it's incredibly fun times right now, and MAX Chicago was testament to the cutting edge we're all slicing and dicing with right now! But before I head over to Spain, I wanted to draw attention to a blog post that my colleague Simon Smith has made. Simon is one of my partners in crime at Adobe Consulting, leading our User Experience practice... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/10/adobe_consultin_3.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/10/adobe_consultin_3.html RIA Consulting Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:24:34 +0000 Client-side Data Modelling in Flex with Data Management Services. Monday, 2pm, RIA Technology Zone of Exhibit Hall Peter Martin is a Technical Architect with Adobe Consulting, based in Edinburgh (Scotland). Tom Sugden is a Senior Consultant with Adobe Consulting, also based in Edinburgh. Peter and Tom will whiteboard various Adobe Consulting strategies for creating client-side models in Rich Internet Applications for use with LiveCycle Data Management Services. Hear Peter and Tom discuss some of the implementations and architectures they have considered, from implementations of the presentation model pattern [Fowler] to domain object models – all lessons learned and applied during... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_chalk_and_4.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_chalk_and_4.html MAX 2007 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:47:15 +0000 eForms Architecture with a PDF Solution Tuesday, 2pm, RIA Technology Zone of Exhibit Hall Venkata Adidam is a Senior Consultant with Adobe Consulting based out of our Washington Office. Herve Dupriez is a Technical Architect with Adobe Consulting based out of our London Office. Both Venkata and Herve have deep implementation experience around our LiveCycle Product Set. In this chalk and talk session, Venkata and Herve will discuss some of the architectural options available when creating eForms solutions that leverage PDF; our teams continue to apply established design principles such as MVC whether they are developing Flex or AIR based... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_chalk_and_3.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_chalk_and_3.html MAX 2007 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:44:04 +0000 Combining Flex and LiveCycle ES Monday, 4pm, RIA Technology Zone of Exhibit Hall Danny Saikaly is a Principal Architect with Adobe Consulting, based out of our office in Ottawa. Danny is going to stand at the whiteboard, and talk about strategies and solutions employed by Adobe Consulting that will enable you to take an RIA built in Flex or AIR and then leverage and invoke services in the LiveCycle ES platform. Furthermore, he’ll talk about the different strategies for seamlessly rendering a PDF within a Flex application, and communicating between the PDF and Flex application. There are some incredibly compelling... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_chalk_and_2.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_chalk_and_2.html MAX 2007 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:40:11 +0000 Paging Large Data Sets Monday, 3pm, RIA Technology Zone of Exhibit Hall Brian O'Connor is a Senior Technical Architect based out of our Newton, Ma. office. Brian is another architect who has been spending a tonne of time building RIA in Flex and AIR with LiveCycle Data Services. Brian will whiteboard some strategies for high-performance paging of large data sets on LiveCycle Data Services. This will all be lessons learned from some mission critical financial service applications delivered by Adobe Consulting with Flex and LiveCycle Data Services.... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_chalk_and_1.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_chalk_and_1.html MAX 2007 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:34:37 +0000 There's a new session format at MAX this year - "chalk and talk" sessions. The idea is "between 10 and 20 minutes, no demos, no slides". It's just one or two people leading a discussion of a topic at a whiteboard, and you are free to just wander up, listen or participate. This is one of the things I love about working with talented teams of designers and developers; when you walk into a project office, see someone at a whiteboard with a pen in their hand and a bunch of people standing with hands on their heads, or arms... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_chalk_and.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_chalk_and.html MAX 2007 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:36:09 +0000 Monday Evening, Room #180, 9.30pm It's gameshow time folks! In the Adobe Consulting Birds of a Feather session, we're going to facilitate a session in gameshow format - that's Adobe Consulting versus the rest of the world - with a session called "Adobe Consulting knows everything about Flex, LiveCycle ES and User Experience Design". 4000 attendees. Whatever! Bring it on! We plan on a fun, interactive but ultimately spirited and educational discussion that covers all of the above topics - we'll mix some panel-based discussion that will include the audience and their thoughts, with gameshow rounds, where we'll pit 20... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_adobe_con_1.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_adobe_con_1.html Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:49:53 +0000 Flex Best Practices Tuesday, October 21:30 pm - 2:30 pm So I'm really looking forward to this one; Joe Berkowitz of Allurent has agreed to chair a panel called Flex Best Practices" with myself, Anatole Tartakovsky of Farata Systems, Dave Colleta of Virtual Ubiquity (the Buzzword guys!) and Dave Wolf of Cynergy Systems. Joe has a great agenda of topics together to chair the discussion with, including General Flex Development best-practices, Architecture (Frameworks and Patterns, Model Driven Development, Flex/HTML Integration), Quality issues such as unit-testing, integration testing and continuous builds, workflow between designer and developer teams on RIA project, and... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_flex_best.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_flex_best.html MAX 2007 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:29:17 +0000 Design-Led Innovation: Creating Disruptive Experiences Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am So at Adobe Consulting, we talk to our customers about "Design Led Innovation" as a way of thinking about how to apply Design-thinking and take a Design-led approach to creating applications that are not just soundly built upon our technology, but useful, usable and desirable not just for our customers, but for their customers. Taking a departure from my usual "cram as much architecture and code into 60 minutes without pausing for breath" presentation style, I'm going to pull... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_steven_we.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_steven_we.html MAX 2007 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:15:30 +0000 Building Rich Internet Applications with Cairngorm and LiveCycle Data Services Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Peter has been technical architect on an incredibly complex project for one of our customers who you will be seeing and hearing quite a bit about at MAX this year. The project - for a customer in the manufacturing industry - is an incredibly rich and beautiful dashboard experience built in Flex, that sits upon the customers existing J2EE infrastructure. The project has been man-years of development, and continues to platform upon LiveCycle ES... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_peter_mar.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_peter_mar.html MAX 2007 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:07:43 +0000 So I'm very much looking forward to MAX 2007; not only will there be a record attendance, there's going to be a record attendance of Adobe Consultants, drawn from our Technology and User Experience Design practices. We're participating in a number of different ways, whether it be slots in the keynote, sessions from our consultants, "chalk and talk" sessions in the halls, panel sessions or our very own Adobe Consulting Birds of a Feather that I'll tell you more about shortly. I'm going to throw a few blog posts out highlighting where you'll find us; it's a great opportunity to... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_adobe_con.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/09/acmax_adobe_con.html MAX 2007 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:58:27 +0000 Is it really March since I last blogged....anyway; I'm speaking at a local chapter of the Usability Professionals Association tomorrow evening. It's always a pleasure to speak at the UPA chapters - there is always a great blend of technologists, human-centrered designers and line of business owners, such that there's great conversation around the importance of Design and Technology in unison. The talk I'm giving is called "Design Led Innovation", and talks of the Design approach that Adobe Consulting takes to creating innovative human-centered solutions that are able to fuse business needs with end-user needs upon Adobe (and other) technologies.... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/08/speaking_on_des.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/08/speaking_on_des.html General Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:56:24 +0000 http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/06/livecycle_es_-.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/swebster/archives/2007/06/livecycle_es_-.html Flex and LiveCycle Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:26:23 +0000