Greetings WOW Members and Web Professionals everywhere!
For today’s podcast, I sat down to interview Giorgio Natili, developer from Rome, Italy. Giorgio presented this week at Adobe Max 2008 Milan on a variety of topics including “Getting started with ActionScript” and “Flex and Open Source”.
Giorgio is Adobe community expert, a W3C member and the owner of his own company GNStudio, which has been operating in the web development filed for the past 6 years. His field of expertise focus on Adobe Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Coldfusion Flash Media Server, Flex and their integration, as well as accessibility both HTMLand Flash. More recently his interests have broadened to include developing mobile applications and e-learning tools. He also works on various education initiatives to spread awareness on accessibility issues, especially to flash developers.
In this interview, Giorgio talks in some depth about Flex and Open Source with a link to additional resources that he’s developed.
Check out the three minute podcast on today’s WOW Technology Minute website.
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Transcript of Adobe Max 2008 Milan-Interview with Giorgio Natili, developer from Rome, Italy.
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BILL CULLIFER: OK, Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and The WOW Technology Minute here at the Adobe Community Lounge at Adobe Max in Milan, Italy. I have the pleasure to be introducing Giorgio Natili. He is the developer from GNStudios here in Italy, an Adobe expert and a judge for the Web Pro Community Challenge. I want to thank you Giorgio for stopping by the booth and for giving us a summary of your session today. You presented this morning?
GIORGIO: Yeah, exactly.
BILL: How did that go and can you give us a summary of that session? And could you give me the benefits for a Web Professional?
GIORGIO: OK, great, sure. The session was good because there were more or less one hundred guys around so it was a pleasure for me to speak with all these guys. We talked about Flex and the consumer. We focused our attention on the development process with Flex and other Open Source technologies like Radfight, like Jabber, like Blades DS, so the different blocks of the sessions were quite easy. We started explaining to them that these articles about the environment and start easy with these tools because you know, Open Source is not well documented like official products and sometimes it’s difficult to have an easy quick start guide.
So we have done a quick start on these three technologies: Blades, Radfight, and Jabber. Jabber is a protocol and the web user at Open Fire is the server. And we had three basic examples that are simple to work and then three more complex. One is a shot and another one is a streaming media player and another one is a complex connection to a remote object Java service. We have downloaded the connection to these services and getting results, updating the view of the application, etc.
BILL: Excellent. I’m in the audience and I’m listening to or watching this Podcast on designing and developing. How do I benefit?
GIORGIO: They can benefit because now they can start without any problem with this technology. It’s free, it has a step by step configuration, but with the developer in mind. It’s not only doc word that says to you: open that close that. We are a process to be ready in 10 minutes to work with the technologies that you don’t know.
BILL: Yeah, excellent and you have some resources available that these Web Pro’s might go? Can you site those for us?
GIORGIO: Yeah, I have some light and some simple and it would be a pleasure for me to send it to you so you can publish it for free for everybody.
BILL: I appreciate that. Do you happen to have a blog or a Website now that currently has some information about it?
GIORGIO: Yeah.
BILL: What’s the address?
GIORGIO: The address is: www.mxml.it. It’s my personal blog. On this blog there are not too much hard posts.
BILL: OK, we’ll make those resources available.
GIORGIO: The resources will be available also on this blog in the next ten days.
BILL: Excellent. We thank you so much for your time today.
GIORGIO: You’re welcome. It’s been a pleasure.
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