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Cross the finish line to fame by creating engaging Flash content for mobile devices. This can win...
Thread posted on Apr 22 by alvinmood

Cross the finish line to fame by creating engaging Flash content for mobile devices. This can win you the Nokia Calling all Innovators (http://www.callingallinnovators.com) contest in the Flash category.

Yes, Nokia has added the Flash category to its Caiing all Innovators contest which challenges mobile and web application developers worldwide to submit best-in-class applications for use on Nokia devices.

To qualify for the Flash category, you need to submit your application for S60 or Series 40 Nokia devices, using either a Symbian Signed .SIS format (for S60 devices) or .NFL format (for Series 40 devices).

Contestents stand a chance to win around $ 250 K including special prize pf $ 10 K in Flash category besides getting a Spotlight placement in the Nokia Ovi Store.

Nokia Contest for Flash developers
Thread posted on May 21 by alvinmood

If you have the knowledge of Flash technology, the Forum Nokia Calling All Innovators contest has a category dedicated to flash developers. For taking part in the contest you need to develop an innovative Flash application for S60 or Series 40 Nokia devices, using either a Symbian Signed .SIS format (for S60 devices) or .NFL format (for Series 40 devices).

To help interested developers there is a $10 million Open Screen Project Fund from Nokia for granting funds to developers who are creating applications and services for mobile, desktop and consumer electronics devices using the Adobe Flash® Platform on themes such as entertainment; social networking; productivity; gaming; news and information.

Total cash and prizes are worth more than $250,000 (USD), and include immediate business opportunities with Nokia.

Create Flash Applications for Forum Nokia, Win Great Prizes
Thread posted on May 28 by alvinmood

If you work on Adobe Flash Lite, its time to make your mark on the world stage. And that too on a global platform as big as one with the Forum Nokia brand name.

There is a special category for application designed on Flash for mobile devices, (especially for 60 and most Series 40 devices). Flash applications which make the most of touch-based input methods have a better chance of winning the contest.

If you win the contest, the whole world will sit up and take notice. Plus, you get a chance to work with Nokia, get a premium placement for your application on their Ovi Store and win mega prizes worth $250,000.

For more details visit http://www.callingallinnovators.com

New Flash Platform Tools
Thread posted on Jun 02 by PrabhuNM

Adobe yesterday announced further advancements to the Adobe Flash Platform with the beta availability of

1. Flash Catalyst: is a professional development tool designed to help software developers rapidly build rich Internet applications (RIAs).

2. Flash Builder 4: is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating application user interfaces without coding.

3. Flex 4 framework: is an open source framework for building RIAs that will allow developers and designers to more easily collaborate on projects.

Products News: http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Adobe-gives-Flash-a-programming-boost/0,339028227,339296744,00.htm

                          http://www.swfgeek.net/2009/05/31/adobe-flash-builder-4-and-flash-catalyst-public-beta-available-on-adobe-labs/

Products Slides Show : http://www.mikechambers.com/mesh/files/flashcamp/FlashCampKeynote.pdf

                                    https://share.acrobat.com/adc/adc.do?docid=181f25c3-9614-4711-905d-d999921efe83

Products Video: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flash/videos/flashcamp/keynote/

                          http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flash/videos/

Products Download: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flash

Last but not least, Adobe's long reign as the leading maker of tools for online rich media creation and the master of Flash technology is increasingly threatened by Microsoft, which has been promoting its competing Silverlight technology heavily. Microsoft is planning to introduce Silverlight 3 on July 10.

Cheers,

prabhu

Show Your Creativity As a Developer and Get Famous
Thread posted on Jun 11 by alvinmood

Do you have the capability to do something different from others as a mobile application developer? Take part in the Forum Nokia’s “Calling All Innovators” contest and create an application that mobile users would love to use and remain spell bound with its functionality. 

This will not only earn you gratitude from the millions of mobile users but can also rocket your career upwards because if you win you will get to work with the world leader in mobile technology Nokia. The Forum Nokia Calling All Innovators Competition is open to all web and mobile application developers, and features four distinct categories for submissions by June, 30, 2009

For more information visit http://www.callingallinnovators.com

10 More Days to Go for A Global Forum Nokia Contest
Thread posted on Jun 19 by alvinmood

After the successful Calling All Innovators Contest 2008, Forum Nokia’s 2009 CAI contest is hunting innovative applications in four different categories. This time also Forum Nokia is inviting fresh ideas frpm web and mobile developers from across the globe for exploiting the mobile world. Just few more days are left for submission i.e. 30th June, 2009.

What Nokia is looking for is an experience that’s relevant and compelling for mobile users, wherever they are in the world. The best application will win cash awards worth $30,000– and Nokia will distribute it worldwide in its new Ovi Store, online Nokia application store.

For more information visit www.callingallinnovators.com

New Open Source component for Adobe Flex
Thread posted on Aug 11 by Mindset Designs

Hi everyone! We have developed a component for data visualization by using SVG graphics. The component is Open Source and is available to everyone.

The name of the component is Mindset Geometrics and can be found following this link:

http://www.mindset-geometrics.com.ar

Here are some live examples:

We would love to hear your comments, feature requests and suggestions to improve the components.

Cheers!

New Open Source component for Adobe Flex
Thread posted on Aug 11 by Mindset Designs

Hi everyone! We have developed a component for data visualization by using SVG graphics. The component is Open Source and is available to everyone.

The name of the component is Mindset Geometrics and can be found following this link:

http://www.mindset-geometrics.com.ar

Here are some live examples:

We would love to hear your comments, feature requests and suggestions to improve the components.

Cheers!

Job opening: Flash Platform Developer
Thread posted on Aug 24 by abdulqabiz

Hi,

I am based in Kanpur and trying to build a RIA team, which would work on various challenging projects and some products (which I have planned).

I posted job details on relevent section in this group but have not seen any response so far. So I thought to post the link in discussion area, hopefully it catches some attention and I get connected to smart folks like you.

Job Post: http://groups.adobe.com/posts/16f7efb5af

(Not sure, it's ok to post job details in discussion-area, however, I feel it should be alright. If it's not, please let me know, I would not do it again :-) )

If you are interested to know about my background, I am writing following two paragraphs (shameless act) to talk about me :-)

I moved back to Kanpur with some vision and ideas last year. I am a passionate Flash Platform developer for quite a long time, you can think of me as vetran or old-timer. I have worked with Macromedia/Adobe (in Flex Team for 1.5 and 2.0 releases), Mixercast, Yahoo! and other companies.

I am one of the oldest manager (after Manish Jethani) manager of http://groups.google.com/group/flex_india and been very active on various forums and community activities. I was involved in bootstrapping Bangalore and Pune Flex User Groups.

You can check out more at:-

http://linkedin.com/in/abdulqabiz
http://abdulqabiz.com/blog/
http://alliesinteractive.com

http://twitter.com/abdulqabiz

Please let me know, if you know someone who would be interested to join our team and doesn't mind relocating to a different city for working on great stuff.

Thanks

Effective Software Estimation
Thread posted on Sep 29 by Ravi S Sharma

These tips are taken from Software Estimation – Demystifying the Black Art by Steve McConnell, published in the Microsoft Best Practices series.  This book has proved to be an invaluable resource and I recommend it to anyone responsible for providing software estimates, be they developer, team lead or project manager.  The tips listed are not exhaustive and should be considered in their original context.

Critical Estimation Concepts

• When you’re asked to provide an estimate, determine whether you’re supposed to be estimating or figuring out how to hit a target.
• A target is a description of a desirable business objective; a commitment is a promise to deliver defined functionality at a specific level of quality by a certain date. A commitment can be the same as the estimate, or it can be more aggressive or more conservative but do not assume that it is the same.
• Avoid using single point estimations, use ranges. Avoid using artificially narrow ranges so that you do not misrepresent the confidence in your estimates.
• Never intentionally underestimate. The penalty for underestimation is more severe than the penalty for over estimation. Address concerns about over estimation through planning and control, not by bias.
• Recognize a mismatch between a project’s business target and a project’s estimate for what it is: valuable risk information that the project might not be successful. Take corrective action as early as possible.
• Consider the effect of the Cone of Uncertainty on the accuracy of your estimate. Your estimate cannot have more accuracy than is possible at your project’s current position within the Cone. Use predefined ranges in your estimates.
• Include all necessary software development activities in your estimates, not just coding and testing. For example:
  1. Mentoring of new team members;
  2. Deployment;
  3. Requirements Clarification;
  4. Technical Reviews;
  5. Performance Tuning;
  6. Creation of Test Data.
• On projects that last longer than a few weeks, always include allowances for overhead activities such as vacations, sick days, training days and meetings.
• Never give an off-the-cuff estimate. Even a 15 minute estimate will be more accurate.
• Always document assumptions embedded in an estimate.
• Match the number of significant digits in your estimate (its precision) to your estimate’s accuracy. For example:
  1. “This Project will take 1 year” is not very precise but could be accurate.
  2. “This Project will require 7,214 staff hours” is very precise but not accurate to the precision stated.
• Don’t assume that effort scales up linearly as project size does. Effort and communication paths scale up exponentially.

Fundamental Estimation Techniques

• Look for something you can count that is a meaningful measure of the scope of work in your environment.
• Collect historical data that allows you to compute an estimate from a count. Our organization’s past performance is the best indicator of future performance, industry data is not reliable.
• Collect a project’s historical data as soon as possible after the end of a project.
• At all costs, avoid using expert judgement to tweak an estimate that has been derived through computation.
• To create task level estimates, have the people who will actually do the work create the estimate.
• Create both Best Case and Worst Case estimates to stimulate the thinking about the full range of possible outcomes.
• Estimate new projects by comparing them to similar past projects, preferably decomposing the estimate into at least five pieces.
• Re-estimate at each milestone. Base new estimates on the project’s actual progress, not on the project’s planned progress.
• Communicate your plan to re-estimate to project stakeholders in advance.

Estimation Scheduling Challenges

• Do not shorten a schedule estimate without increasing the effort estimate.
  1. Larger teams require more coordination and management overhead.
  2. Larger teams introduce more communication paths which introduce more chances to miscommunication which introduces more errors.
  3. Shorter schedules require more work to be done in parallel. The more work that overlaps, the higher than chance that one piece of work will be based on another defective piece of work increasing the need for rework.
• Reduce costs by lengthening the schedule and conducting the project with a smaller team.
• Consider the project’s development approach in allocating schedule to different activities.

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Ravi

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