HP Print Studio, a flex application I was technical lead on, went live. It was a pretty cool project, with a rather large group of developers. There was a significant amount of flex/flash integration, which you will be able to imagine once you see the amount and level of animation in the site. We utilized Cairngorm and Flex 2.01, though I believe there will be a lot to be gained from Flex 3 in the upcoming stages (that’s right, this is just ‘phase 1′ – there’s a lot more to come). On the back end we used .Net and WebOrb for .Net to Flex communication. I was pretty surprised and impressed to have the CEO of WebOrb respond directly to our tech support requests from them.
Also, there is now a demo of Pronto! at Communigate‘s web site. There is also a Beta download at O2 Apps but unfortunately not only does it not work with the latest release of AIR, but Communigate’s official stance is there will not be another Beta release – the next release will be the ‘fully baked’ version. For those of you who missed it, Kevin Lynch, Chief Software architect for Adobe did a demo where he dragged financial data from another AIR application into an email message he was composing in Pronto! The CEO of XIF also did a demo of Pronto! on Day 3 of MAX last year, alongside another demo by the guys at Cynergy. I think there were a total of three such demos that day, so two of them being from companies in D.C. is a pretty cool market indicator, I think. Then again, I’m biased as this is my area I suppose. Anyway, Pronto! was the first Flex application I ever worked on; we started on it when Flex 2 was still in the first alpha release…
