Marco Casario is one of the most dynamic developers and consultants in the Adobe world. He has been passionate about Informatics since he was a child. Marco used to program games in Basic for the Commodore 64 before dedicating himself, while still very young, to innovative projects for the Web using Flash and Director (as far back as versions 3 and 5). In 2001, Marco began to collaborate with Macromedia Italia. Since then he has produced and taken part in a long series of presentations, conferences, and articles, which you can find listed in detail in his blog, "Hands on Adobe World" (http://casario.blogs.com), which is currently receiving several thousand visitors every day. In 2005, Marco founded Comtaste (www.comtaste.com), a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet Applications and the convergence of the Web and the world of mobile devices. MobyMobile (www.mobymobile.com) and YouThru (www.youthru.com) are representatives of recent work. Marco is also the founder of the biggest worldwide Flash Lite User Group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashLite/) and of www.augitaly.com, a reference point for the Italian community of Adobe users. He is Content Manager for the section dedicated to Flex (www.augitaly.com/flexgala.) Marco is currently busy working on the development (in Flex) of a very ambitious project concerning European bank counters. He is involved in various consulting and Flex and Flash Media Server training activities for the realization of Rich Internet Applications on behalf of buyers such as Capgemini, Engineering, IBM partners, and Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd. Marco often speaks at national and international conferences such as Adobe MAX Conference, 360Flex, FromAToWeb, AdobeLive and many others.
Speaker at Adobe MAX Conference, 360Flex Conference, AdobeLive
Rich user interfaces and a satisfactory user experience are fundamental factors of Rich Internet Applications. Improved productivity, more effective work, time and cost reduction in the field of both operations and applications development are an important plus which deserves to be higlited when evaluating the suitability of tecnologies for applications projects.
New development approaches have recently come to market : Flex, AIR, Flash, XUL, OpenLazlo, Silverlight, WPF, JavaFX. There are so many different technologies that it’s easy to lose focus and misjudge goals when choosing a RIA platform.
How to choose the best technology? What are their advantages? Which one is going to get the widest adoption? What can you do with them? This session guides you through the ecosystem of RIA's technologies, analyzing and comparing the benefits, features and disadvantages of each approach. Make the final RIA choice for your web applications.