Agile Alliance Announces Full Program for Agile 2009 Conference

The Agile Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the concepts of Agile software development, today announced the full conference program for its Agile 2009 Conference, set for August 24 – 28 in Chicago http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/ . In its seventh year, the Agile Conference is the premiere event for the growing Agile community, providing software professionals with the latest knowledge and shared experiences to help foster successful Agile development programs. This year’s conference will feature more than 300 sessions presented by 329 leading Agile experts and practitioners, based on a record number of speaking submissions gathered during the past six months. To review the latest schedule of Agile 2009 sessions, encompassing all levels of Agile experience, please visit http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/ .

Intelligere SCS RC1

We are pleased to announce the new release of the new release of Intelligere SCS, a complete web conference system released open source.

In the next month a demo space will be arranged and published on the web, in the meanwhile the old web demo is still in place here (login as admin admin), the new space will provide free space and account for all the userS!

The new features are:

• A control panel in order to handle sessions duration, speakers, user accounts and in order to manage invitation (php adn MySql)
• The Flex to PPT converter now use Open Office so it’s no more needed the Microsoft Office license on the server or the .NET support
• The screen sharing has been improved and debugged (30% faster than before)
• The documentation has been improved (three different manuals in two different languages)
• The file transfer between connected client has been added, it uses the Flash Player 10 new features
• The software is compliant with the Flex 3.4 SDK
• The RED5 synchronization and streaming support has been re-engineered and improved (RED5  RC1 compliant)
• All the major bug have been fixed

Feel free to contact us for guided tour or for assistance.

Agile Conference 2009

Agile 2009 is the premier international conference in agile development. The conference looks forward to hosting more than 1600 participants from all over the world in one of North America’s most exciting cities.

Agile 2009 will be an exciting international conference about techniques and technologies, attitudes and policies, research and first-hand experience, from both the management and technical sides of agile software development. The agile approach focuses on delivering business value early in the project lifetime and being able to incorporate emergent requirements. It accentuates the use of rich, informal communication channels and frequent delivery of running, tested systems, while attending to the human component of software development.

Agile 2009 gives attendees access to the latest thinking in this domain, and bridges communities that rarely get a chance to exchange ideas and thoughts. It brings together researchers from labs and academia with executives, managers, and developers in the trenches of software development. The conference is not about a single methodology or approach, but rather provides a forum for the exchange of information regarding all agile development technologies.

See you in Chicago http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/

Intelligere Flash Lite Server

Intelligere Flash Lite Server (FLS) is a c++ opoen source component that gives to you the possibility to interact with the API of a symbian device from Flash Lite.
Using FLS you can  extend the capabilities of your Flash Lite application making some simple HTTP calls sending commands and getting back data in ths SWF file.

The workflow of the application can be summarized as following

The main features of FLS are

-    Launch native video  player in full screen mode (launchVP)
-    Download a file from the NET (download)
-    Check the percentage of the download in progress (status)
-    Create the APN without opening the native selector (createAP) -> certificate is requested
-    Read variables without opening the APN selector (loadVariables)
-    Stop all the downloads (stop)
-    Close the whole application (exit)
-    Create a file (create)
-    Delete a file (delete)
-    Write content into a file deleting everything before (write)
-    Append content to a file (append)
-    Clear all the contents of a file (clear)
-    Rename a file (rename)
-    Check if a file exist (exist)
-    Get all the content of a directory (dir)
-    Create a directory (mkdir)
-    Delete a directory (rmdir)

In the RC2 version planned by the end of June 2009 the following feature will be added

-    Get a picture from the camera (mkPict)

You can get the source code from here.

Agile software development

Our company believe in the Agilde Development methodology and work in this way since more than one year.

Agile software development is a collection of methodologies (Extreme Programming, Scrum, Crystal, and Dynamic Systems development, etc.) designed to solve the problems associated with the long development cycles of traditional waterfall development methods. Agile methods are iterative processes designed to be more flexible, and are driven by cooperation between programmers and customers. This leads to increased customer satisfaction as well as more rapid release of functional software.

The principles behind agile methods were laid out in the Agile Manifesto in 2001:
- Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools.
- Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation.
- Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation.
- Responding to Change over Following a Plan.

Since today we are proud to announce that GNstudio is a corporate member of the Agile Alliance.

Sun’s GlassFish team was at the Code Camp

You can read through the slides for GlassFish: The Best Open Source Application Server and Rails powered by GlassFish. The demos shown in the talk are available at:

• Develop/Run/Debug Rails application using NetBeans and GlassFish
• Rapid Deployment Technology for Web application using NetBeans and GlassFish
• Tic Tac Toe using Rails and GlassFish
• Embeddable GlassFish in Action
• Deploying OSGi bundles in GlassFish

Femtocell, are you ready?

In telecommunications, a femtocell—originally known as an Access Point Base Station—is a small cellular base station, typically designed for use in residential or small business environments. It connects to the service provider’s network via broadband (such as DSL or cable); current designs typically support 2 to 5 mobile phones in a residential setting. A femtocell allows service providers to extend service coverage indoors, especially where access would otherwise be limited or unavailable. The femtocell incorporates the functionality of a typical base station but extends it to allow a simpler, self contained deployment; for example, a UMTS femtocell containing a Node B, RNC and GSN with Ethernet for backhaul. Although much attention is focussed on UMTS, the concept is applicable to all standards, including GSM, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA and WiMAX solutions.

For a mobile operator, the attractions of a femtocell are improvements to both coverage and capacity, especially indoors. There may also be opportunity for new services and reduced cost. The cellular operator also benefits from the improved capacity and coverage but also can reduce both capital expenditure and operating expense.

A number of ‘must have’ attributes will enable telecoms operators to implement femtocell technology, and thereby boost ARPU and market share.
Dropped calls, patchy reception or the dreaded no service zone – everyone has experienced one if not all of these inconveniences while talking on their mobile phone. It’s a common, sometimes daily, occurrence for many users, yet more and more people have opted to completely drop their landline and survive with only their mobile phone.
Click here to find out more!

According to a recent European Commission survey of 27,000 homes across the European Union, 24% currently use mobile phones-only at home – a number that’s expected to grow. And we’re already beginning to see how this impacts operator offerings, as landlines are decoupled from bundled services.

Consumers, especially younger consumers, are in part responsible for driving this trend. This group has certainly increased mobile phone usage within the home, and current indoor coverage is not always satisfactory for some wireless networks. This is where femtocell technology comes in. By enhancing the wireless signal, femtocells make dropped calls, patchy reception or “no service” a thing of the past.

Learn more about fetmocell here.

Flex camp Italy

The Adobe User Group flex-developers.org invite you at Flex camp Milan, a free one day gathering with food, drinks, coding and time with the Flex and Apollo engineers covering everything you need to know about the upcoming release of Flex 3 and Adobe AIR.

Milan 07th November 2008 – 10:00 AM

For more information check the full agenda.

360|Flex and Accessibility of ILOG Elixir charts

During this month we’ll be in San Jose for the 360|Flex, during the presentation we’ll talk about the accessibility of the Flex Framework and we’ll eplore how to create an accessible custom component.

The presentation will be on Flex and Accessibility with a practical demo of how to make ILOG Elixir component accessible for impaired users; the component we would like to work on is the OrgChart component on which we’ll implement a short description and a long one that is readable from the screen readers.

After the presentation we’ll publish for sure a lot of slides and practical samples.

Flash player engineers

Watch the interview here:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1564561905/bclid1564555900/bctid1564557060

topics covered include:

-garbage collecting loaded .swf files

-ecmascript4: is it too much?
-future of the web client ecosystem
-life as a player engineer

-history of flash player’s internals

-macromedia and adobe culture

-flash player engineering process

-politics of the web
-future player features

-jon gay’s vector renderer