Author: luca mezzalira

Being associated with the industry since 2004, I have lent my expertise predominantly in the solution architecture field. I have gained accolades for revolutionising the scalability of frontend architectures with micro-frontends, from increasing the efficiency of workflows, to delivering quality in products. My colleagues know me as an excellent communicator who believes in using an interactive approach for understanding and solving problems of varied scopes. I helped DAZN becoming a global streaming platform in just 5 years, now as Principal Architect at AWS, I'm helping our customers in the media and entertainment space to deliver cost-effective and scalable cloud solutions. Moreover, I'm sharing with the community the best practices to develop cloud-native architectures solving technical and organizational challenges. My core industry knowledge has been instrumental in resolving complex architectural and integration challenges. Working within the scopes of a plethora of technical roles such as tech lead, solutions architect and CTO, I have developed a precise understanding of various technicalities which has helped me in maximizing value of my company and products in my current leadership roles.

New AIR resource: IRC Channel

Apollocoders group starts with a new resource for AIR: an IRC Channel.
So we could share our experience, suggests resource and ideas, I think a goos idea!

This channel starts today in morning, I’m there with nickname mezzalab, my favourite community nick!
I hope to talk there with a lot of new people.
See you soon and good holiday!

Code Craft, what a good book!

I bought Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Code of Pete GoodLiffe on amazon last month.
I’m reading now this amazing book and I want to advise it to all developers that want write better code.
This book isn’t focus in a specific programming language – author writes about C to explain examples – so you can read very well.

It’ so interesting and I hope to have other impressions about this book, you can find table of contents in amazon site and buy Code Craft there.
A very good read for this summer!

AIR extension for Flash CS3

Richard Galvan in his blog notify that in next days Adobe will release official extension of AIR for Flash CS3.
He don’t give us a date, but in his blog you can find some screenshoots about this argument.

So we’ll stay tuned with labs site!

Multidmedia announces Pandora Project

Yesterday I read Multidmedia newsletter that announced a launch of a big project codename Pandora.
Multidmedia are working on from 14 months so before Adobe announced Apollo!

This software promises to connect all Multidmedia products and create the next generation of desktop Applications.

We don’t know so much about this project, we will have more information in september but now you can read press release page on Multidmedia site.

AIRchat for AIRbus tour

Ted Patrick publish in his blog AIRchat that allow to chat with Adobe people on AIRbus in real time.
A great moment to ask question or talk with AIR team!
You can download AIR application directly from Patrcik’s post in blog.

Have fun!

E-learning on Adobe AIR

Next week, 18th July, I’ll do an e-learning on Adobe AIR technology in Italian with Jaco PixelDump on Actionscript.it.
E-learning starts at 3PM to 4PM and we’ll talk about:
. introduction at Adobe AIR
. how to begin with AIR development
. Adobe AIR API
. prepare an .air files
. example of Native Drag&Drop

To partecipate at the event you can submit your email at actionscript.it event page.

Zinc gamedev contest

Multidmedia launches a game development contest for the best game produces with Flash (or Flex) and Zinc.
You must submit an entire game or a game level which provides a creative and enjoyable gaming experience on the Desktop.
Prizes are a Sony PSP or Flash Software Goodie Bag worth over $1000, with contributions from Electric Rain, Sorenson Media, SitePal, FlashLoaded, Amayeta, PageFlip, Wildform and Blue Pacific.

Entries will close 20th August!

You can find more information in Multidmedia site.

AIR seminar… great day!

This morning I present Adobe AIR technology in Let’s course traning center in Padova.
There were 15 people from all Veneto (Italian region), we talked about AIR power, new features, the technology future and so on.
To see some pictures about the event you can navigate Let’s course blog.

A great moment of aggregation, you found from Desktop Publishing Guru to Multimedia developers, I hope in future to repeat it.

Flash on the beach…see you in November

I’ve just signed in Flash on the beach in Brighton!
So next November I’ll go to Brighton to see this important event.
Few names to understand what a big event is: Hillman Curtis, Joshua Davis, Joey Lott, Richard Leggett, Aral Balkan and so on!
Pre-seminars are all sold out, this is the first year that FOTB organizes this seminars and there are two interesting arguments: OOP with Flex and AS3 and Flash Games!

I hope to see a lots of friendly people there… now we will wait seminars title and arguments… stay tuned guys

AIR seminar

Next week, 7 July, at Let’s course headoffice (via Croce Rossa 112 – Padova – Italy), I’ll present AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime).
In this FREE seminar we will see AIR power, AIR API and some examples.
We will see how to create a file .air, what developers will train to become AIR developers too.

It begins at 9.30 AM to 12.30 AM and then, if you want, we could take a spritz or a beer togheter.
To subscribe you must send an email to info@letscourse.com with subject “AIR seminar”.