O’Reilly: Inside RIA

The final leg of the On AIR European Tour took us through Prague, Munich and Milan here are my thoughts. On this stage of the tour we were joined by Adrian Ludwig from AIR Marketing, Andrew Shorten an Adobe Evangelist from London and again by Dion Almaer from Google.

Update from the tour! We've just completed the first week of the our tour in Europe. We started in Stockholm, then after 18hrs of train rides and a Ferry ride across the Baltic Sea we ended up in Berlin, the final event in Warsaw was in the Olympic Center in Warsaw, Poland.

So it's just 3 weeks now before the next leg of the Adobe On AIR Tour. I'll be joining up with the crew in Stockholm, Sweden June 2nd to kick off the next 6 cities we'll be visiting and speaking at. If you're interested in attending make sure to sign up now because the events are selling out fast.

The event in Paris was great. It was in the Palais Brongniart which is a really cool venue. I think we had up to 300 attendees at the event. So the Paris event had some kick ass demos that attendees were showing! There was MooFlair which was a beautiful looking video player, I'm definitely going to use this for viewing Blip from now on. The next app was the Elixir dashboard from iLog was really slick too, some very nice tree maps and dynamic maps. Christophe from iLog showed data from Adob'e Jira Bug Tracker and the CIA world fact book. Very cool to see a technology leader like iLog jumping on AIR and Flex. The most amazing thing I saw though was mutli-touch screen running with AIR.

So the OnAIR Tour Europe has officially begun! I joined the crew yesterday evening in Madrid for tapas in the late afternoon. Today's event was a great kick off, we had just over 200 show up and most stayed right until the bitter end. I think everyone understood most of what we were saying, although I can't be sure I think the number of questions we received was a good indicator that people were interested in AIR, Flex, Flash and Ajax.