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ThoughtFaqtory is looking for new talent

Posted by Simon in AIR, Adobe, Apple, Employment, Flash, Flex, Objective-C, iPad, iPhone on Jul 28th, 2010 | 0 comments

We are currently looking for new talent to join our team. Head over to the Careers page to find out more.

The current positions available including the skills required to perform this job effectively:

Flex developers

  • Adobe Flex
  • Rich Internet application development
  • Strong working knowledge of usability focused interfaces
  • Object-oriented programming, analysis and design with ActionScript3
  • Custom Flex component development built on Adobe’s Flex framework.
  • Flex-Database integration using Web Services, Flash Remoting, and/or Data Services.
  • Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES/ BlazeDS, Flash Communication Server / Media Server
  • Eclipse and Ant
  • Java
  • AJAX development experience a plus.

UI developers

  • Adobe Flex
  • ASP.Net
  • C#
  • MVC Architecture
  • Silverlight
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • HTML/HTML5
  • XML
  • AJAX

Java developers

  • Oracle, MySQL
  • JVM (J2EE, JDK, JRE), API, XML
  • Apache Tomcat
  • Spring
  • Redhat, Linux, Solaris
  • Hibernate / JPA / ORM
  • JCR
  • Any web application framework
  • Java2D, PDF, Postscript programming
  • GWT, AJAX development
  • Test-driven development
  • Adobe Flex/AIR Development a plus

iPhone/iPad developers

  • Experience in iPad Development
  • Expertise in Mac OS X, Objective-C 2.0, Xcode, Interface Builder, and Instruments
  • Expertise in device partitioning and code signing
  • Expertise in consuming web services from iOS applications
  • Expertise in SQLite and database work
  • Experience with SCM toolsAbility to design consistent, easy-to-use UI’s
  • Mastery of iOS API’s
  • Self starter, able to work independently
  • Good communication skills
  • Ability to explain development concepts to other developers
  • Experience with Subversion
  • Experience with both SOAP and REST

PruHealth and ThoughtFaqtory deliver healthier interactive lifestyle online

Posted by Simon in Adobe, Development, Enterprise, Flash, Flex, Java, RIA on Jul 27th, 2010 | 0 comments

Pruhealth UK

Award-winning health insurance provider uses the Adobe Flash Platform to create a unique interactive online service empowering customers to lead healthier, happier lives.

A new take on healthcare
For many people, the concept of wellness is relegated to an occasional visit to the doctor at the first sign of illness or for an annual check-up. But with climbing insurance premiums — particularly for employees who make contributions to employer-sponsored plans — and frequent coverage from news outlets about the dangers of an unhealthy lifestyle, more citizens are rethinking their approach to healthy living.

Pruhealth Screenshot

“We’ve always viewed ourselves as a leader and innovator in the insurance industry,” says Paulo dos Santos, CIO at PruHealth. “Encouraging and rewarding our customers with discounted premiums and other services for living a healthier lifestyle would certainly distinguish us from our competitors. We needed to create a unique program to deliver that message. Adobe software and technologies proved to be the most logical choice to achieve that goal.”

Working with our business applications development team at ThoughtFaqtory, PruHealth adopted the Adobe Flash Platform, including Adobe Flex Builder, to create an interactive online, incentive-based curriculum that encourages physical activity, healthy eating, and smoking cessation among the many ways for customers to earn redeemable points and valuable rewards. The challenge for us was to build a rich experience, that was easy to use, enjoyable to work through and be able to retain the users interest throughout the completion of the health and fitness goals process.

Pruhealth Screenshot

With the Adobe Flash Platform, PruHealth provides customers with richly detailed and dynamically animated graphs and charts, giving them a comprehensive understanding of how their habits affect their health and wellness.

Leveraging the Adobe Flash Platform and Adobe Flex Builder 3, PruHealth delivered its innovative online Vitality Interactive application, a secure online portal to accompany the long-standing Vitality Program. The dynamic portal features a range of interactive wellness tools that enable customers to create their own health and fitness goals and timelines.

“With the Adobe Flash Platform, we created a richly animated site that brings a unique visual perspective to show customers how their daily habits contribute to their overall health and wellness,” says Greg Peringuey, development manager for PruHealth Online.

The application provides customers with a questionnaire about their current lifestyle choices—exercise habits, calorie intake, and lifestyle choices, among many others. They can watch as rich-media charts and graphs update instantly with their answers to paint a comprehensive picture of lifestyle changes they can make to live healthier, and save money.

The full Adobe Success Story is available here.

Adobe Flash, One Web, Any Screen

Posted by Simon in AIR, Android, Flash, Flex, Mobile, RIA on Apr 2nd, 2010 | 0 comments

Flash brings the web to life: One web, any screen: See Flash on the new Dell 5 tablet, Dell 12 smartbook (Latitude Xt2), Palm Pre, Nexus One, Motorola Droid, and HP mini 311 netbook.

Lets help Adobe

Posted by Simon in AIR, Flash, Flex, RIA on Feb 8th, 2010 | 0 comments

If you follow any of the Adobe guys involved in Flash and AIR on Twitter, you may have come across a few tweets regarding improving Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0.

It is pretty simple process, just follow these steps:

Also, please spread the word on Twitter – Improve Flash 10.1 & AIR 2.0 via Beta 2 http://bit.ly/cty7Nm READ & RT #Flash #AIR #QUALITY

Adobe AIR 2.0 Beta 2 Released

Posted by Simon in AIR, Flash, Flex on Feb 3rd, 2010 | 0 comments

Discussing New Printing Features in the AIR 2 Beta 2 from Ryan Stewart on Vimeo.

Adobe® have released AIR® 2 beta 2 on Adobe Labs. Adobe AIR 2 provides end users with exceptional application experiences while giving developers the easiest and most powerful way to develop desktop applications across multiple platforms (Mac, Windows, and Linux).

AIR 2 builds on the success of AIR 1 by giving developers new capabilities, and even tighter integration with the desktop. Some new features of AIR 2 include:

  • Enhanced support for interacting with printers (beta 2)
  • Support for TLS/SSL socket communication (beta 2)
  • Support for the detection of mass storage devices.
  • Advanced networking capabilities like secure sockets, UDP support, and the ability to listen on sockets.
  • Support for native code integration.
  • The ability to open a file with its default application.
  • Multi-touch and gesture support.
  • New APIs for access to raw microphone data.
  • Webkit update with HTML5/CSS3 support.
  • Global error handling.
  • Improved cross-platform printing
  • Improved security and support for enterprise and government standards.

Two new features that developers may be particularly interested in are the following:

  • Print Job Enhancements
    New properties and methods have been added to the PrintJob class to give you better control of the way content is printed from an AIR application, including the choice of printer, paper size, and number of copies. New properties also give you more information about the printer, such as printable area, whether the printer will print in color, and whether the print job is currently active. The new PrintJobOptions.printMethod property allows you specify whether to use bitmap or vector printing. The PrintJobOptions.pixelsPerInch property allows you to specify the resolution of print jobs. The new PrintUIOptions class allows you to control how much the end user can change the page range to be printed. See PrintJob, PrintJobOptions, and PrintUIOptions.
  • TLS/SSL Sockets
    You can now connect to a server that requires TLSv1 or SSLv3 for socket communications. See SecureSocket.

For a complete list of features and to see what’s new in beta 2, please refer to the Release Notes. For an overview of the new features in AIR 2, please take a look at the following:

The AIR 2 Public beta is your opportunity to explore new features and communicate your feedback. Please remember that that this is beta software, so there will be bugs, incomplete features, some performance issues, and some missing documentation. Therefore, please use the AIR 2 beta only for testing and exploratory purposes.

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