Adobe Community Experts

Rich Tretola

Indianapolis, Indiana

Biography

Rich Tretola currently holds the position of Rich Applications Technical Lead at Herff Jones Inc. He is an award-winning Flex developer and was the lead author of Professional Flex 2 and sole author of Beginning AIR. He is also a contributing author for the Adobe AIR Cookbook.

Rich has been building Internet applications for over 10 years and has worked with Flex since the original Royale beta version of Flex in 2003. Other than Flex, Rich builds applications using ColdFusion, Flash, and Java. Rich runs a popular Flex and AIR blog at EverythingFlex.com, is the community manager of InsideRIA and was also a speaker at the Adobe MAX 2007 conference in Chicago. He will be speaking at MAX 2008 in San Francisco.

For a non technical escape, Rich is also a co-owner of a chocolate bar manufacturing company located on Maui named WowWee Maui.

Credits

Web sites/Blogs:

EverythingFlex

InsideRIA

• Articles:

• Web Developer’s and Designer’s Journal

  Books

• Adobe AIR Cookbook
  Beginning AIR
  Professional Flex 2

  Speaking engagements

  Indianapolis Flex User Group
• FlexManiacs Conference
• 360|Flex
• Adobe MAX 2007, 2008

Discussion groups

Forums
Flex Coders
Flex Components
CFTalk