omniEffect Articles

If you missed the live presentation the recording is now available at the following link: http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/p66428391/  You can also find more great recorded presentations at this link: http://adobeeseminars.com.au/ondemand/.   Quick Note: the meeting starts midway though the introduction.

Copy of the Presentation : PowerPoint 2007. 

Hope everyone found it worthwhile.  Again I’ll post a link to the Adobe Connect session as soon as I have it.

Connect Session: http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/developer/

Resource Links:

Community Help

http://community.adobe.com/ion/

Developer Connection

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/

Flex Resources

http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flex/

Touch Resources

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_internal_reflection
2. http://nuigroup.com/touchlib/
3. http://code.google.com/p/touchlib/
4. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65
5. http://www.ptgrey.com

Copy of the Presentation : PowerPoint 2007. 

Hope everyone found it worthwhile.  Again I’ll post a link to the Adobe Connect session as soon as I have it.

Connect Session: http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/web/

Resource Links:

CS3 SWF Kit

• http://www.adobe.com/go/flex3_cs3_swfkit
• http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/pdf/swf9.pdf

Community Help

http://community.adobe.com/ion/

Developer Connection

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/

Flex Resources

http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flex/

Copy of the Presentation deck in PowerPoint 2007 format: PowerPoint 2007.  Links found in the resources slides are below.

General

• Command Proxy – http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/01/17/commandproxy-net-air-integration-proof-of-concept/
• OSC – http://www.benchun.net/flosc/
• TUIO – http://opensoundcontrol.org/node/76

Adobe:

• http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/
• http://www.adobe.com/products/air/
• http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/

Multi-Touch:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_internal_reflection
• http://nuigroup.com/touchlib/
• http://code.google.com/p/touchlib/
• http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65
• http://www.ptgrey.com

RFID (Radio Frequency ID):

• http://www.phidgets.com/
• http://www.globalrfidsys.com/

GPS (Global Positioning):

• http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/index.html
• http://www.mrgadget.com.au/gadget/2008/qstarz-q1000platinum-bluetooth-gps-receiver-store-up-to-200k-travel-records/

Wii Remote:

• http://www.bluesoleil.com/
• http://wiiflash.bytearray.org/
• http://www.WiiFlash.org

Jobs – George Patterson Y&R is looking for experienced Producers, Brisbane, AU.  Please feel free to contact Amanda.Bowden@gpyr.com.au or head over to http://www.omnieffect.com/contact to contact us.

It’s that time of the year again and Mike is very happy to be once again ( its actually my third time sort-a ) presenting at WebDU 2008, here’s the link to the session: Click Here

So what sort of stuff are we hooking up ? Well you should see a Multi-Touch table,  RFID and Wii Remote ( yes Geoff Light Sabers !!! ) and if we are lucky some GPS action.

“omniEffect TouchPoint”

Below are the first few slides from the presentation, for those who are familiar with my Adobe E-Sessions will now be used to Mike rambling about the “why?” bit.

Oh yeah and here’s something to watch.  Some RFID fun in the office.  Many thanks to the crew at George Patterson Y&R for their help.  Not playing also try here : Watch Skit

Copy of the Presentation, currently PowerPoint 2007: PowerPoint 2007

Source as follows:

• Source Example (35mb) Import into Flex Builder using File -> Import -> Other -> “Existing projects into Workspace”.  To use unzip the files to a local file system then import existing projects into your current Workspace.
  
• AC Drag Drop (14mb) Import using File -> Import -> Flex Project.  To use simply import the Flex project by selecting the Zip file directly.
  
• AC File IO (14mb) Import using File -> Import -> Flex Project.  To use simply import the Flex project by selecting the Zip file directly.

We get this a bit, but in short (and to avoid long caffeine fuelled discussions), Mike wrote this definition on WikiPedia a while back, and it is really what OE is about: Content Re-appropriation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content re-appropriation. Simply, the Semantic Internet will reveal itself as we get past the User Experience, dominant browser and operating systems issues.

In 2004, when Michael was working for Oracle in UK in an Architecture role, he was looking at Java Server Faces, SVG/JavaScript, Laszlo and Royal (which we now know today as Flex 3 ), as part of an internal Desktop Integration research project.  Mike was researching a way to express all the goodness of Oracle and E-Business suite in a singular dynamic browser independent way.

Michael could see the coming change to the industry and wanting to be part of the new direction he left Oracle and returned to Australia, and established his own company – the birth of omniEffect.

In 2005/2006 Michael built prototypes and presented to numerous companies in Australia and UK, all focused on expressing data in a way users want to see it.

2007/2008 has really been about the acceptance of Adobe Flex / AIR and now Microsoft WPF/Silverlight, as similar tools for achieving the same thing – which now comes with the catch phrase – “RIA” Rich Internet Applications. 

At the end of the day, OE in an information company which accesses creative people, services and products. OE is focused on getting information to people in a way which they can use – regardless of the medium.

Products: Mike built a generic ESB in Java frameworks ( OE Universal ) for the purpose of empowering Content Re-appropriation, and in 2005 chose Flex as the singular conduit for putting this information in to people’s hands and target End Points i.e. Systems.

Why? To solve problems faster and to express the outcomes in a meaningful way.

Web Site: www.omnieffect.net – it’s coming, bit like the Death Star in construction using Drupal 6 and Flex 3, keep watching us build something interesting.

Finally a presentation – omniEffect Universal in 2004.  Even back Michael had identified the new direction.

… and something to watch – http://www.omnieffect.net/content/introduction-ria-and-oracle-e-business-suite-hrms

Copy of the Presentation in PowerPoint 2007 format: PowerPoint 2007. 

Hope everyone found it worthwhile.

Copy of the Presentation in various formats: PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint 2003. 

Hope everyone found it worthwhile.  I’ll post a link to the Adobe Connect session as soon as I have it.

Source Example

Connect: http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/developer/

Copy of the Presentation in various formats: PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint 2003, SWF and PDF

Hope everyone found it worthwhile.  I’ll post a link to the Adobe Connect session as soon as I have it.

Code fragments and examples to come.