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Yesterday Adobe published an update for Acrobat and Adobe Reader installations. This is because of a vulnerability that is considered as critical. This vulnerability uses JavaScript code that can be embed in pdfs to lead to remote code execution.
This vulnerability affects only this versions of the application:* Adobe Reader 8.0 through 8.1.2* Adobe Reader 7.0.9 and earlier* Adobe Acrobat Professional, 3D and Standard 8.0 through 8.1.2* Adobe Acrobat Professional, 3D and Standard 7.0.9 and earlier
You can read more about this issue directly from Adobe Security.
I hope we wont have to get use to this kind of patches and critical updates similar to Microsoft patches for its products where we had to download a new security patch for IExplorer, or Word or Windows every week or less.

Today was the 3rd day in Software Guru 08 Conference and Expo. This time there were a lot of conferences related to project management, strategies for building software , technology, process improvements and more.
I attended to some sessions about, Share Point from Microsoft, Agile Modeling with UML, project management and a Rich Internet Applications conference where there were people from Adobe introducing Adobe Flex, Microsoft presenting Microsoft Silverlight, IBM talking about the web standards and Sun talking about JavaFX.
That was really good, many people were in the room, in fact, I embed some videos about that conference where you can see the quality and samples that were shown.
There was also an expo where some companies show their products, solutions and their offer to people that could be looking for business and providers.
Tomorrow it’ll be the last day of conferences and I hope I could have more pics from there. Here you have some media about the event.

Today Edgar Parada and I gave a tutorial about developing RIAs with Adobe Flex at Software Guru ’08 Conference and Expo. If you haven’t heard about SG Conference and Expo, it is an yearly event in Mexico dedicate to IT.
Last year we participated in this event as Speakers where we presented the Flex technology to people focused on Internet applications. This time it was a little different. We gave a tutorial where students learned to create a RIA with Flex Builder, they understood how flash player and flex works and how RIAs can take their work to the next level in the Internet Applications. It was an 8 hours class with around 30 students, mainly developers and some designers.
Their skills were good, really good (that’s one of the things I love), asking some questions about the integration with other CS3 products in the designers side, other questions about integration with BI technologies in the developers side and others about exchanging data with server techs like Java, Ruby and .NET, etc.
Finally we showed some examples including Adobe apps like acrobat.com (Buzzword, Share, ConnectNow), Flex Style Explorer, the famous Flex Store and some in-house applications.
Tomorrow the conferences will start and they have good speakers this time focused on Project Management. I’ve been invited and I’ll post a review about them later.
Regards.

Today I decided to finish the “events” section of my blog.
What I did was share a Google Calendar where I use to organize all the events I’ve planned to attend and also those events I will not be present at.
The kind of events I will post here are events related to Rich Internet Applications, Web 2.0, product releases and almost every event related to Information Technologies, mainly in Mexico City, that I get notified.
Regards and I hope you like it.

Yesterday I received the Flex 3 and AIR Posters. I was waiting for them since a few weeks and now I can read the content of the classes as I did it with the Flex 2 and ActionScript 3 posters.The posters are just like in the pdf file if you downloaded it.
This time, my favorite poster is the ActionScript 3 because it has the API for Adobe AIR too. And although the Flex 2 posters also have this API I think the ActionSciript is the core for all Flash Player.
Talking about Flex Framework posters… we now have one poster for Adittional Classes, one more for Advanced Classes and two posters for Core Classes.
Here I’ll place some images.