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Herff Jones Cap & Gown Web Application

adamflater — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:52:28 +0000

The Herff Jones Cap and Gown Sales Order Site was built using the foundational architectural and design concepts built in the Scholastic E-Commerce project.

Adam’s role on the project was to create an architecture founded on the principals defined previously, but suited specifically for the business needs around the Cap and Gown site. The web application was built using AngularJS, Java Spring Web MVC, Hibernate, Adobe CQ, and MS SSIS.

Herff Jones Scholastic E-commerce Site

adamflater — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:51:02 +0000

Herff Jones engaged with Roundarch in 2011 to help design and develop a new e-commerce experience for their scholastic product line. This effort included a massive integration of back end ERP systems into the site, as well as defining an architecture to support portals for each sales rep to customize products, pricing, and content specific to the schools and territories they represent.

Adam was the Technical Director of the technology program on this account. He oversaw several teams responsible for front end implementation, middle tier business logic, a customized enterprise CMS, integration to existing ERP systems, and the build of a custom 3D engine to visual class rings.

The Scholastic E-Commerce Site was built using Bootstrap, Less (and many other HTML/JS/CSS libraries), Java Spring Web MVC, Hibernate, Adobe CQ, a custom 3D engine built in Adobe Flash, and MS SSIS.

Recommendation based on this work:

“Adam is a strategic thinker and brought a wealth of experience and practical knowledge to the project. He always had a positive attitude to solving problems, shared best practices, and could always be reached for counsel.” October 1, 2012

– Sean Bradley, eCommerce Product Manager at Herff Jones (client) | LinkedIn

New Herff Jones High School Site Launched

adamflater — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:07:23 +0000

Herff Jones Scholastic eCommerce.

The new Herff Jones Scholastic eCommerce site is live.

Herff Jones Stitch

adamflater — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:51:36 +0000

In 2011, Herff Jones engage with Roundarch to help them build “Stitch” – a social media platform that enables students to tell the story of their high school life. Stitch is a multi-channel, multi-tentant application that runs in desktop browsers, tablets and mobile devices. In Stitch users can share their photos in an engaging UI, read and publish “Storylines” about their school, and interact with the system and users to gain achievements (similar to Four Square).

Adam served as an architect and the technical director for this project. He defined the foundational architecture for the Flex Browser Application and worked with lead Flex developers to define the system architecture for the mobile and tablet efforts. The team also integrated several features with the organization’s enterprise CMS.

Stitch was built using: Adobe Flex, Blaze DS, AngularJS, Phone Gap, Adobe CQ, and Java.

Pearson Education – aimsweb Overview Video

adamflater — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:46:57 +0000

An overview of the new version of aimsweb from Pearson Education.

Pearson Eduction – Sneak peek of the new aimsweb
Project Showcase: Pearson Education aimsweb

Pearson Eduction – Sneak peek of the new aimsweb

adamflater — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:52:48 +0000

A sneak peek of the new aimsweb from Pearson Eduction

Pearson Education – aimsweb Overview Video
Project Showcase: Pearson Education aimsweb

Pearson Education aimsweb

adamflater — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:09:01 +0000

Pearson Education partnered with Roundarch in early 2011 to build their next generation release of aimsweb. The aimsweb experience was transformed into a highly intuitive, analytically driven web application with data visualization at its core. The Roundarch team helped design and implement the Flex browser front end and Java middle tier application.

Adam was a front end architect on this project, working with the Java architect and the entire team to define a foundational architecture to support the efficiency of the many developers contributing to the project. The core of aimsweb’s technology was built using Adobe Flex and Java Spring.

Bloomberg Sports Front Office

adamflater — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:26:00 +0000

Bloomberg Sports partnered with Roundarch in 2009 to build a next gen tool for baseball analytical data. The application was designed for avid fans and fantasy players to keep track of all the statistics on their favorite players.

As the Flex Technical Architect, Adam led the effort of designing the original front-end architecture and framework that the application was built on. The Bloomberg Sports Front Office application was built using Adobe Flex, Java and many other technologies.

Merapi Update

adamflater — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:43:00 +0000

It has been far too long since I’ve blogged about Merapi, so I thought I would share what’s up with the project. First off, the next release has been coming soon for far too long. That is my responsibility and I apologize to everyone that’s been waiting on the new build. However, there is good news! The new release is now live on the site. Go to www.merapiproject.net and check it out. You can sign up for an account if you aren’t already.

It’s really great to see the Flex community cranking out cool examples with a technology that you’ve created. This is most definitely the case with the recent “Cocomo ready” Air Wiibot. These guys mashed up Cocmo, Flex, and Merapi to control a Lego Mindstorm robot with a Wiimote. So what’s Cocmo for? They’ve used Cocomo for live video conferencing as well as the ability to control the robot remotely. So, if my friend Jordan happened to have Nathan (our Lego Mindstorm robot) at her house, I could fire up this app at my house and control Nathan remotely using a Wiimote… really cool stuff. Here’s the YouTube video:

MAX Recap

For those of you that missed MAX there was a lot of Merapi action, here’s a quick recap.

First off, Tour De Flex.

Tour De Flex is an application created by Adobe used to explore components in the Flex community. Adobe used Merapi to connect the Eclipse plugin portion of the application to the Tour De Flex AIR application. You can get Tour De Flex at: http://flex.org/tour and read more about the Merapi integration on Holly Schinsky’s blog here: Flex/AIR to Java Communication Using Merapi.

Moving right along… There were a few new demos and a couple of Merapi announcements at the sessions we gave at 360 | MAX. One of the first demos I showed was Outlook integration. Here’s the YouTube video:

The next new demo was Excel integration. If you pay attention to the video on this one you will notice one of the announcements we made at MAX, Merapi is now in the browser! In this demo you will see a Flex browser application interact with Excel:

Thanks again to Universal Mind and Adobe for supporting me at MAX.

Coming up…

FlexCamp Chicago 1/23, FlexCamp OC 1/31, and 360 Flex | Indy 5/18-20 (probably)

I’ll be presenting at each of these conferences (assuming Tom and John let me in again.. they have yet to announce speakers)

There will be some especially interesting announcements at FlexCamp Chicago. Make sure you turn out if possible, otherwise, watch the blogosphere for the recap.

Thanks to everyone who has been using Merapi and giving us feedback on the framework. The creativity, ingenuity, support, and patience from the community has been excellent.

Enjoy the new release!

Flex Authority is Live

adamflater — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:47:00 +0000

The first issue of Flex Authority is out! I was lucky enough to attend 360 Flex in San Jose last week and grabbed a pre-release copy there. In addition, Dave Meeker and I were lucky enough to be interviewed by Leif Wells. Leif was really great about coordinating this interview on Merapi. Thanks for your patience Leif.

So, pick up your copy or subscription at Flex-Authority.com and find out more about the Merapi Project direct from Dave and me via Leif.