Monthly Archives: January 2007

Time for innovation?

I’ve seen my fair share of Flex projects over the last year but lately can’t help thinking there’s a distinct lack in innovative uses for the technology. Sure there are cool things out there like the Noise Monitoring System Schiphol (note that its Flex 1.5) by MediaCatalyst or the hybrid Flex desktop sync apps like read more »

Ben Forta is coming…

On February 14th, the infamous Ben Forta (Senior Technical Evangelist at Adobe) will be over at the Sofitel Brussels Airport hotel to give us all a sneak peek at Scorpio aka ColdFusion 8. The event is organized by Distrilogie with participation of Adobe and our local user group. Registration is free but required! http://www.distrilogie.be/BE/events/event.aspx?id=4532

Acer support – does it exist?

I’m not a difficult person but is it too much to expect support to do its job? For a few months I’ve been struggling with my old Acer Travelmate notebook (overheating and randomly shutting down when not plugged in).

Flash Player 9 for Linux

Adobe has just announced the official release of Flash Player 9 for Linux, great news for Flex 2 developers. Congrats to the Flash Player team! SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 17, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe® Flash® Player 9 for Linux, the next-generation client runtime for engaging with read more »

Getting into Flash Lite 2.1

Finally got myself a new phone and am absolutely loving the Nokia N70 — its quite a change from my old Sony Ericsson K300i, not in the least because it supports Flash Lite 2.1 of course ;) I’m generally more of a Sony Ericsson enthousiast but their walkman series wasn’t exactly what I needed, next read more »

Flash video… the future is bright?

Somewhat to my surprise I have to admit it has been video that has led to the greatest deployment of Flash based content in the last few years. With big players like Google, YouTube and MySpace using it and people’s insatiable lust for seeing someone getting a ball kicked in the face or a teenager read more »

Flex showcase event

Join us on January 18th at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Antwerp for a Flex showcase event with the MMUG Belgium. 3 renowned interactive agencies show you their latest Flex work. DAD, Nascom and Mediacatalyst will tell you why they chose Flex and how they convinced their clients, which difficulties they came across and how read more »

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