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 the what the guys from Nascom did for Sony Vaio.
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!
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).
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 Flash content and applications on Linux open source operating systems. Adobe Flash Player 9 delivers a consistent cross-platform experience and extends unprecedented performance and advanced features to the broadest set of developers and users to date. Additionally, Linux developers can create, test and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the Linux platform using the free Adobe Flex® 2 Software Developers Kit (SDK), Adobe Flash Player 9 and the free Flex Data Services 2 Express.
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 on my list was the Nokia N80 - which I had seen in action and is a very impressive indeed - in the end decided that WiFi functionality wasn’t worth the premium for me. I usually travel with my laptop anyway and it turned out to be double the price of the deal I could get for an N70.
With Total Training having just released a new training title by Dale Rankine on Flash Lite 2.1 development I look forward to finally getting involved with that. To be honest it was Richard’s session at Flash on the Beach last December that convinced me to get a S60 phone. Unlike some other people I’ve talked to who are a little less optimistic, I see a real market emerging for Flash based content on the phone — especially if we can possible work towards mobile/desktop convergence with Apollo.
http://www.totaltraining.com/prod/adobe/flashlite21_cma.asp
Does anyone have any further links for getting into Flash Lite 2.1 development?
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 singing karaoke to the latest pop jingle with a hairbrush for a mic — we are all enjoying a greatly increased Flash Player install base.
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 they fixed it.
