I’m excited to announce that I’ve finally got my training curriculum worked out and will start delivering courses on ActionScript 3.0, Flex and Adobe AIR in early 2008. As many of you know I’ve spent most of last year traveling and speaking at various conferences. I saw this as a great opportunity to try out read more
Just two weeks ago Ted Patrick launched a wonderful initiative where he auctioned some rare bags he had lying around for charity. He pledged to personally double the proceeds and Adobe has a program whereby it doubles any gifts to charity by employees. I managed to get the winning bid on the “Platform Evangelist Team” read more
Some more good news coming from Adobe with them contributing a new virtual machine to the open source Tamarin project. This new VM – internally called QVM – known to the outside world as Tamarin-Tracing essentially brings the power of AVM2 (ActionScript 3.0/ECMAScript 4) to mobile devices. It wouldn’t be a stretch of the imagination read more
[update] Turns out it isn’t quite as bad as I thought — the pay as you go is 0,26 Eurocent or 0,0026 Euro vs 0,00099 Euro buying the extra monthly blocks. Still wish Telenet had better package options and did something about those ridiculous download limits.
We all heard the rumors that something big was coming. Last night Shantanu dressed up as Santa and left the following goodies on labs for us to play with: Flex Builder 3 beta 3 The long awaited beta 3 has been made available, one step closer to a release — be sure to check read more
It was my first year attending the annual FeWeb event and have to say it didn’t disappoint. I signed up for the RIA track which started out with Christophe Herreman talking about the Eduma-tic e-learning tool they develop at IndieGroup, more so than walk through that project he talked about the workflow within their team, read more
My first session of day 2 at JavaPolis was “Thinking in Flex” with none other than Bruce Eckel and James Ward. Despite some issues with the internet connection they managed to pull off a very informative and enjoyable presentation and I think the content was pretty spot on for a Java crowd. Overall the session read more
I arrived about an hour late at JavaPolis thanks to some impressive traffic jam on the way to Antwerp but am glad I did manage to catch most of Sang Shin’s “Introduction to AJAX“. He discussed several frameworks and did a demo for each — from Dojo through jMaki and DWR (Direct Web Remoting) to read more
Looks like I’ve got another conference marathon coming up this week. I’m really excited I get to go to JavaPolis thanks to Christoph Rooms. Last year was amazing and am looking forward to catching some sessions on Adobe technology from a Java perspective. Truth be told I’m a real noob when it comes to Java read more
I just had an interesting discussion on Twitter with some friends about the French speaking Flash community in Belgium and the apparent lack of them at our local Adobe User Group events. That’s actually a very good point and never really understood why that is the case or if we’re simply not reaching them. They read more
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