After hanging out for dinner with a bunch of talented friends and colleagues (thanks Boulevart!) I called it an early night which unfortunately meant I missed out on the Phlash5 performance. Playing with Pixels Day two started out for me with Koen De Weggheleire‘s talk. The party the night before didn’t seem to have caused read more
For me FITC Amsterdam started on Sunday, attending the Papervision3D workshop presented by most of the core team. It was really nice to get an overview of what is available in the Papervision 2.0 “Great White” release. Although it probably wasn’t the most in depth technical run through of the framework the information we got read more
I just finished my presentation at FITC Amsterdam, absolutely loved talking about Adobe AIR despite having some unfortunate beamer problems for the first 15 or so minutes of my talk — had some time to improvise and do Q&A with the audience. The crowd seemed to be very ‘into’ AIR and interested to hear about read more
I’ve been working on some experiments using video and AIR and stumbled across Abdul Qabiz’s work on constructing the FLV download link for YouTube videos. Its actually surprisingly easy to get hold of the FLV asset once you capture the correct query string arguments. Based on Abdul’s code I wrote an AS3 class that goes read more
There were lots of rumors about the on AIR tour coming to Europe but it was Andrew Shorten who finally confirmed the news during the keynote at Flash on the Beach last November. No more waiting, the new site is now up and running and all information about the different venues available — onair.adobe.com. 12 read more
I traveled to London yesterday to do an “In-the-Brain” session on ActionScript 3.0 with the wonderful people at SkillsMatter. Had a nice group of enthusiastic people turn up, gave away a few copies of my “Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0” book and went out to the pub afterwards. This session was a little teaser for the “Core read more
There’s been a lot of interesting developments with regards to Flash and mobile recently and thought it deserved a post and my ‘analysis’.
Aral got interviewed on Singularity while attending the LIFT08 conference in Geneva last week. Its great to see such excitement around the project and it gets you to appreciate the potential of an online conference of this caliber. Of course it was also nice to hear a plug for our very own Multi-Mania, one of read more
If you’ve played around with AIR and are thinking about releasing some applications into the wild, you’ll want to make sure you have something in place to push updates to your users when you’ve got a new version available. The user can download a new version of your .air file, double-click the file and the read more
Trust Aral Balkan to come up with some great projects to support the community — Singularity a three-day online conference is coming later this year and Pistach.io is going into beta soon. Pistach.io is an ad network that targets a specific topical pack of influential websites and blogs. As a company you’ll have the unique read more
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