First prize: Ronny
Second prize: Kristof
Third prize: Nate Chatellier
| Congratz Petah! |
Tribute to Peter |
Dawg |
All runners-up will be getting a ticket to the <head> conference, thanks to everyone who participated and our generous sponsors!
I will soon be contacting the winners to get the prizes sorted.
Apologies to my international reader base for not blogging in English, after reading the latest edition of the Dutch “inside digital media” magazine on Flash versus Silverlight I felt compelled to clear up some misconceptions.
[update] the English translation is now available in the comments
Ik kreeg vandaag “inside digital media” in de bus, en naast een interessante bijdrage van Serge Jespers over online TV, kon ik uiteraard niet over de headline “Is de dood van Flash nabij? Flash vs Silverlight 2.0″ kijken, een artikel van Luc Jacobs, Managing Director bij GIALCO.
Op zich is dit uiteraard een leuk onderwerp om wat dieper op in te gaan, het is een vraag waar veel mensen mee bezig zijn. Dit maakt het dan ook des te noodzakelijker om informatie correct weer te geven en jammer genoeg lijkt me dat hier niet het geval.
With just a couple more days to go before Flash on the Beach 2008 kicks off, its time for the traditional “blogging of the schedule”.
These are the sessions I’m planning to attend, another great lineup this year!
Monday, September 29th
Richard Galvan - Keynote
Marco Casario - Mash-up widgets with Adobe AIR
Branden Hall - Brilliant Ideas that I’ve Blatantly Stolen
Mark Anders - A Preview of Flex 4 and “Thermo”
Tink - Flex Effects: Transitions as Design Elements
Erik Natzke - Beyond the Knowledge: The Art of Play
James Paterson - Modulating a Lot
Tuesday, September 30th
Mike Downey - The business side of AIR: how to sell your clients on AIR apps
Niqui Merret - Accessibility - beyond the basics
Grant Skinner - Things Every ActionScript Developer Should Know
Lee Brimelow - Platform Jiu-Jitsu
Nando Costa - Motion Graphics, one frame at a time.
Robert Hodgin - The Best 8 to 12 Hours of my Life.
Wednesday, October 1st
Ben Stucki - Advanced Flexing for Flash Developers
Seb Lee-Delisle - Papervision3D Simplified
Andre Michelle - Adobe made some noise!
Koen de Weggheleire - Play With Pixels, bitmap manipulation with AS3
Paul Betlem - The Ying and Yang of Flash
Jonathan Harris - The Art of Surveillance and Self-Exposure
With all the talk about the huge difference in geographical pricing for Adobe’s products I wanted to do a quick comparison between what those in the US and those in Europe (or at least Belgium for as far as I can check) pay for some of the different suites.
Master Collection CS4
Full price US: 2499 USD
Full price Europe: 2799 Euro
Master Collection CS4 is 1.6 times as expensive for European customers.
If you haven’t read up on today’s Adobe Creative Suite 4 announcement yet and still want to watch the live stream or attend a user group meeting, you might not want to read on unless you like spoilers. This is my list of favorite new features for the products in the suite I am most interested in.
Flash CS4
■ Timeline model reworked
■ Motion editor (similar to After Effects)
■ Inverse Kinematics (aka bones for shapes, movie clips)
■ New text engine (including right-to-left support)
■ 3D rotation tools (2D objects in 3D space)
Dreamweaver CS4
■ Live view (webkit rendered interactive view of your page)
■ Live code (watch code changes in realtime for AJAX based pages)
■ Code hinting for JavaScript and AJAX libraries
■ Subversion support
Photoshop CS4
■ Rotate canvas
■ Masks panel (easily create masks and tweak settings)
■ Extended depth of field (stack and combine images with a different focus)
■ Content-Aware Scaling (see this video)
Excited all round for the features in this new release, the one major disappointment is seeing international customers getting screwed again with the huge difference in geographical pricing.
For more information on CS4 and lots of video tutorials, be sure to check out the new and improved Adobe TV.
With Adobe Creative Suite 4 getting officially announced tomorrow, I thought it was worth looking back at some video I shot during the sneak peek session at MAX Chicago last year where they first started showing features of the next version of the Flash authoring environment.
Despite some leaked information about CS4 on AppleInsider calling it a “minor update”, I for one am very impressed with what the various product teams have been working on.
I’ll let you judge for yourself, we’ll know more tomorrow on exactly what features made and did not make it in.
What can I say? I’ve really been overwhelmed by the great video comments you guys submitted. Thanks to everyone who took part, love what you did!
I’m now opening it up for my blog readers to vote on the video they like best and help decide the winners of our great prizes (including an FDT 3.1 Enterprise edition, two Flex Builder 3 licenses and tickets to the <head> conference).
You can see all video comments below and cast your vote until Friday, September 26th.
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Congrats! |
Congratz Petah! |
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International Flash |
5th blogging birthday |
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Dawg |
Tribute to Peter |
What video do you like best?
Total Voters: 69
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[update] Thanks to Powerflasher we now also have a license for FDT 3.1 Enterprise edition for one lucky winner!
I’m happy to say that thanks to the friendly folks at Adobe I’ve now got two licenses of Flex Builder 3 Professional to give away!
So, don’t hesitate - record a video comment, right now you’ve still got a 100% chance of winning. To get things kick started the first person to leave a video message will get a ticket to the <head> conference!
The prize lineup now looks as follows, with some more prizes being sorted out for the runners up.
First prize
- Flex Builder 3 Professional (Mac or PC)
or FDT 3.1 Enterprise edition
- Lynda.com one-year online training library pass
- <head> conference ticket
Second prize
- Flex Builder 3 Professional (Mac or PC)
or FDT 3.1 Enterprise edition
- <head> conference ticket
Third prize
- <head> conference ticket
Video messages don’t necessarily need to be in English, feel free to record something in your own language if you prefer. Just be creative and have fun!
I never thought I’d keep anything up for this long but today is the 5th anniversary of this blog!
That comes to 383 posts (or an average of about 1.4 posts a week), 1482 comments/trackbacks and some 65.188 pieces of spam. Back in 1994 I had about 360 hits a month whereas now its grown to an average of 15.000.
To mark this occassion I figured I’d do a little giveaway, prizes include:
- 2 5 tickets for the <head> global web conference (donated by Aral Balkan)
- 1 one year pass to the Lynda.com Online Training Library® (donated by Lynda.com)
Still talking to some other companies, more to come!
To participate, all you have to leave is a video comment on this post using the new Seesmic video comment feature I’ve recently installed.
Anything goes, feel free to talk about what you like about this blog, where there’s room for improvement, heck you can even sing a song or tell a joke. Bonus points for creativity!
Next week, September 21st I’ll post a short list of my favorite video comments and will put up a poll so the community can vote on the winners. The winners will then be announced on Friday September 26th!
Good luck and have fun!
If you’ve been following Adobe’s announcements recently you will have heard that September 23th is going to be a pretty special day. Now it just happens that our local Adobe User Group Belgium has an event planned that day.
This is no doubt going to be a great meet up with some interesting sessions and surprises lined up!
If you want to take part and join us in Ghent make sure to register yourself. We think this will be one of our biggest events to date and will likely fill up very soon.
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