Aral Balkan blogged about what he called an epic FAIL of removing the Fx prefix from Gumbo. This I admit came as a bit of a surprise to me as it has been widely discussed in the community for some time and strong consensus built around using namespaces. The decision was then made by Adobe read more
Serge Jespers and Enrique Duvos did this years keynote at 2M09 and it was great fun as usual. Not in the least because it was Serge’s birthday and one particular world exclusive preview of an AIR app resulted in some uncontrollable laughter. I’ll let you see for yourself.
Lee Brimelow has a little teaser up of an interview he did with Dave August, senior developer at OOOii (a company previously known as BlackBox Digital) who worked on the graphics and animations you can see in the latest Star Trek movie. They actually used Flash Platform products like AIR and their own ActionScript 3.0 read more
I just finished my “Creative Programming in ActionScript 3.0″ session at day 1 of Multi-Mania 2009. Really enjoyed doing this new presentation though from the looks of it seemed I had more of a designer audience — so might have been a little code heavy. As promised here are my slides, along with the example read more
Something had to be done about confusing Flash Platform product names and if you paid close attention you could see this one coming for a while now. From the upcoming release onwards Flex Builder will be known as Flash Builder. I initially had some reservations about this but it does go a long way in read more
If you live in Belgium chances are you will have heard about Mobile Vikings, a new MVNO on the market — one of their main objectives is to offer free mobile internet as part of their prepaid offer. Now that might not sound very impressive but in Belgium mobile data tariffs are through the roof. read more
Multi-Mania is Europe’s biggest free multimedia event — yes, that’s right completely free of charge! I’ve been taking part in the event since 2004 and its only been getting bigger and better each year. This year its in fact two days of multimedia goodness – May 18-19th in Kortrijk, Belgium. The speaker lineup is fantastic read more
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