I returned yesterday from an amazing four days in Zurich, Switzerland where I spoke at the first edition of “Flash at the Lake“. Its always difficult to know what to expect from a first time event, but I really think the organizers did an outstanding job. One thing I found particularly interesting is having workshops read more
Earlier today at the Flash at the Lake conference here in Zurich, Switzerland I presented my “Introduction to SQLite in Adobe AIR” session. I’ve done this one a couple of times before but have updated it to include more information on: Database encryption Synchronization strategies Using Data Access Objects SQLite wrapper classes You can read more
This morning Adobe announced that the HTC Hero phone will be the first Android based phone to support Flash. Adrian Ludwig did a nice video showing off some of the features. Its important to note that, while it is not explicitly said, this is in fact Flash Lite 3.1 running on the phone not read more
Sometimes I really wish I worked over in San Francisco — now and again Adobe does these great meet ups, like recently happened with FlashCamp. They’ve put the video of the presentations online including a keynote by CTO Kevin Lynch and the following topics: Introduction to Flash Catalyst What’s New in Flex 4 Skinning Components read more
Last Wednesday we had the Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, ColdFusion 9 and Flash Catalyst pre-release event at the Adobe User Group Belgium in Ghent. Speakers were Serge Jespers, Cyril Hanquez and Maarten Cox. I managed to record most of Cyril’s talk on ColdFusion 9 and Bolt, which was targeted mainly to non-ColdFusion developers. Think read more
It seems Google did an update to how it indexes Flash content yesterday. Some of you might have already heard about the headless Flash Player aka “Ichabod” that Google and Yahoo got from Adobe — it seems it is now being put to better use. Google has been indexing Flash content for years, basically extracting read more
I’m excited to have gotten invited again to give a talk at this years Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles, October 4-7th. The session is called “Community Matters” and is not the usual technical talk I do but targeted at a more general audience. This is the official session description: “Explore the broad landscape of read more
[update] I got some unite services working now from any browser, must have been a glitch earlier — feel free to leave a comment on my fridge :) Opera announced that they would “reinvent the Web” today — having spent some time going through what was announced I’m not sure they managed to reinvent a read more
“Is QuickTime X The Missing Link For Flash On The iPhone?” http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/15/the-missing-link-for-flash-on-the-iphone/ The author suggests that QuickTime X supporting FLV playback is somehow an indication that the Flash Player will come to the iPhone. While I’m sure that is what many of us would like to see happen it is one of the most ridiculous read more
This is a post for my Dutch speaking readers about the new and improved FlashFocus.nl community site. Wat betreft nederlandstalige Flash community websites is er weinig twijfel dat FlashFocus.nl aan de absolute top staat. In 2003 was Flashtival, een evenement van FlashFocus, trouwens een van de allereerste conferenties waar ik een lezing gaf. Of read more
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