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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Making the case for HTML5 support in the Flash Player
April 22, 2010 – 1:24 pm
Earlier this week I got inspired seeing this presentation on HTML5. I’m a strong advocate of moving towards this standard and with browsers increasingly supporting it, makes it very attractive to start to learn and implement where possible. Contrary to what I’m seeing various tech blogs claim, HTML5 is in my opinion not a replacement read more
Speaking at Flash Israel
April 15, 2010 – 1:56 am
I’m very excited to have been invited to speak at Flash Israel in Tel Aviv later this month. The event is organized by the Flash and Flex Israel User Group and supported by a number of generous sponsors. It looks like a great lineup of speakers including Mihai Corlan of Adobe, Hillel Coren and Almog read more
Adobe User Group Belgium – CS5 launch event
April 14, 2010 – 1:33 am
It was the first time I’ve made it out to an Adobe User Group Belgium meeting since their relaunch and have to say I was very impressed. We had a fantastic venue in Antwerp and several speakers from Adobe to show off the latest features in Creative Suite 5 that was just shown to the read more
Flash and the City schedule
April 9, 2010 – 2:42 pm
The first edition of the Flash and the City conference is 34 days away and thought I’d post a list of sessions I’m planning to attend. Friday, May 14th Adobe Keynote Ryan Stewart – Geolocation and Mapping with the Flash Platform Ben Stucki – Reflex: The Future of Rich Internet Applications Jeff Tapper – Flex read more
Apple versus developers – this time it’s personal
April 9, 2010 – 12:06 am
3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly read more
Flash across screens and devices
April 4, 2010 – 9:19 am
Exciting times if you’re working with Flash Platform technologies, the idea of deploying the same codebase to multiple screens is really taking shape and I for one couldn’t be happier. AIR already allowed us to go cross platform with desktop apps (Windows, Mac and Linux), obviously the Flash Player allows the same across browsers and read more
CFUG Belgium launch event
April 2, 2010 – 2:45 pm
Yesterday evening was the launch event of the ColdFusion User Group Belgium, a community initiative led by Steven Peeters and Cyril Hanquez, at the Adobe offices in Brussels. I did not know what to expect since ColdFusion users in Belgium were never very outspoken about their favorite technology and it almost seemed like interest was read more