Peter Elst

Adobe MAX Awards 2008 - Milan

Peter — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:45:35 +0000

Congratulations to Thomas Joos and Boulevart for winning in the develop category of the European Adobe MAX awards. There was some serious competition but they pulled it off with their “Rock Werchter Mobile Guide” Flash Lite mobile application, ported to the iPhone. In case you weren’t there, here’s a recording of the develop section of the [...]

Adobe MAX 2008 Europe Schedule

Peter — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:46:56 +0000

Adobe MAX Europe is just a few days away and despite me regularly complaining about some of the conference’s miscomings (you know I still love you guys) I’m really very excited about what we’ll be seeing there! I deliberately didn’t read too much coverage of the US edition but did tweak my session schedule earlier today [...]

Adobe MAX Milan Flash Lite Game

Peter — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:40:43 +0000

Thomas “the Flash Lite wiz” Joos and the guys at Boulevart created a great little game for MAX Milan. Be sure to check it out and you might even win some really cool prizes! More information here: http://labs.boulevart.be/index.php/max-milan-shooter/ addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peterelst.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F11%2F20%2Fadobe-max-milan-flash-lite-game%2F'; addthis_title = 'Adobe+MAX+Milan+Flash+Lite+Game'; addthis_pub = [...]

Thank You America!

Peter — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:52:14 +0000

Thanks to all who voted, my faith in the US is restored after 8 years of failed politics — congratulations President Obama! I watched the election results come in on Twitter and arrived just in time at an internet cafe here in South India to see John McCain give his concession speech and Barack Obama [...]

Core ActionScript course goes Denmark

Peter — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:38:51 +0000

Hej Danmark, vi ses snart! When planning my schedule for 2009 got some good news from Skills Matter, my training partner in the UK, we’ll be taking the “Core ActionScript: Object-Oriented ActionScript in Practice” course to Århus, Denmark. If you’re not already familiar with this particular course, its a two-day introduction to Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0 with a [...]

Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty

Peter — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:01:00 +0000

“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life” - Nelson Mandela Today is Blog Action Day — thousands of bloggers will unite to discuss a single issue - poverty. We aim to raise awareness, [...]

SWFPack beta released

Peter — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:33:55 +0000

I was happy to hear the Kuneri SWFPack beta has been released to the public today, a web-based tool that allows you to very easily package up Flash Lite content to a SIS (NFL, CAB and DRM support is planned). All basic Flash Lite packaging features are free of charge, they do plan on adding some [...]

ActionScriptHero.org

Peter — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:39:19 +0000

Some of you might already be familiar with a new site called ActionScriptHero.org, set up by Pablo Parrado. The idea behind this community portal is to explore the social aspect of the Flash community, find out what inspires people and how they see the Flash Platform evolving. I’ve already been helping Pablo out by doing some [...]

The Future of Programming Languages

Peter — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:16:56 +0000

I just found this great video on the future of programming languages by Anders Hejlsberg, who was the lead architect of the C# programming language. Its definitely an interesting presentation to watch to get a perspective on where things are heading. (via Sean “the Flex Guy” Moore) addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peterelst.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F10%2F07%2Fthe-future-of-programming-languages%2F'; [...]

Please do me a favor…

Peter — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:31:12 +0000

I don’t generally blog politics and this is going to be the one and only time I’ll bring up this years US Presidential election. While the campaign so far has arguably resulted in some of the best political satire out there, the world is facing some serious challenges and whether we like it or not, [...]