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:
You can find my slides below, and the demo files are available for download here. Enjoy!
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:
These are some really good in depth presentations that I can highly recommend you check out!
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 framework to accomplish this which must have been a great project to work on.
For a moment it looked as though I was going to miss out on this years FFK in Cologne — the largest German speaking conference covering web products and technologies organized by Marc Thiele and Sascha Wolter of Flashforum.de. This is already their 9th edition and not surprisingly it has completely sold out!
At the last minute I managed to secure a spot (thanks to Marc) in the “Discover the third dimension” workshop on Away3D that Jens Brynildsen is teaching on Monday. I’ve already experimented with Papervision3D quite a bit but was eager to look into what Away3D has to offer so this is the perfect opportunity.
I’ll be sure to blog about to workshop and perhaps share some experiments after I’ve familiarized myself with the code.
Ganz toll! 
Flash at the Lake is a two day conference organized by the SFUG (Switzerland Flash User Group) taking place at the Rote Fabrik in Zurich, right by the lake side.
Confirmed speakers include: Aral Balkan, Mario Klingemann, James Ward and many more.
It took me quite a while to get this done but the TWiT Live Desktop 2.0 update is finally available!
Here’s a little summary of whats new in this version:
TWiT interactive includes the IRC channel, TWiT Army, the Twitter and FriendFeed pages and the production schedule. In the settings tab you are able to set your local timezone, save your username for the IRC chat as well as set the application to launch at startup.
I’m particularly pleased with this update and hope you will too as soon as its been made available. Really appreciated all the feedback I got over the last few months so please keep it coming!
For those wondering since this is an AIR application it will run cross-platform on PC, Mac and Linux. You can install the application through the install badge above or downloading the file directly (in which case you will need to have the AIR runtime installed). Enjoy!
What do you get when you put Stefan Richter, Mike Jones, Dave Williamson, James Whittaker, Bola Roibi and Andrew Shorten in the same room?
An interesting discussion on the power of the Flash community and some of the new challenges the Flash Platform faces, that’s what!
(via Serge Jespers)
AIR, Flash, Flash Lite, Flex, Video
Giacomo ‘Peldi’ Guilizzoni – photo © Matt SnowI recently had the opportunity to talk to Giacomo ‘Peldi’ Guilizzoni — ex-Macromedia/Adobe software engineer — about his new company Balsamiq and the hugely popular Balsamiq Mockups application.
I’ve started using Balsamiq Mockups on a number of projects myself and its proven to be a very useful application, definitely worth checking out!
First off, let me thank you Peter for the opportunity to answer your questions. I have been following your blog for years! 
I think the idea for Balsamiq Mockups took shape over the years. As a developer, I had to write many feature specifications, and the more I wrote, the more I noticed that the process we followed had many gaps in it which could be improved. For instance, we would always design a feature on a dry-erase whiteboard first. While this had just the right amount of low-fidelity to encourage discussion and iteration, it was also a bit painful: first you had to go around the office stealing markers that worked, then if you needed to stretch a rectangle you had to erase an edge and redraw it further out, and sometimes the end result was so messy that you’d come back to a whiteboard the next day and were unable understand what the heck that mess of lines and squiggles really meant.
I’m happy to announce a new set of intensive one-day courses on Flex, ActionScript and AIR that I’ll soon start delivering at Skills Matter in London. During that day you’ll get a thorough overview of the technology and some good hands-on experience building various real world examples.
Here are the next few teach dates you can register for:
30-03-09 Introduction to Adobe Flex
06-04-09 Adobe Flex for Flash Developers
14-04-09 Beginning Adobe AIR
11-05-09 Introduction to Adobe Flex
More information here: http://skillsmatter.com/go/flex-flash
If you’ve got any questions about these courses, feel free to get in touch!
There’s quite a bit of interesting info in this video recording on Adobe’s Rich Internet Applications Roadmap. Particularly note the focus areas for 2009 with Flash Player “Argo” and “Stratos”, the plans for mobile and devices and ideas for AIR extensibility.
AIR, Flash, Flash Lite, Flex, Video
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