I came across this great video by Paul Robertson, Senior ActionScript Developer/Writer at Adobe, about local database optimization with Adobe AIR. There’s some really useful information in his presentation so definitely worth watching!
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
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
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
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 read more
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. I’ll be doing a new presentation on using SQLite in Adobe AIR hopefully read 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: Live video stream now using BitGravity instead of Stickam Double-click video to toggle between full screen and normal size Right-click video to set it as read more
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)
Giacomo ‘Peldi’ Guilizzoni – photo © Matt Snow
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 read more
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