[update] There is now some more solid information on the future direction of Flex available here. We’re a week after Adobe’s shocking announcements around its future vision of the Flash Platform – time to get some perspective and see what exactly has happened. Unfortunately on a number of topics we’re no closer to having read more
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Looking back on Adobe MAX 2011
This was my fifth year attending Adobe MAX, always a great event to catch up on the latest developments when it comes to web and creative tooling. Its also an opportunity to see many friends, fellow enthusiasts in the community who we usually only get to talk to over email or social networks.
Flashback to 2010
Last week of the year 2010, no better time to look back at what happened this year in the world of Flash and related technologies and my own community involvement. The year in review February – Adobe Photoshop 20th anniversary April 8th – Apple’s section 3.3.1 bans cross-compiled apps for iOS April 30th – read more
Adobe MAX 2010 Schedule
This years Adobe MAX conference is fast approaching, end of next week myself and Nathalie Wormser of the Project Cocoon team will be traveling to Los Angeles. Its been a long time since I’ve been this excited about the topic I’ll be talking about. If you haven’t tried P2P with Flash Player 10.1 yet, this read more
Flash Platform Geeks… coming soon
Embrace your inner geek! I’m happy to announce together with Luca Mezzalira we’re starting a new community initiative called “Flash Platform Geeks“. In the next few weeks and at upcoming conferences you’ll learn a lot more about what we’re up to and how you can get involved. In the meanwhile why don’t you follow our read more
Adobe Flash Platform Summit coming soon
I was happy to hear Adobe is organizing a huge two day conference in Bangalore, India on August 25th and 26th. The Adobe Flash Platform Summit will no doubt be the place to be if you want to learn about their latest technologies and network with other industry professionals. The first day will cover mostly read more
Speaking at Flash Israel
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
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
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
CFUG Belgium launch event
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