Yesterday, myself and two colleagues from Project Cocoon made it out to Chennai for Flex@Beach. I did not really know what to expect from the event but was happily surprised about the turnout and excitement around Flex and Flash Platform technology in general. There was a lot of focus on frameworks and architecture as well read more
Today one of Adobe’s community programs previously known as “Adobe Community Experts” got rebranded to “Adobe Community Professionals“. This was long needed to avoid naming conflicts with other people using the ACE acronym such as the “Adobe Certified Experts“. I’m also glad to report I’ve been renewed for another term in this program. If you read more
With just a few days left in 2009, I wanted to post some moments this year that stuck with me: Discussion about Fx prefix versus namespaces in Flex 4 Flex Builder to get renamed to Flash Builder Fantastic first edition of Flash at the Lake in Zurich, Switzerland Carlos Ulloa speaks at TEDGlobal Summer of read more
I was very happy to be invited to speak again at this second edition of The ActionScript Conference in Singapore. This year they even made it a two day event at an amazing venue overlooking Marina Bay. I have some video recorded that I’ll upload soon. Shunjie and the rest of the team do an read more
I just wrapped up a fascinating 6 months as a lecturer to first year “Digital Design and Media” students at the Technical University College of West-Flanders. If there’s something I’ve recognized from my time there is that passion and commitment are determining factors for being successful in what you do. There certainly was no lack read more
After some discussions earlier this week, it became apparent not everyone is aware of Adobe’s public bug base where you can have your voice heard and vote up bugs important to you. I thought it might be interesting to highlight the current top 5 highest voted open feature requests across the various projects. FB-19053 – read more
Addicted to Twitter or Facebook? The Social Media Addicts Association can help you. SMAA is run by reformed social media addicts who all had the courage to stand up and admit to their problem. Will you stop poking people you haven’t seen since college, and join us? With me closing in on 8000 tweets, reaching read more
This last week or two we’ve seen a lot of heated debate around the future of ActionScript and the Flash Player. Its nice to see this kind of excitement and passion for the technology — yet I can’t help but feel we’re experiencing a form of ‘continental drift’ here. I’ve seen ActionScript grow up from read more
I was happy to see this video by Dave McAllister, Open Standards Evangelist at Adobe, talking about Adobe’s take on open initiatives and how that involves community. There are some common misconceptions about Adobe being very concerned with keeping their core technologies closed and proprietary while, more so than many other leading technology companies, the opposite read more
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