Category Archives: Events

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 »

Looking back at Flex@Beach

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 »

Why you should attend Flash and the City

There’s another new conference coming this year and thats always exciting, but Flash and the City promises to be different. Not only is this the first major Flash conference in NYC in quite a while, its going to be an amazing opportunity to network and meet interesting people. Why so? Well rather than just sit read more »

SQLite in Adobe AIR – Adobe DevSummit Chennai

My second talk at the Adobe DevSummit Chennai was a 15 minute lightning talk on using SQLite in Adobe AIR. This is probably the fastest I’ve ever covered the topic but should still give you a good idea of what local database functionality is available when developing AIR applications.

RIA meets Desktop – Adobe DevSummit Chennai

Earlier this week I headed to the Adobe DevSummit event in Chennai and was pleasantly surprised of how vibrant the community here is. No less than 600 people turned up and the rooms were absolutely packed. We had some great talks and hands-on sessions by the Indian Adobe evangelists and various people from the community read more »

Speaking at the Adobe DevSummit Chennai & Hyderabad

I’m almost at the end of my first month in India and have met some fantastic people both in Bangalore and here in Pondicherry. Next week Adobe is holding a DevSummit in Chennai and the week after in Hyderabad. I’m very excited to be invited over to talk about one of my favorite Flash Platform read more »

TEDIndia – summary of day 1

Today was day 1 of the main TEDIndia event. I’ve been at the wonderful Infosys Mysore campus since Monday and have met some truly extraordinary people. I couldn’t help but write a quick summary of todays sessions and what inspired me most. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson Usha Uthup, legendary Indian pop singer, opened read more »

Looking at the next few months

The last two months have been hectic to say the least attending and speaking at conferences in Singapore, Brighton and Los Angeles and most recently giving some workshops in London. I’m looking forward to settling down in India to start a new chapter and get Project Cocoon off the ground. Before that though, one more read more »

Using Flash to compile to iPhone applications

Definitely one of the biggest announcements at todays Adobe MAX keynote was the ability to compile Flash applications to native iPhone ARM binaries. Just to be clear, this doesn’t mean Flash Player runs on the iPhone or SWF files get interpreted at runtime. I’m happy to see Adobe push things forward for mobile and not read more »

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