Category Archives: Flash Lite

The Evolution of the Flash Platform

I did a talk last night on “The Evolution of the Flash Platform” at Skills Matter as part of the London Web Week. Had a nice group of people turn up from various backgrounds and all seemed very interested in seeing the direction Flash is heading in.   Tried to cover as much ground as read more »

Adobe announces the Open Screen Project

Some exciting news today with Adobe partnering up with companies across the board like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, NTT DoCoMo, ARM, Intel, NBC, MTV, BBC, etc. for an initiative they call the Open Screen Project. What the Open Screen Project attempts to address is getting a consistent runtime not just on the desktop but across to read more »

Thoughts on the Flash Mobile Platform

There’s been a lot of interesting developments with regards to Flash and mobile recently and thought it deserved a post and my ‘analysis’.

ActionScript 3.0 / ECMAScript 4 for devices

Some more good news coming from Adobe with them contributing a new virtual machine to the open source Tamarin project. This new VM – internally called QVM – known to the outside world as Tamarin-Tracing essentially brings the power of AVM2 (ActionScript 3.0/ECMAScript 4) to mobile devices. It wouldn’t be a stretch of the imagination read more »

Adobe MAX Barcelona – session reviews

I unfortunately didn’t have the chance to do detailed reviews for each of the sessions I attended at MAX Barcelona (15 minute breaks between sessions just isn’t enough) but here is a list of the sessions I attended and a mini-review for each. The Google Analytics Reporting Suite – Nico Lierman, Wim Vanhenden Flash Lite read more »

Mobile Guide for Adobe MAX Barcelona

I heard via Marco Casario that a Flash Lite 1.1 guide for the Adobe MAX Barcelona conference has been released by Paul Lamonby and just gave it a test run on my Nokia N95.              Its done really well — you can easily browse through the different days and sessions are sorted by time. If read more »

Flashforward Boston schedule

With Flashforward2007 Boston just over a week away I thought I’d post what sessions I’m planning to attend. The speaker lineup is just fantastic, can’t wait for the conference to kick off! My own session will be “OOP for the Noob”, an introduction to object-oriented programming in ActionScript 3.0. I’ve got a great slot assigned, read more »

Getting into Flash Lite 2.1

Finally got myself a new phone and am absolutely loving the Nokia N70 — its quite a change from my old Sony Ericsson K300i, not in the least because it supports Flash Lite 2.1 of course ;) I’m generally more of a Sony Ericsson enthousiast but their walkman series wasn’t exactly what I needed, next read more »

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