Flash Archive

  • Cool Stuff I Didn't Make

    Cool Stuff I Didn’t Make

    Flash on the Beach is always one of the absolute conference highlights of the year, and believe it or not its only 5 weeks away — can’t wait to be in Brighton again! This year I’ll be talking about cool stuff I didn’t make, and...

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    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...

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    Flash Media Playback – WordPress plugin

    Last night I started writing a plugin to easily embed the Flash Media Playback video component on WordPress blogs and its now ready for you all to use! Flash Media Playback is a free media player based on the Open Source Media Framework and hosted...

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  • Adobe Flash Platform Summit

    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...

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  • HTML 5 for the Flash Player

    Making the case for HTML5 support in the Flash Player

    Earlier this week I got inspired seeing this presentation on HTML5. I’m a strong advocate of moving towards this standard and with browsers increasingly supporting it, makes it very attractive to start to learn and implement where possible. Contrary to what I’m seeing various tech...

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  • Flash Player 10.1 performance on mobile

    Flash Player 10.1 performance on mobile

    Recently James Ward, Technical Evangelist at Adobe, did a video showing performance of Flex running on the Google Nexus One in Flash Player 10.1. Consider that myth about Flash Player performance not being up to scratch for use on a certain mobile device well and...

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  • Trying out the iPad browsing experience

    Trying out the iPad browsing experience

    I did a little experiment this morning, disabling plug-ins in my browser aka “the iPad experience”. See where things start to break down? The Apple iPad web browsing experience, not quite what you expect. Yes, there are native apps for a number of these sites...

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  • Apple’s idea of the best web browsing experience

    Apple’s idea of the best web browsing experience

    Just hours after the product got announced, a lot has already been said and written about the Apple iPad and I don’t particularly feel I have a lot to add except for that “one more thing”. I’ve been working almost exclusively on Mac for about...

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  • The black box that is the Flash Player

    The black box that is the Flash Player

    This morning I read an interesting blog post by John Dowdell highlighting some things that bothered me in the last week or so (and talked about on twitter). We’ve been seeing some sensationalist headlines on tech blogs like “Open Source JavaScript to Replace Flash?” without...

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  • The future of the Flash Player

    The future of the Flash Player

    I think many will agree that 2010 is going to be the year of mobile and devices. With Android becoming a serious contender and Apple reportedly coming out with some innovative new hardware its no surprise to me that there’s a lot of buzz around...

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