Category Archives: Flash

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Flex summit – updates on the open source strategy and runtimes

 “Challenges that bring great opportunities” is how I’d summarize what I’ve seen of the Flex summit so far. Adobe has invited some key Flex community members and enterprise partners to discuss the open source strategy around Flex and shed light on its commitment to the Flash Platform runtimes. Here is some of the more interesting read more »

gotoAndSki(“Switzerland”) 2012 – Simple P2P for the common mortal

I’ve been meaning to attend gotoAndSki for several years now, but it never seemed to work out – until now. If you don’t know about this unique event you should definitely check it out! In summer it takes place in Norway, in winter in Switzerland. This coming January 2012 I’ll join a fantastic lineup of read more »

The Flash Platform saga… one week later

[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 »

Et tu, Adobe? Flash Player homicide

I’m disgusted at Adobe today. It has now well and truly become tradition to have the post-MAX November layoffs. This year reportedly 750 employees got dismissed across North America and Europe (worse than the previous record after MAX Milan 2008). I wish them all the very best. If you start to see a recurring theme read more »

What have I been doing lately?

I realize I haven’t been blogging a lot about what I’ve been up to in the last few months so thought I’d better get a post out and share some of those things with you. Cocoon P2P The open source Cocoon P2P library has been released and got Dirk Eismann on board as a contributor read more »

BlackBerry PlayBook – a promising development platform

Up until recently I wouldn’t have bet on BlackBerry becoming one of the most developer friendly and innovative platforms around, but recent announcements around their upcoming PlayBook tablet are very promising indeed. It remains to be seen how things will work out but – based on the hardware specs and apparent renewed effort in terms 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 »

Big boys and their litl toys

There is a bit of a change of plan – rather than give an overview talk on open source projects in the community – I’ll be doing my session at Flash on the Beach on Flash Player 10.1 development and the litl webbook. Ever since Flash and the City earlier this year I’ve been playing 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 »

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 by Adobe so its ideal for bloggers to use. You read more »

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