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Making the case for ActionScript
August 9, 2009 – 3:01 pm
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
FlashCamp San Francisco video
June 22, 2009 – 12:59 am
Sometimes I really wish I worked over in San Francisco — now and again Adobe does these great meet ups, like recently happened with FlashCamp. They’ve put the video of the presentations online including a keynote by CTO Kevin Lynch and the following topics: Introduction to Flash Catalyst What’s New in Flex 4 Skinning Components read more
Google updates Flash content indexing
June 19, 2009 – 8:25 pm
It seems Google did an update to how it indexes Flash content yesterday. Some of you might have already heard about the headless Flash Player aka “Ichabod” that Google and Yahoo got from Adobe — it seems it is now being put to better use. Google has been indexing Flash content for years, basically extracting read more
Creative Programming in ActionScript 3.0
May 18, 2009 – 1:20 pm
I just finished my “Creative Programming in ActionScript 3.0″ session at day 1 of Multi-Mania 2009. Really enjoyed doing this new presentation though from the looks of it seemed I had more of a designer audience — so might have been a little code heavy. As promised here are my slides, along with the example read more
Flex Builder gets rebranded to Flash Builder
May 17, 2009 – 1:31 am
Something had to be done about confusing Flash Platform product names and if you paid close attention you could see this one coming for a while now. From the upcoming release onwards Flex Builder will be known as Flash Builder. I initially had some reservations about this but it does go a long way in read more
Heading to FFK09 – Cologne
April 23, 2009 – 5:04 pm
For a moment it looked as though I was going to miss out on this years FFK in Cologne — the largest German speaking conference covering web products and technologies organized by Marc Thiele and Sascha Wolter of Flashforum.de. This is already their 9th edition and not surprisingly it has completely sold out! At the read more
Flash at the Lake – Zurich, Switzerland
April 21, 2009 – 1:10 pm
Flash at the Lake is a two day conference organized by the SFUG (Switzerland Flash User Group) taking place at the Rote Fabrik in Zurich, right by the lake side. Confirmed speakers include: Aral Balkan, Mario Klingemann, James Ward and many more. I’ll be doing a new presentation on using SQLite in Adobe AIR hopefully read more
Flash Platform Round Table Discussion
April 1, 2009 – 2:47 pm
What do you get when you put Stefan Richter, Mike Jones, Dave Williamson, James Whittaker, Bola Roibi and Andrew Shorten in the same room? An interesting discussion on the power of the Flash community and some of the new challenges the Flash Platform faces, that’s what! (via Serge Jespers)
Joshua Davis at TOCA ME 09
March 23, 2009 – 11:30 am
I must have seen Joshua Davis present at least half a dozen times over the last few years but there’s something about his work that keeps inspiring — pushing Flash beyond its limitations to create some beautiful artwork. Definitely one to watch!
Flex, ActionScript and AIR Training
March 10, 2009 – 10:10 pm
I’m happy to announce a new set of intensive one-day courses on Flex, ActionScript and AIR that I’ll soon start delivering at Skills Matter in London. During that day you’ll get a thorough overview of the technology and some good hands-on experience building various real world examples. Here are the next few teach dates you read more