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Seb and his magic particles
February 3, 2009 – 5:30 pm
I came across another great presentation by Seb Lee-Delisle that you’ll want to see — he talks about augmented reality and working with the FLARToolkit, some incredibly cool and fun stuff to try with Flash. Well worth 15 minutes of your time to sit back and get inspired!
Adobe’s Rich Internet Applications Roadmap
January 23, 2009 – 2:32 pm
There’s quite a bit of interesting info in this video recording on Adobe’s Rich Internet Applications Roadmap. Particularly note the focus areas for 2009 with Flash Player “Argo” and “Stratos”, the plans for mobile and devices and ideas for AIR extensibility.
Jim Corbett on SWF Searchability
December 14, 2008 – 7:13 pm
Jim Corbett, Flash Player Engineer at Adobe, did a talk at MAX San Francisco with some good information on how the Flash Search Player works and what Google (and hopefully more search engines in the near future) can get out of your SWF files for indexing. Nice to see more information available, we’ve had a read more
Feweb – Flash versus Javascript
December 11, 2008 – 2:12 am
I just got back from the annual Feweb event, this year I was scheduled in the Rich Internet Applications track to do a Flash versus Javascript battle with none other than Peter-Paul Koch, moderated by Gijs Van Essche. Despite our sincere efforts it was difficult to find fault with the two technologies since they complement read more
More information on FlaCC
October 5, 2008 – 10:08 am
Thanks to Zohar Babin for pointing me to some further information about the FlaCC project on the LLVM.org website. Scott Petersen gave a talk on August 1st at the Apple Campus for the “2008 LLVM Developers’ Meeting“. The title of his session was “Flash C Compiler: Compiling C code to the Adobe Flash Virtual Machine” read more
What is FlaCC all about?
October 4, 2008 – 2:25 am
If you paid close attention during some of the Adobe sessions at Flash on the Beach you’ll have heard about a project called FlaCC, basically a way to compile C and C++ libraries to ActionScript bytecode. I haven’t seen a whole lot of people talking about it as of yet even though – if this read more
Flash on the Beach 2008 – Keynote
October 3, 2008 – 7:31 am
Another year, another great Flash on the Beach keynote. This year Richard Galvan, Serge Jespers and Mark Doherty took the stage to talk about Flash CS4, AIR and Flash Lite. At some point during the keynote Richard mistakenly says that Flash Player 10 beta has reached 60% adoption, I’ve been told by Adobe that there read more
What to expect from Creative Suite 4
September 22, 2008 – 4:47 pm
With Adobe Creative Suite 4 getting officially announced tomorrow, I thought it was worth looking back at some video I shot during the sneak peek session at MAX Chicago last year where they first started showing features of the next version of the Flash authoring environment. Despite some leaked information about CS4 on AppleInsider calling read more
The Actionscript Conference 2008
August 19, 2008 – 10:47 pm
I’m very excited to be part of the first edition of “The ActionScript Conference” at the National Library in Singapore on October 19th! With fellow speakers like Lee Brimelow, Michael Plank, Stefan Wessels and others it promises to be a great day. The conference is organized by the Singapore Flex Usergroup that includes such talented read more
Flash on the Beach 08
August 4, 2008 – 9:02 pm
This years Flash on the Beach is just 7 weeks away — time sure flies when you’re having fun! If you’ve not been to any of the two previous editions, you’ve definitely missed out — it is one of the very best Flash events worldwide to hang out at, meet new people and get inspired! read more