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Category Archives: Flex
FlexCamp 2008 Belgium
December 11, 2008 – 9:02 pm
Today the Adobe User Group Belgium organized a FlexCamp in Antwerp with some fantastic speakers lined up including no less than three Adobe employees (Matt Chotin, James Ward and Chet Haase) which must be a new record for us. I presented a slightly updated version of my “Introduction to SQLite in Adobe AIR” talk, covering 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
What have I been up to?
October 6, 2008 – 10:02 pm
When you go to conferences as much as I do and meet up with old friends and acquaintances, the number one question is: “So, Peter what have you been up to?”. I realized that, unless you follow me on twitter and actually read the dozens of messages I post there every week, fairly few people 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
Speaking at FlexCamp London
August 22, 2008 – 7:28 am
I was happy to see FlexCamp London happening next week, just as I am over there to teach a Flex course. After talking to Andrew Shorten and Mike Jones myself and Marco Casario were recruited to do a 30 minute talk on SQLite with Adobe AIR. Should be good fun! The agenda looks very promising, 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
Flex Authority has arrived!
August 18, 2008 – 11:08 pm
Great news for the Flex community, the inaugural issue of Flex Authority is here! It was great working as a technical reviewer with the various talented authors and I can promise you its chuckful of interesting articles on Flex and AIR for readers of all skill levels. Here’s to many more issues to come, an read more
Ely Greenfield talks about Flex “Gumbo”
July 25, 2008 – 1:29 pm
There are some interesting things happening for the next release of Flex. If you were at one of the MAX conferences last year you might have already seen Ely Greenfield talk about the Flex roadmap, now there’s a video about Flex “Gumbo” up on Adobe TV. Excited to see how things are shaping up!
“Meet the Guru” Training
July 12, 2008 – 9:27 pm
I’m excited to be partnering up with Comtaste for their “Meet the Guru” training sessions starting this October in London. October 13-15th, I’ll be doing a three day course on “Programming ActionScript 3 for Flex 3“, covering everything you’ll need to get started with ActionScript 3.0 development for your Flex-based Rich Internet Applications. Later that read more