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TWiT Live Desktop 2.2 goes open source
Posted on September 1, 2010 | 1 CommentIt took me a long time to finally get round to it, but have updated the TWiT Live Desktop AIR application and released it as version 2.2. I’ve also gone ahead and made it open source under an MIT license, so feel free to check... -
Cool Stuff I Didn’t Make
Posted on August 17, 2010 | No CommentsFlash 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... -
Flash Media Playback – WordPress plugin
Posted on July 31, 2010 | 5 CommentsLast 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... -
The black box that is the Flash Player
Posted on January 21, 2010 | 7 CommentsThis 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... -
Making the case for ActionScript
Posted on August 9, 2009 | 50 CommentsThis 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... -
Open at Adobe – Dave McAllister
Posted on July 25, 2009 | 5 CommentsI was happy to see this video by Dave McAllister, Open Standards Evangelist at Adobe, talking about Adobe’s take on open initiatives and how that involves community. There are some common misconceptions about Adobe being very concerned with keeping their core technologies closed and proprietary while,... -
Ryan Stewart’s Flex SEO Contest
Posted on July 7, 2008 | 2 CommentsI’m very happy to see Ryan Stewart from Adobe taking my concerns on board with regards to Flash content SEO and launching the “Flex SEO Contest“. Its not been particularly fun being the whiney guy continuously talking about issues with SWF indexing. At the very... -
The Evolution of the Flash Platform
Posted on May 31, 2008 | 5 CommentsI did a talk last night on “The Evolution of the Flash Platform” at Skills Matter as part of the London Web Week. Had a nice group of people turn up from various backgrounds and all seemed very interested in seeing the direction Flash is... -
ActionScript 3.0 / ECMAScript 4 for devices
Posted on December 19, 2007 | 1 CommentSome more good news coming from Adobe with them contributing a new virtual machine to the open source Tamarin project. This new VM – internally called QVM – known to the outside world as Tamarin-Tracing essentially brings the power of AVM2 (ActionScript 3.0/ECMAScript 4) to... -
Adobe’s Christmas Presents
Posted on December 13, 2007 | No CommentsWe all heard the rumors that something big was coming. Last night Shantanu dressed up as Santa and left the following goodies on labs for us to play with: Flex Builder 3 beta 3 The long awaited beta 3 has been made available, one...