This 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 seemingly any understanding of the (all be it incredibly cool) read more
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
I 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, more so than many other leading technology companies, the opposite read more
I’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 least we’ll get people to actively start experimenting with SEO read more
I 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 heading in. Tried to cover as much ground as read more
Some 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 mobile devices. It wouldn’t be a stretch of the imagination read more
We 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 step closer to a release — be sure to check read more
The Papervision3D sesion with Carlos Ulloa is up next, still half an hour to go but better go grab a seat as I’m sure its going to be packed. 13:32:02 GMT-0400 – Carlos takes the stage and starts talking about next generation web experiences — going beyond technical limitations
Having had Ralph over to our user group last Thursday was a real inspiration to get experimenting with Papervision3D again. Last night I decided to try out John Grdn’s new PV3D components for the Flash IDE — I was stunned. Its been ages since I last played around with the API but its ridiculously quick read more
Its incredible what the Papervision3D guys have been doing — pushing ActionScript to the limits in creating a powerful 3D engine for Flash that we could only have dreamed of. Another example of how the community drives the evolution of the Flash platform. Although their API was easy enough for any developer to get started read more
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