Category Archives: Video

AIR 2 beta 2 – new printing features

In case you missed it — AIR 2 beta 2 is now available on labs.adobe.com and among a bunch of other things there are now some really cool additional printing features that give you a lot more control than what we used to have. Be sure to check out the video interview Ryan Stewart did read more »

Trying out the iPad browsing experience

I did a little experiment this morning, disabling plug-ins in my browser aka “the iPad experience”. See where things start to break down? The Apple iPad web browsing experience, not quite what you expect. Yes, there are native apps for a number of these sites (social gaming on Facebook anyone?) I’m specifically talking about the read more »

Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity

The ActionScript Conference 2009 Singapore

We’re about a month away from the next edition of “The ActionScript Conference” and I can’t wait! This conference has fast become one of my all time favorites and this year will no doubt be even better with two days of sessions scheduled in. The speaker lineup looks excellent and includes people like: Ryan Stewart, read more »

Open at Adobe – Dave McAllister

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 »

Adobe AIR SQLite: an optimization conversation – Paul Robertson

I came across this great video by Paul Robertson, Senior ActionScript Developer/Writer at Adobe, about local database optimization with Adobe AIR. There’s some really useful information in his presentation so definitely worth watching!   

FlashCamp San Francisco video

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 »

Sneak Peek of Proxy Tags in ColdFusion 9

Ryan Stewart has an interesting video up on Adobe TV showing the ColdFusion proxy tags for use in Flex based apps. Shows the ability to call ColdFusion functionality directly from Flex without having to write the server side code yourself. This feature will likely be available with the release of ColdFusion 9 aka Centaur.   read more »

SOTR09 London – a video roundup

While at Scotch on the Road in London earlier this week I recorded a couple of videos and quickly edited those together for those interested to get a glimpse of what the event was like. Includes some clips of the pre event drinks at O’Neills, Adobe’s opening keynote sneaks, Terry Ryan’s “Extending Bolt” session and read more »

SOTR09 London – ColdFusion is dead, or is it?

Scotch on the Rocks went on the road this year, and I was happy to do a presentation yesterday at their London event. In many ways this was a new type of session for me — not in the least because most of my audience will no doubt have had more hands on experience with read more »

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