[update] There is now some more solid information on the future direction of Flex available here. We’re a week after Adobe’s shocking announcements around its future vision of the Flash Platform – time to get some perspective and see what exactly has happened. Unfortunately on a number of topics we’re no closer to having read more
I’m disgusted at Adobe today. It has now well and truly become tradition to have the post-MAX November layoffs. This year reportedly 750 employees got dismissed across North America and Europe (worse than the previous record after MAX Milan 2008). I wish them all the very best. If you start to see a recurring theme read more
I took a couple of videos with my Flip cam at the Adobe MAX awards and sneak peeks that I’d thought to share on the blog – Rainn Wilson was hilarious as a guest host and as usual there were some very good examples of technology the teams are experimenting with.
This was my fifth year attending Adobe MAX, always a great event to catch up on the latest developments when it comes to web and creative tooling. Its also an opportunity to see many friends, fellow enthusiasts in the community who we usually only get to talk to over email or social networks.
I’m excited to see my first ever video training DVD for Adobe Press/Peachpit now available. Together with Joseph Labrecque we recorded around 7.5 hours of training on building mobile applications with Flash CS5.5 and Flash Builder 4.5 for Android and iOS devices. Special thanks to the great team at video2brain in Graz, Austria for their read more
I realize I haven’t been blogging a lot about what I’ve been up to in the last few months so thought I’d better get a post out and share some of those things with you. Cocoon P2P The open source Cocoon P2P library has been released and got Dirk Eismann on board as a contributor read more
I’m excited to finally be able to make the announcement… I’ve been offered a position at Google UK, working out of their London office as a Rich Media Flash Developer in Dynamic Ads, Media and Platforms Solutions. Few people knew this was on the table, so it may come as a bit of a surprise read more
When working with local data in mobile applications you might want to consider a SQLite database. Those are especially useful when working with large amount of data that you want to filter at runtime. Flex Mobile projects can simply take advantage of SQLite support in the Adobe AIR runtime. You could certainly write it from read more
There are times when writing mobile apps that you want to have more fine grained control over the software keyboard and Flex 4.5 makes this very easy. Any object based on InteractiveObject now has a needsSoftKeyboard property, setting this to true will cause the virtual keyboard to come up on the device whenever the instance read more
If you’ve been playing around with the Flex 4.5 mobile features, one of the great new things is the ability to easily navigate between different screens. For this you can use the navigator object and push or pop a view in your application. There are a few extra things you can define when navigating between read more
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