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  • Flash and the City

    Flash and the City schedule

    The first edition of the Flash and the City conference is 34 days away and thought I’d post a list of sessions I’m planning to attend. Friday, May 14th Adobe Keynote Ryan Stewart – Geolocation and Mapping with the Flash Platform Ben Stucki – Reflex:...

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  • Apple 1984

    Apple versus developers – this time it’s personal

    3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code...

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  • Flash across devices

    Flash across screens and devices

    Exciting times if you’re working with Flash Platform technologies, the idea of deploying the same codebase to multiple screens is really taking shape and I for one couldn’t be happier. AIR already allowed us to go cross platform with desktop apps (Windows, Mac and Linux),...

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  • CFUG Belgium launch event

    CFUG Belgium launch event

    Yesterday evening was the launch event of the ColdFusion User Group Belgium, a community initiative led by Steven Peeters and Cyril Hanquez, at the Adobe offices in Brussels. I did not know what to expect since ColdFusion users in Belgium were never very outspoken about...

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  • Looking back at Flex@Beach

    Looking back at Flex@Beach

    Yesterday, myself and two colleagues from Project Cocoon made it out to Chennai for Flex@Beach. I did not really know what to expect from the event but was happily surprised about the turnout and excitement around Flex and Flash Platform technology in general. There was...

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  • Flash Player 10.1 performance on mobile

    Flash Player 10.1 performance on mobile

    Recently James Ward, Technical Evangelist at Adobe, did a video showing performance of Flex running on the Google Nexus One in Flash Player 10.1. Consider that myth about Flash Player performance not being up to scratch for use on a certain mobile device well and...

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  • Project Cocoon has a new office

    Project Cocoon has a new office

    Earlier today we went to sign the agreement and left a deposit on the new Project Cocoon Multimedia apartments/office space in Colas Nagar, Pondicherry. We’ve now got ourselves a nice three story building that gives us enough space to have client meetings, organize training events...

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  • AIR 2 beta 2 – new printing features

    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...

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  • Trying out the iPad browsing experience

    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...

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  • Apple’s idea of the best web browsing experience

    Apple’s idea of the best web browsing experience

    Just hours after the product got announced, a lot has already been said and written about the Apple iPad and I don’t particularly feel I have a lot to add except for that “one more thing”. I’ve been working almost exclusively on Mac for about...

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