Embrace your inner geek! I’m happy to announce together with Luca Mezzalira we’re starting a new community initiative called “Flash Platform Geeks“. In the next few weeks and at upcoming conferences you’ll learn a lot more about what we’re up to and how you can get involved. In the meanwhile why don’t you follow our read more
Flash Media Playback – WordPress plugin
Last 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 by Adobe so its ideal for bloggers to use. You read more
Surprise, I’ve bought an iPad
I’m certainly not Apple’s biggest fan these last few months, there’s a lot left to be desired around many of their company policies, openness and developer relations. That said I did get an iPad today. Why? In many ways this device is breaking new ground in a tablet form factor that is going to be read more
Adobe Flash Platform Summit coming soon
I was happy to hear Adobe is organizing a huge two day conference in Bangalore, India on August 25th and 26th. The Adobe Flash Platform Summit will no doubt be the place to be if you want to learn about their latest technologies and network with other industry professionals. The first day will cover mostly read more
Making the case for HTML5 support in the Flash Player
Earlier this week I got inspired seeing this presentation on HTML5. I’m a strong advocate of moving towards this standard and with browsers increasingly supporting it, makes it very attractive to start to learn and implement where possible. Contrary to what I’m seeing various tech blogs claim, HTML5 is in my opinion not a replacement read more
Speaking at Flash Israel
I’m very excited to have been invited to speak at Flash Israel in Tel Aviv later this month. The event is organized by the Flash and Flex Israel User Group and supported by a number of generous sponsors. It looks like a great lineup of speakers including Mihai Corlan of Adobe, Hillel Coren and Almog read more
Adobe User Group Belgium – CS5 launch event
It was the first time I’ve made it out to an Adobe User Group Belgium meeting since their relaunch and have to say I was very impressed. We had a fantastic venue in Antwerp and several speakers from Adobe to show off the latest features in Creative Suite 5 that was just shown to the read more
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: The Future of Rich Internet Applications Jeff Tapper – Flex read more
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 written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly read more