Category: Flex
Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 12/9/2011
Posted on Dec 09, 2011
This was another week that was heavy on blog posts focused on Stage3D and AIR native extensions for the desktop. There were also a number of new open source projects or demos across the Flash platform including for mobile development and for ColdFusion.
Continue Reading →Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 12/1/2011
Posted on Dec 01, 2011
A lot of tutorials this week with a heavy focus on Stage3D and AIR native extensions. Both of these topics have continued to be extremely hot topics in the community. In fact, with the preponderance of Flash content the past couple weeks, I have reordered the content categories below to, hopefully, better reflect the current level of discussion.
In addition, Flex 4.6 was released this week and it has a lot of new features including new components for tablet application development. Adobe evangelist Michael Chaize gives a solid rundown of many of the new Flex 4.6 features.
Continue Reading →Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 11/23/2011
Posted on Nov 23, 2011
This week (in the US at least) we are giving thanks - so thank you to all the developers in the Flash and Flex community who contribute and share their knowledge with others. Thank you for continuing to prove the bias of many media outlets wrong and demonstrate Flash is very much alive. This week's hot topics seem to continue to be examples and demos using Stage3D and AIR native extensions.
Continue Reading →Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 11/16/2011
Posted on Nov 16, 2011
Oh, so you thought the cool stuff was over? Well, the community is still creating cool stuff, Adobe is still creating the Flash Platform and I still love both. Now, if you are looking for my thoughts on many of our recent announcements, you can check my post on the topic as none of that will be covered here. Going forward perhaps the format of these posts will change but I plan to continue them and for the moment, the only change is that I am not linking to any of the discussions of our more controversial announcements this week. Rather I am truly just focused on the cool stuff the community created.
On that note, this is obviously a light week as folks were probably a bit distracted to blog. However, there was still some great content - for example check out the ApplicationFinder and AIRKinect native extensions for AIR 3 below!
Continue Reading →Moving Forward with Flex and Flash
Posted on Nov 15, 2011
It would be an understatement to say this has been a tough week - both for those of us inside Adobe as well as for many of our developer community. In addition to the layoffs, you'd be forgiven for feeling as though we carpet bombed major changes to our developer products, In fact, it really was only two dramatic changes that directly affect our developer community: the end to the Flash Player plugin for mobile devices and televisions and the plan to donate Flex to the Apache open source foundation. Many people within Adobe have admitted, particularly in the former case, that the communications could have been handled better. In addition, we appear to have created some sort of Internet meme around variations of the term "double-down." I know that we, as a company, have lost the trust of many within our developer community. I am hopeful though that, at least as it relates to Flex, the most recent update begins the process of repairing that relationship with the community.
In this post I want to share some thoughts I have on these topics in the hopes of both, hopefully, helping to move the process forward but also to continue to maintain an open discussion with our developer community (as I mentioned in my earlier post, my job and focus on our developer community hasn't dramatically changed). Keep in mind, these are my own opinions and none of this has been vetted or endorsed by my employer.
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