Category: Flex
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.
Continue Reading →Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 11/07/2011
Posted on Nov 07, 2011
A lot of great tutorials and projects in this week's update including: a discussion of orientation versus deviceOrientation from Adobe's Tom Kraikit, performance testing blitting versus frame assignment on AIR for iOS by Michel Wacker, a new isometric engine for Flash Player 11 and Starling from Jonathan Dunlap, and an extensive tutorial on encoding live video to H.264/AVC using Flash Player 11 from RealEyes Media - among many other outstanding entries.
Continue Reading →Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 11/1/2011
Posted on Nov 01, 2011
Lots of really great tutorials, demos and more again this week. Starling and Stage3D continue to be a hot topic with a number of people doing various hardware and software performance tests. Also, of course, we get details on the beta releases of Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2 on Adobe Labs.
Continue Reading →Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 10/24/2011
Posted on Oct 24, 2011
An incredibly busy week again this week with a ton of articles and blog posts, especially on the subject of Starling and/or Stage3D for Flash Player 11. It's nice to see that people are excited about the possibilities that these tools create.
On the excitement part, this week I am excited to be attending RIA Unleashed he is Boston (technically Waltham though) which is going to feature a ton of sessions and workshops by some amazing speakers. This was my conference up until this year when I handed the reigns over to the event experts at FITC who appear to have a great show lined up for us. If you are on the East Coast - or in the Northeast especially - you should consider attending as there are still a few tickets for the Friday conference day available.
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