Thoughts, ideas, tips, musings, and pontifications (not necessarily in that order) by Ben Forta ...
NOTE: This is my personal blog, and the opinions and statements voiced here are my own.
Posted At : 11:42 AM
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MAX :
AdobeMAX10 :
Check out the new MAX Unawards, a new way to reward yourself for all your hard work (or for the lack thereof, or whatever else tickles your fancy). Fun stuff!
SapphireSteel has announced the release of Amethyst, their Flex, Flash and ActionScript IDE for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Check out the features and the introductory video. If you are a Visual Studio user, Amethyst may be exactly what you need to bridge the worlds of Flash and .NET.
On a personal note, I've been in regular contact with the SapphireSteel folks as Amethyst has evolved. This project, especially the Amethyst Designer, was an enormous undertaking on their part. And so to Huw Collingbourne and the crew at SapphireSteel, congratulations on reaching this milestone, and thank you for this important contribution to the Flash and Flex world.
Posted At : 11:58 PM
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AIR :
Flash :
The site is in Chinese, I know. But, in summary, the Adobe Flash Platform App Contest is a way for developers in China to build cool Flash and AIR apps and win prizes. ;-)
Hero is the codename for the next version of the Flex SDK. Deepa Subramaniam is the Flex SDK Product Manager, and she just announced that the first of what is planned to be semi-regular Hero builds has been posted.
Plants vs Zombies is one of my favorite casual games (my kids agree with me on this one). The original game was written in C++, and PopCap recently rewrote it in Flash. PopCap's Max Anderson will be attending MAX 2010 and will be talking about the port, and will be providing Flash performance optimization tips and tricks. This promises to be a fun and entertaining session.
Posted At : 11:29 PM
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Appearances :
Adobe Flash Summit Bangalore is about to begin. My fellow presenters Mark Doherty, Harish Sivaramakrishnan, and Anne Kathrine Petterøe are tweaking decks and testing demos. The crowds are starting to pour in ... here goes!
As per Gartner research reported in this InfoWorld story, Android is now the number one smartphone OS in North America (taking the top spot from RIM), and is third in the world.
Recently, Christophe Coenraets posted a great example of using the microphone API introduced in the latest builds of Adobe AIR for Android. And now Michaël Chaize has taken it a step further by posting an example of recording audio, and then manipulating WAV and MP3 files.
Posted At : 10:59 PM
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Mobile :
Flash :
Flash Player 10.1 for Android has been in beta on the Android Marketplace for a while, but today we released the final version, and it's available for:
Google Nexus One - Download from Android Market
HTC Evo 4G - Included with the Android 2.2 update from HTC
HTC Desire - Included with the Android 2.2 update from HTC
Motorola DROID 2 - Devices ship with Flash Player 10.1 pre-installed
In addition to Android, mobile platforms including Web OS, BlackBerry, MeeGo, LiMo, a future version of Windows Phone 7 and others will deliver support for Flash Player 10.1 over the coming months. Many of the new devices are expected to come pre-installed with full Flash.
Motorola Droid is now shipping with Flash. Learn how you can get started creating and optimizing content for a great mobile Flash experience. Join MOTODEV & Adobe experts for an evening of networking, pizza, beer and frozen yogurt. Anyone from the curious to the hardcore developers is welcome to participate. The DROID Does Flash event is Thursday, September 16, 2010 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM.
First, let me apologize to Adobe for all the harsh articles on how Flash is outdated, how it doesn't work on mobile devices and how HTML5 is taking over. After using Adobe Flash with my HTC EVO and Android's Froyo operating system, I am now a believer.
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For the past couple of days, I have been watching content directly from YouTube, streaming Flash videos from CNET, enjoying episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants (okay, laugh at me) on Nickelodian, watching Flash enabled video clips on Foxnews.com, and basically enjoying Flash content all over the web. For the first time, I feel like I truly have the Internet in my hands.
Frank X. Shaw, Vice President of Corporate Communications at Microsoft, recently posted an entry entitled Microsoft by the numbers. Regardless of how you feel about Microsoft or their products, this one provides some very interesting perspective on desktops versus netbooks and tables, smartphone market share, as well as industry income.
Posted At : 3:29 PM
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ColdFusion :
ColdObject is a new MVC framework for ColdFusion development. Its creator, Bolling Technology, claims that this MVC implementation manages to strike a better balance between structure and rapid development. ColdObject is already in use at U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and is currently being evaluated by U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
Posted At : 4:43 PM
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ColdFusion :
An important ColdFusion security hotfix has been released for ColdFusion 8.x and 9.x. This hotfix addresses a potential vulnerability in ColdFusion Administrator.
Posted At : 10:51 AM
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Mobile :
Flash :
Motorola and Verizon have announced that the eagerly anticipated Droid 2 goes on sale tomorrow! And the Droid 2 becomes the first Android phone to ship with Flash Player 10.1 preinstalled!
