Flex Tech

China earthquake (Wenchuan earthquake)NEW photos
Thousands of people were reported killed today when China’s worst earthquake for 30 years struck a densely populated area in Sichuan province. (more…)

As you may have heard, the next version of Flex is codenamed “Gumbo” and we are beginning to get out information on the kinds of things we’re thinking about. One of our themes is called “Design in Mind” and I have now posted information on the open source site to try to set the context for what we’re looking at. Over the next few weeks, engineers will be putting up specifications and blog postings about the kinds of things we’re looking at as part of this theme. More themes will get their intros over time as well. (more…)

This is a folllow up to the post on Open Screen and the lack of interest from Apple.

I was watching Kevin Lynch’s presentation on the goals of Adobe for future deployments of AIR and he demonstrated the desired path for Adobe. He talked about the new Open Screen alliance and the goals of a unified flash player and a unified AIR runtime deployed across the many partners and devises. (more…)

I am really excited about the announcement of the new Open Screen project from Adobe, but again there is no sign of Apple.
The Open Screen Project is supported by technology leaders, including Adobe, ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless, and leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal, who want to deliver rich Web and video experiences, live and on-demand across a variety of devices. (more…)

Okay,first let me say that I love my MacBook and am a big supported of Apple. However, after reading the post about Pandora on cnet I am a little concerned. The context of the article is just speculation at this point about how enabling Flash on the iPhone could be a revenue hit to Apple. Pandora allows users to listen to and bookmark music streaming within the browser via the Flash Player. It then allows users to purchase their bookmarked music from either Amazon.com or Apple through iTunes. (more…)

Every once in a while I peek over the fence to see what the HTML/JS camps at Adobe are working on and was I in for a suprise. I really believe that the next Dreamweaver release is a killer app for HTML/JS/AJAX design and development. It is rare for me to label something a killer app but I have never seen first class tooling for html/js like this before. (more…)

The Adobe Flash Platform

As a veteran in the field of interactive design, I have watched Adobe  Flash  grow over the years from a single application into a development platform with a range of tools. On February 25, 2008, I taught an online workshop in using Flash and Flex for developing Internet content for the University of Southern California’s Media Arts and Practices graduate program.  I showed attendees how to apply progressively more complex skills and techniques across the range of tools that comprise the Flash platform, and how to match the appropriate Flash toolsets to the demands of various kinds of interactive development projects. (more…)

Summarizing Adobe’s Ryan Stewart’s response to critiques saying that Flex breaks the open web. I understand that Adobe has to do their best to win over the entire software community, but I for one care little about standards. They do have a role in the industry, and I wouldn’t throw them out all together. However, I think any claim that they will lead us to the future is simply wrong. Standards can only capture the lowest common denominator, and rarely if ever lead to innovation. They are the rear view mirror of what has already happened in the industry. (more…)

Multiple people have told me that a very limited amount of time went into grabbing this from the labs and presenting it at the conference (like measured in days – not even weeks). Combining that with Sun’s lousy track record with Java UI technologies, I quickly wrote off the release / platform. (more…)

It’s a good way to keep your comments tidy when you have a tremendous long list of comments. Check it out there  and click Show All at the comment section. You will know what I mean. I have seen a lot of blogs, and there are a lot of comments, while I open those pages made my brower Slow! Now, you can use this WordPress Paged Comments Plugin. But my site just have little comments, so you can not see the power of this plugin. lol! (more…)