Archive for July, 2006

Can you help the 10th anniversary of Flash

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Flash Adobe wish to showcase work from various developers and development houses. To this end I need your help. While part of Spooky and the Bandit, myself, Dave Williamson, Alex Burrows and Sam Safi produced some stella work (nothing like modesty :P). A lot of you pre Flash 5-ers [...]

We shall Flash them on the beaches

Even though we are sweltering under unseasonably hot weather I can but dream about Winter. The reason for this forward thinking is the fact that I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at Flash on the Beach in Brighton in December.
My session will be on component development, (like anyone would expect me [...]

What do you do after 10 years as a Flash developer?

I’m not sure – so tonight myself and Dave Williamson (Bittube.com) intend to ensconce ourselves in a bar and discuss exactly that. I mean careerwise I know mine and Dave’s paths have twisted and turned but we are always operating around the Flash platform so it will be interesting to see if we still agree [...]

Apollo or XULRunner – And where’s WPF/E?

I came across a few interesting articles and documents recently and it got me thinking more about Apollo. As most of us are already aware Apollo is a runtime in development at Adobe allowing the deployment of Flash platform, HTML and or PDF applications onto the desktop. Thus allowing them to operate just like native [...]

Mactel Flash 9 Player flies

So the beta of the Flash 9 player for Intel Macs came out on the 29th of June. I installed it yesterday and have to say it flies. I feel really sorry for my PowerPC colleagues in the office now, as this version offers a similar experience / performance to the Windows player. I haven’t [...]

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