If you’re in the Bay area on July 21st and you want to know more about Adobe AIR, then this is an event you won’t want to miss. Aimed at those of you who are currently developing or looking to develop AIR applications with a focus of monetizing your efforts. The event is being held at the Adobe office at 601 Townsend street (click here for map information)

If you are an AIR developer who has been looking for an easy way to reach millions of users and make money, join us for this joint Adobe – Intel event. Learn more about what Adobe and Intel are doing to help you distribute and monetize your AIR applications. We will talk about the business opportunity and how you can take advantage of the service immediately.

This is a late afternoon / evening event so you don’t have to take out time from your whole working day to attend. The event is free, but you do need to register. The agenda is as follows:

Agenda

• 4:45 PM – Registration Begins
• 5:00 PM – Beer & Pizza Served
• 5:30 PM – Flash Platform Services Overview (Adobe)
• 6:00 PM – Intel AppUp Center Business Model and Opportunity (Intel)
• 7:00 PM – Technical Deep Dive (Adobe)
• 8:30 PM – Staffed Open Lab (Adobe and Intel)

To register head over to the Adobe Intel Application lab event page on Adobe.com

If you missed out on any or all of the Build an app in a week web seminars that the EMEA Platform Evangelism team held last week, worry not. Below are all of the recordings for you to watch as many times as you wish. You don’t need any special software or app installed to view these beyond Flash Player.

The sessions are based around an application called EVA that the EMEA team are developing so you can get a real feel for how the Flash Platform designer to developer workflow can be leveraged to make creating rich engaging content easier.

• Erasing the designer-to-developer gap: Adding interactions to your design
  http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p90445619/
• Connecting your design to PHP services:
  http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p66013176/
• Connecting a web application to a J2EE back end using Flash Builder 4
  http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p20174257/
• Working with Flash CS5 components in your Flash Builder 4 project
  http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p49752948/
• Going multiuser with P2P in Flash Player 10.1
  http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p93914495/
• Developing multiuser applications with LiveCycle services
  http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p53039407/
• Bringing web applications to the desktop with AIR 2
  http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p97751544/
• Code once and run on multiple mobile devices
  http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p24983267/
• Rapidly build, deploy, and maintain Internet apps with ColdFusion
  http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p57074073/

If you enjoy these then head over to the Adobe Flash Platform Events page and have a look at all of the other recordings.

Like good old London red buses, you’re waiting for ages for one to come along, then two come at once. However I’m not talking about buses here. No, I’m excited about something completely different – I’m referring to Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0. Both of which are now available for download! I’ve already done a quick post about Flash Player 10.1 so it only follows to do the same for AIR 2.0 (so here it is).

There are some superb enhancements and additions to AIR 2.0 and you can read about them in depth over at the AIR teams blog post, but before you do here are some of the highlights (you can read the full list here):

• Enhanced support for interacting with printers
• Support for TLS/SSL socket communication
• Support for the detection of mass storage devices.
• Advanced networking capabilities like secure sockets, UDP support, and the ability to listen on sockets.
• Support for native code integration.
• The ability to open a file with its default application.
• Multi-touch and gesture support.
• New APIs for access to raw microphone data.
• WebKit update with HTML5/CSS3 support.
• Global error handling.
• Improved cross-platform printing.
• Improved security and support for enterprise and government standards.

You can install AIR 2.0 now by heading to the AIR download page.

Hot on the heels on the Platform Evangelist’s Developer Weeks here are another selection of webinars. These ones are focused on designing and developing for multiple screens utilizing the latest versions of Flash Player and AIR.

Going Multi-Screen with the Flash Platform

With the final releases of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 are just around the corner, we’d like to invite you to a series of free webinars introducing  the new multi-screen development capabilities of the Flash Platform. You will discover the exciting new features of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 and learn the best practices from leading industry experts on how to create and optimize web content, video, and applications across desktop and mobile.

The schedule is listed below. Be aware that if you’re in Europe these sessions are in Pacific Standard Time so you’ll need to adjust the times accordingly, (Here in the UK the early sessions are at 5:00pm BST and the later one is 9:00pm BST) . Alternatively you can just watch the recording once the sessions are over.

• Tuesday, June 22, 9AM – 10AM PST Best practices in optimizing web content for Flash Player 10.1
• Tuesday, June 22, 1PM – 2PM PST The quickest way to build cross-platform apps with AIR 2
• Wednesday, June 23, 9AM – 10AM PST Rich Internet App development with Flash Builder 4 for Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2
• Thursday, June 24 9AM – 10AM PST Multi-screen web content development with Flash Pro CS5

To register, visit http://www.adobe.com/go/multiscreen

I’m going to keep this short and sweet as the title pretty much sums it all up. Today I start a new chapter in my career as a Flash Platform Evangelist at Adobe. I’m super stoked about this and I’m both excited and honoured to be working with such a high calibre of individuals both on a professional and personal level.

I’ll be doing a follow up post about my first week as an Evangelist (well in a week obviously :p), but I wanted to celebrate this great opportunity by letting all my friends and peers know. I’d have done this announcement sooner but I’ve been sworn to secrecy for a rather long time – feels good to be able to shout it from the rafters at last :D

Go Team! :D

What seems like a lifetime since the first public beta of Flash Builder 4 has ended with the release of Beta 2 this morning. There are a heap of new things that have been added / moved / refactored since the last beta. One of the big things for me is the fact that there are far more Spark components included now. However we have generation of getter / setters, DCD and Unit testing. As well as enhancing the debugging / profiling

For a overview of wwhat’s in the latest beta check out Tim Buntell’s article on Adobe.com.

There is also an introduction to Flash Builder 4 video – you can view that here

Another year another fantastic conference in Brighton – I’m obviously speaking about Flash on the Beach. What a fantastic conference, not only was it bigger and better but John announced that there would be a Flash on the Beach Miami in 2009. I’m pretty stoked by this as John had sworn me to secrecy over this new conference date. Plus he’d asked me if I’d like to present there…Hell yeah!

That said this year at Flash on the Beach I did a session entitled “Things To Make And Do”. It was a talk about the Flex framework from the perspective of component development and how an understanding of how the component framework in Flex works will provide you with a good grasp of how the overall Flex framework flows.

So without further ado, here are the links to download my session notes and the example code used in the presentation. I’ve added some detail to the slide notes, (you’ll need to download the version with the notes – not the one below). That said I may record the session again via Screenflow so it is useful for everyone. I’ve also shared it via Adobe Share and embedded the slide deck below

Download Files

• Slide Deck (No notes)
• Slide Deck (Notes included)
• Session Example Skinning Files

With exactly a week to go I thought I’d post an update to Flex Camp London ’08.

We now have all of the sessions and speakers sorted out and I’m pleased to announce that Peter Elst and Marco Casario are going to do a session (they were just attending initially but I pinged Peter on Twitter and they are now speaking :D). Don’t let this overshadow the rest of the speakers though, while some may not be as well known in the community they are top of their respective fields and some of the best Flex specialists in the UK

The sessions cover a wide spectrum of Flex related topics, not all are developer orientated so there will probably be something for everyone – have a look at the schedule below and you’ll see what I mean.

2.00pm Start
2.15pm Keynote – Andrew Shorten, Adobe
2.45pm Building your 1st Flex application – David Arnold, Academy Class
3.15pm Styling, skinning, designer/developer workflow – Chris Jenkins, Tribal
3.45pm Break / ‘show and tell’ – Monochrome
4:00pm PureMVC – Justin Clarke, Samuel Williams, LBi
4.20pm Flex and ColdFusion – Niklas Richardson, Monochrome
4.40pm Flex and Java – Bryan Hunt, Emak Mafu
5.00pm Break / ‘show and tell’
5.15pm Who you need on your Flex team – Neil Middleton, Monochrome
5.45pm Application development best practices – Dan Thomas, Moov2
6.15pm Break / ‘show and tell’
6.30pm SQLite with AIR – Marco Casario, Peter Elst
7:00pm Flex component development, Mike Jones, Pixadecimal / FlashGen.Com
7:30pm Q&A Ask The Panel session
8:00pm Pizza and Beers

You can find out more on the Flex Camp London ’08 site

Places are filling up fast, so if you want to attend sign up now!

If you are interested in learning more about Flex, are free from 2pm-8pm on 28th August 2008 and are in London (or can get there) then this is for you.

Flex Camp London 08 will be holding a one day conference to help you get down with Flex, or get that awkward Flex question answered..

There are loads of sessions from skinning to data integration, frameworks through to component development. Plus there is FREE BEER (for the over 18s) and LOADS of prizes (see the release below).

Flex Camp London 08 is a FREE, community-run event for everyone interested in Adobe Flex! Whether you’re just getting started with Flex or you’re an expert, Flex Camp aims to provide something for you.

We’ve lined up some of the most experienced Flex developers in the UK who will share their knowledge on everything from creating your first application, connecting to data, creating components and development best practices through to selecting an application framework for larger projects.

Flex Camp will also include a panel discussion, provide an opportunity for you to show off what you’re building in the Show & Tell open session and let you meet up with other developers to talk about Flex. We’ve also got some great prizes to give-away throughout the day, including a ticket to Adobe MAX in Milan, Adobe software and Flex training courses from Academy Class.

So if you are interested and want to join the fun head over to the Flex Camp homepage to sign up and find out more! HURRY AS PLACES ARE LIMITED

So today is the London leg of the onAir tour. I thought this would be a great opportunity to test out qik too. So over the course of the day I will be streaming directly from the event (battery life on my N95 permitting).

For those who want to have a look you can find my qik page here (http://qik.com/flashgen). I did manage to stream all of Andrew Shorten’s keynote (that tanked my battery) – not sure how the sound came out as I’m running mute here as we are currently in session. Anyway as I upload more videos they will appear in my Qik profile.