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 After taking heavy fire from Steve Jobs over Flash, Adobe Tuesday ran up a white flag and produced a so-called experimental Flash Professional-to-HTML 5 automatic conversion tool called Wallaby so Flash files can run on Apple’s otherwise forbidden iPad and iPhone.
It will work initia...Mar. 14, 2011 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,396 |
 This week, stalwart packaged applications software vendor Adobe announced the availability of its Flash Media Server on Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure. It’s a move that should be good for both companies but one that also raises a few questions.Dec. 20, 2010 09:00 AM EST Reads: 5,488 |
 After all these rumors on Microsoft buying Adobe, several people asked me what do I think of it, and, of course the second question was (it’s always on the mind of every professional software developer), “What to learn next?”
Oct. 12, 2010 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 7,752 |
 There are two types of Web applications: those that care about their discoverability and those that don’t. May. 10, 2010 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,601 |
 As a diversion from its high-profile “who-knows-where-it-will-end” dogfight with Gizmodo over an errant iPhone prototype, Apple has posted a longish open letter on its web site over the signature of its CEO Steve Jobs reiterating all the reasons why Apple has no use for Adobe’s Flash t...May. 2, 2010 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 7,573 |
 Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of the Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 product family, the highly-anticipated release of the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. With more than 250 new product feature...Apr. 30, 2010 05:33 AM EDT Reads: 5,374 |
 Adobe introduced on Monday Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5, the new professional interaction design tool that allows designers to rapidly create expressive Web application interfaces and design interaction without writing code.
With Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5, Flash Professional CS5 and Flas...Apr. 12, 2010 08:05 AM EDT Reads: 12,214 |
 Does it seem like everyone is ganging up on Adobe these days? Apple and Microsoft have made some bold moves lately in an attempt to prevent Adobe’s Flash technology from transferring the same dominance it has on the PC onto mobile devices.
At the recent Mobile World Congress exhibitio...Apr. 9, 2010 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,206 |
 Here's yet another well written blog by Rachel Luxemburg that looks like a petition to Steve Jobs. So?
Such write-ups won't have any effect on Apple's decision about Flash Player.
It's a cold blooded decision, and if the real reason for not letting FP on iPhone OS is to keep con...Feb. 6, 2010 02:30 PM EST Reads: 4,785 |
 Yesterday, I finished my dinner in a French restaurant with traditional crème brulee. This time I’ve also ordered a small glass of Sauternes wine. Then we went to our friend’s house to follow it with some good old port.
But no matter what software developers drink or eat in Februa...Feb. 6, 2010 01:00 PM EST Reads: 13,859 Replies: 2 |
Remember me? Sorry for lack of posts. Happy to report I am very busy on both the pressDOOH and Preset fronts, and seeing a lot of airports (but dodging storms). Anyway, there is encouraging news on the Dec. 25, 2009 09:30 PM EST Reads: 3,869 |
 There are about 250,000 developers working with Flex and AIR. If you add an army of ActionScript developers, this number will grow substantially. Where do you go if you have a technical issue while developing RIA? As of today, there no one place to ask questions and get answers. A res...Dec. 12, 2009 10:30 PM EST Reads: 6,261 |
 When creating and designing your website and blog, do you want to create your own web player to present videos? It's time to get your own player with Moyea PlayerBox, which facilitates player creation and player skinning with new version.Oct. 29, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,038 |
 According to the CEO of Adobe America, Adobe company is planning to transplant its flash player to iPhone.
Adobe CEO indicated that Adobe may cooperate with Apple to ensure the smooth flash player application on iPhone in Adobe company’s first quarter performance conference early this...Oct. 20, 2009 10:51 PM EDT Reads: 4,897 |
 Today, Adobe made a very interesting announcement - Adobe Flash Platform Services for Distribution is available to the public. To put it simple, it’s a new way of distributing, promoting, and measuring the usage of your applications on the Web.Sep. 21, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,937 |
 First, yes, screen readers can read Flex applications. And yes, its fairly easy. But, I’ll discuss how in a future post.
But, if you’d rather send people to your old HTML version of your site when using a read, there is good news. Flash Player has the ability to detect if a screen r...Sep. 8, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,184 |
 Adobe says it’s going to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) specification designed for high-performance transmission of audio, video and data between Adobe Flash Platform technologies. Think AMF, SWF, FLV and F4V formats compatible with Adobe Flash Player. The RTMP disclos...Jan. 22, 2009 07:25 AM EST Reads: 4,370 |
 Adobe and Intel plan to collaborate on porting Adobe’s Flash widgetry to Intel’s Media Processor CE 3100, a way to put Flash-enhanced web content and rich Flash applications on television. The chip is bound for cable set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, digital TVs and retail-connected...Jan. 6, 2009 04:05 AM EST Reads: 6,704 |
Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software. Interactive designers and developers can leverage the new expressive features and visual performance improvements in Flash Player 10 for unprecedented creative control to deliver ... Oct. 15, 2008 12:01 AM EDT Reads: 4,267 |
Director of Ribbit's Developer Platform, Chuck Freedman, will explore an evolution in web communication. With the growing demand of RIA and voice-over-the-web solutions, developers finally have a full suite of communication APIs to add to Flash. Coding with Ribbit, Freedman will demons... Oct. 10, 2008 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,651 |
 Director of Ribbit's Developer Platform, Chuck Freedman, will explore an evolution in web communication. With the growing demand of RIA and voice-over-the-web solutions, developers finally have a full suite of communication APIs to add to Flash. Coding with Ribbit, Freedman will demons...Sep. 20, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,428 |
 Adobe Flex and Flash are the ideal technology for Rich Internet Applications because you can build those applications with reusable components that are Loosely Coupled. In his session, learn how you can create an On-Demand Authoring Environment for creating Rich Internet Applications b...Sep. 20, 2008 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,862 Replies: 1 |
 Adobe says it's going to 'dramatically improve' the search results of dynamic web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs) for Google and Yahoo by giving them optimized Flash Player technology. This new widgetry, which will read and index SWF files, is supposed to uncover informat...Jul. 9, 2008 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,490 |
 I might have skipped some of the new features of Flash Player 10, but you can always refer to the official FAQ page. Visit Plash Players 10 page on Adobe Labs to download new player (there is no debug version yet). The standalone debug versions are also available. You can use the offic...May. 30, 2008 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 15,523 |
 Adobe has put an alpha pre-release of AIR for Linux up in hopes, it says, of getting feedback from the community, not to mention winning adherents. It's English-only. The company also joined the Linux Foundation to encourage the growth of RIA technologies on Linux, it said. The company...Apr. 4, 2008 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 17,084 |
These days RIA tools are created mainly to two groups of people: Web Developers and UI Designers. The second group is represented by creative people who can design screens but are not programmers. Big guys are trying to come with tools that would bring together these two groups of peop... Mar. 17, 2008 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 10,742 Replies: 2 |
These are the notes from Adobe Education Designer and Developer Conference that Adobe put together for people who are teaching Adobe software at various universities around the country. Mar. 5, 2008 01:00 AM EST Reads: 8,804 |
OK, car manufactures go Flex. Will they lose or gain customers because of that? Car manufacturers want to have fancy consumer sites. It's a world of RIA, and having interactive Web sites should bring more people to car dealerships. But poorly performing Web site can turn into lost rev... Feb. 16, 2008 01:15 PM EST Reads: 10,792 Replies: 2 |
Action Message Format (AMF) is a protocol that is used to serialize the data coming into Flash Player or going out to other programming environments that need to communicate with Flash Player. Say, if you create in Java an instance of the class MyOrder, this instance can be converted i... Feb. 4, 2008 11:30 AM EST Reads: 9,589 Replies: 1 |
I ran into an interesting blog written by a Flash programmer who feels that Adobe's promotion of Flex puts him and other Flash programmers at a disadvantage. And he knows how to resist! Jan. 31, 2008 05:00 PM EST Reads: 12,595 |
Adobe will release Flex 3 around February of 2008. It has a number of improvements and new features, in particular it'll bring Flash designers and Flex developers together. Creative Suite 3 will have an easy way to incorporate Flex content right into the timeline of Flash IDE. Contain... Sep. 20, 2007 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 18,765 |
Adobe has published statistics on the penetration of Flash Player 9 as of June 2007. The numbers look pretty good - over 90 percent of the users in mature markets have it already installed. 90% is not a 100% and not even 98% that Flash Player 8 already enjoys. Since the penetration spe... Sep. 5, 2007 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 18,005 |
'The Java backlash,' writes Bruce Eckel, 'has been building up steam, and we're starting to see some fundamental shifts because of it.' Java has been around for 10 years yet applets are not the primary way that we interact with the web. Applets are not ubiquitous, and everyone got exci... Jun. 7, 2007 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 138,198 Replies: 38 |
Who's better looking? Flash Player or Sliverlight? As of today, 98% of the world computer users know what Flash Player is and only 2% or so know what's Silverlight. But this will change pretty soon. Both Flash Player and Silverlight can read any plain HTTP feed. Flex also offers faster... Apr. 17, 2007 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 17,760 |
 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services today are going mainstream. Corporate executives and individuals at home are demanding access to many of the same GIS capabilities previously used only by engineers, geologists, and government officials.Feb. 23, 2007 11:00 PM EST Reads: 18,729 |
 My goals here are to integrate www.adobe.com/products/flash/ Flash with www.adobe.com/products/flex/ Flex, i.e. not just treat it as a design asset tool, but as a contributor to the functionality of the client; using Flash for enhancing the design, and helping reduce transition code w...Feb. 8, 2007 11:00 AM EST Reads: 35,111 Replies: 1 |
Flash Player 9 enters pre-Alpha stage on Linux. Adobe marketing needs to work harder. Oct. 6, 2006 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 21,500 |
 All objects in recent versions of ActionScript are defined by something called classes. Think of classes as blueprints that determine the unique combination of characteristics, actions, and reactions that comprises a particular object of a certain type. By 'object,' we are talking abou...Oct. 1, 2006 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 15,756 |
While a large Flex application is loaded, the user may experience unpleasant delays, which can be used productively to logon to this application. Besides, it'll give the user perception that your application loads faster. Sep. 21, 2006 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 22,530 |
Aral Balkan of OSFlash.org answers a few brief questions about the amazing promise that the Flash Platform holds in the age of Web 2.0 and the role that Balkan sees for open-source Flash in that equation. Aug. 21, 2006 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,288 |
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