In case you’ve grown accustomed to the cool dampness of the underside of a rock, you’ve heard the news. AIR Mobile for Android has been announced, bringing Flash to even more devices in the future. With the already imminent release of Flash Player 10.1 on mobile devices, and Flash CS5′s back door into the iPhone App Store, it’s hard to deny the potential effects on our computing habits in the future. Read the rest of this entry →
[Ed. Note: I was going to be all cute and try to draw some conceptual box art, but I'll leave that to someone with more time. 
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Well, it’s that time of year again. The time for us all to wager on what we think will be unveiled at MAX. A few people have already weighed in, but the one thing I haven’t seen guessed at yet (probably because the likelihood is low) is the announcement of a Flash Platform Suite. I know I’m not the first person to think of this, but I haven’t seen it committed to paper yet. So I would like to hear the Community’s opinion: Flashers, Flexers, and CFers, what would you want in an Adobe Flash Platform Suite if such a thing(s) were to ever come into existence? Products like Flex Builder, ColdFusion and other Flash Platform applications are all currently sold separately, and we have yet to hear mention of how Flash Catalyst or ColdFusion Builder will be packaged. This is all in pure fun, of course. We have no idea if any such options will ever become commercially available. So, with that disclaimer out of the way, let’s speculate! Read the rest of this entry →
Over the last few years as a Flash Developer, I’ve noticed something. Flash isn’t what it used to be. Back in the days of Studio MX, when I first encountered Flash, it was the Wild West of interactive development. Much of that had to do with it’s labeling as a “fad” and the fact that it was the only real IDE that could write small and compelling interactive content for the web. Read the rest of this entry →
I was kind of in the middle of deciding how I was going to design/publish/host my blog (had been for years) but I finally found something that made me really want to write. So, with the disclaimer of this being my first FULL blog post and the design being a little rough right now, let’s get on with it.
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