It’s conference season at the moment for geeks, and one of the best going around is of course Sydney’s own webDU. This is seriously one of the best conferences for the web and technology industries, and always delivers a high standard of content and entertainment
This will be my 7th webDU, and 6th as a speaker. This year I’ll be speaking about mobile marketplaces and the technologies that allow us to go to market quickly, and there’s some other great mobile content at the conference as well, including a great session from Rod Farmer and Oliver Weidlich.
I encourage you to get along to webDU this year – this time at a new venue at the famous Bondi Beach!
There’s been a flurry of activity on the Adobe Developer Connection site recently due to this being the silly season for corporate announcements around mobile. Take a look at these articles and whitepapers to understand where the Flash Platform has moved to and how you will need to evolve as a Flash developer to make the most of this brave new(ish) world.
Thibault Imbert from Adobe has also authored a substantial document titled “Optimizing Mobile Content for the Adobe Flash Platform” which you can download as PDF here.
It’s great to see more and more resources being developed to assist Flash developers and designers make the jump to producing work for the small screen, but I’m mindful of the common misnomer that continues to be spoken about when looking at a “write-once, deploy-everywhere” approach to Flash development. Particularly now that Adobe AIR has been announced for devices, and the reality of a technical solution for dropping a single AIR file onto multiple devices, it’s vitally important to take a step back and remember that the user experiences for these multiple devices are very different. Read More
Thought I’d post about how things are going with this new adventure called full-time employment with a telco, after a month of settling in and getting things up and running. As well, there’s been so much to talk about over the past month in the Flash world that I’ve kind of just held back a bit until all the who-ha has died down, to see what I really think and where things are headed for me. Read More
Via Engadget: I’ve always admired developers who can delve right to the very core of devices and hack them to do their bidding. I’m not THAT technically capable myself, but love to see the results as sometimes, it pushes the actual industry into new directions that it might not have otherwise explored.
This may not be one of those moments, but geez I thought it was cool – a hack of the increasingly-popular Nokia N900 smartphone to run the default Maemo operating system from the internal device storage, and Android from a partition on the SD card.
In a week where Apples closed mobile platform is likely to get another shot in the arm, this is a refreshing post to remind us of the power of open platforms and the way they can change the game for developers.
There’s something very familiar about the concept that has been released for the next version of Symbian – Symbian^4. There’s been a lot of negativity around the aging Symbian OS and UI for sometime, with growing unhappiness from the time the first Nokia touch-screens started to roll out, and users feeling like the old S60 3rd Edition OS had just been shoe-horned onto a touch-screen device.
But if these early concept illustrations are anything to go by, the newly “opened-up” Symbian OS will be taking cues from the leading operating systems as well as keeping some elements of familiarity. To me this is a very Android-esque design, with a widget-style approach (that actually looks more like widgets than what the N900 has at the moment) and stylish floating palettes. There’s also a little hint to the iPhone with the multi-desktop indicator across the bottom, and a suggestion of the Maemo approach with the top title bar indicating a “drop-down menu” for more options.
Of course, this is just a mockup shown on concept devices, so there’s nothing to hang your hat on at this early stage, but it makes me feel like things are headed in the right direction for Symbian.
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I'm currently the Experience Architect and Team Lead for the "Appland" team at Vodafone Hutchison Australia, based in Sydney. Views on this blog are my own and not that of my employer. More about me.
Thought I’d post about how things are going with this new adventure called full-time employment with a telco, after a month of settling in and getting things up and running. As well, there’s been so much to talk about over the past month in the Flash world that I’ve kind of just held back a bit until all the who-ha has died down, to see what I really think and where things are headed for me. 
