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Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
WIRED Magazine tablet version inside Adobe AIR
Posted 17 Feb 2010 — by Dale
Category Adobe, Technology
Category Adobe, Technology
To me, this is something to really get excited about – not just because of what the Flash Platform is going to bring to tablet devices, but because of what the future of media publishing looks like. I would read more of a magazine and engage more with advertising content if I could get it like this.
(PS Is anyone else having issues with the video starting to play or is it just me? If you experience problems (I’m in Firefox), then I also got the video to work on the XD Blog)
New Adobe DevNet resources and thoughts on “write-once”
Posted 17 Feb 2010 — by Dale
Category Adobe, Mobile, Technology
Category Adobe, Mobile, Technology
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.
- “Delivering video for Flash Player 10.1 on mobile devices” by Edmond Au
- “Authoring mobile Flash content for multiple screen sizes” by Christian Cantrell
- “Design tips for creating mobile RIAs” by Dave Zuverink
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
One month into the new job …
Posted 13 Feb 2010 — by Dale
Category Mobile, Technology
Category Mobile, Technology
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
N900 dual-booting Maemo and Android
Posted 25 Jan 2010 — by Dale
Category Development, Mobile, Technology
Category Development, Mobile, Technology
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.
