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
Device Central is going through some significant changes and improvements to cater for a Flash Platform that is maturing and growing across multiple screens. In this episode, we take a look at an early pre-release version of Device Central CS5 and some of the new features particularly around Device Profiles.
I’m hoping to bring some more video tutorials on Device Central CS5 in the new year, as it progresses through the beta phase. I also have one more video to deliver in this current Flash Lite series, so stay tuned!
It’s been a busy production week this week (actually there’s a few weeks like this coming as I wind up this initial set of videos!), with a new video just having been added to the “Developing with Flash Lite” series – “Flash in the Mobile Browser“.
More and more web traffic is being generated from smartphones and mobile devices, so it’s becoming increasingly important to consider how Flash content is consumed through the mobile web browser. In this episode we look at the ways Flash exists in various mobile browsers and what implications it has on how consumers interact with your Flash content.
In upcoming episodes we’ll be looking at Platform Services with Nokia devices, Flash Lite performance tips, Flash for the Digital Home, and even a sneak peek at Device Central CS5, so stay tuned.
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.
