Flash
The Frugal Geek's Guide to Conference Crashing
Conferences are expensive... they assume you work for a stacked megacorporation that believes the fastest path to increasing their shareholder value is investing in your individual career training. If your employer is not having a great year or has had a surge of resignations from last year's crew of esteemed conference goers, chances are that you won't be getting reimbursed to attend your local geek-fest.
Turbocharging Performance with Caching
This is the third installation of my Flex Mobile series. In my first post I talked about multitouch, and my second post I dug in on how to control the soft keyboard. This post goes into detail on performance, specifically caching.
Taking Control of the Flex Soft Keyboard
This is part 2 of my Flex Mobile series. Please see my first post for information on getting started.
Flash Android Touch Checker
This is the first in a 3 part blog series I am doing on Flash Mobile technology. With the release of Flash Builder 4.5, Flash and Flex now have support for building mobile applications that target Android and, with an update coming out on 6/20, also iPhone and Blackberry devices. In my opinion, this is now the best platform for building cross-platform mobile applications available today.
OSCON Java, The Java Open Source Conference
It is pretty easy to get lost in the media hype around the Java events of the past year. If you follow the headlines, you might believe that all the Java talent left Oracle in a mass exodus, Larry hates open source, or Java is turning into the next COBOL. Regardless of the factual correctness of these headlines, the Java ecosystem is about more than a single company or set of individuals. Java has the largest open-source community of any language in existence!
Flash Capability Reporter Sample and Video
The folks at Marakana did a great job hosting the recent Flash Android event, as well as recording and publishing the talk. As a fellow user group leader, I can appreciate the hard work that went into preparing the video, including some fine editing and splicing by Max Walker (the presentation was not as flawless as he made it look!)
Beginning Flash at the SF Android UG
One of my coauthors on the upcoming Pro Android Flash title, Oswald Campesato, and I had the pleasure of speaking to the San Francisco Android User Group. It was a packed audience with around 150 eager Android developers who wanted to hear how they could use Flash on their devices (they were a great audience). Here is what some of them had to say about the meetup: Alec Dara-Abrams Stephen and Oswald gave a very good over view of Flash development on Android. Like a number of other SF Android speakers, packing the hour or so with the right level of technical detail. Thanks to them also for being responsive to audience questions - not so easy I'd guess with 100+ people out there past the lighting for the video. I'm looking forward to following Stephen's blog. Drew Dara-Abrams Stephen and Oswald gave a good overview of the current state of Flash on Android. Unfortunately the Adobe tools and their book won't be out until spring, but I appreciated all the working examples of code that Stephen demonstrated. I'll definitely look for their book when it comes out. Francisco Carretero Looks like an incredibly useful topic for android for giving android that push to the next level. As I promised folks in the audience, here is a copy of the full presentation. Lots of this information was added very recently from different chapters in our book, so it is definitely the latest and greatest source of information on what you can do with Flash on mobile devices:
"Flash On..." Group Kicked Off!
We did a double header meeting in the North and South bay to kick off the Flash On group. It was a lot of work to coordinate and present back-to-back meetings, but it all came together. A big thanks to my co-presenter Oswald Campesator, my co-coordinators Keith Sutton and Justin Webb, and also, Nick Turner, from Plug and Play's Mobile Meetup, who did an outstanding job on Thursday evening.
Flash On... Meetup Premiere
I am pleased to announce the Flash On... user group that I am kicking off together with Keith Sutton, Oswald Campesato, and Justin Webb. The focus is Flash on consumer devices from Mobile to Tablet to TV.
New Blog Categories... JavaFX, Agile, and Flash
For those of you following my blog, I have setup some top level categories and matching subdomains to make easier to get just the information you need.
Flash Android Development at Code Camp
I haven't talked much about Flash technology on my blog, but we use quite a bit of Flash/Flex for developing enterprise apps at my day job. With the Open Screen Project from Adobe making Flash available on mobile and embedded devices, Flash has become a viable cross-platform toolkit fulfilling a lot of what I hoped JavaFX Mobile would become.