Flash 10.1 mobile roadmap confusion, Windows phone support far off

By tim, on March 2nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

When is the right moment to buy a mobile phone? Usually the answer is not quite yet; and that seems to the case if you want to be sure of support for Flash Player 10.1, the first full version of the runtime to run on mobile devices. Adobe recently struck off support for Windows Mobile

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March 2nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: adobe, flash, mobile, silverlight, windows | Leave a comment

Fragmentation and the RIA wars: Flash is the least bad solution

By tim, on February 25th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

The latest salvo in the Adobe Flash wars comes from the Free Software Foundation, in an open letter to Google:

Just think what you can achieve by releasing the VP8 codec under an irrevocable royalty-free license and pushing it out to users on YouTube? You can end the web’s dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and proprietary

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February 25th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: .net, adobe, apple, google, microsoft, silverlight | 9 comments

Flash developers are now mobile developers

By tim, on February 15th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe’s announcement of AIR for mobile today at the Mobile World Congress means that any Flash or Flex developer can compile an AIR application that will run on a supported mobile device. I understand that AIR for mobile is a subset of desktop AIR, but does include Flash Player 10.1, local database support with SQLite,

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February 15th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: adobe, apple, flash, mobile | One comment

Pros and cons of Adobe’s LiveCycle services in the cloud

By tim, on February 8th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has fully released LiveCycle Managed Services, offering a hosted platform for LiveCycle applications. The software is configured and managed by Adobe, but runs on Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) virtual servers.

LiveCycle is a suite of applications which I think of as two things combined. On the one hand, it forms a server platform for

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February 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: adobe, cloud computing, flash, software development | Leave a comment

Adobe Flash getting faster on the Mac

By tim, on February 4th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

According to Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch:

Flash Player on Windows has historically been faster than the Mac, and it is for the most part the same code running in Flash for each operating system. We have and continue to invest significant effort to make Mac OS optimizations to close this gap, and Apple has been helpful

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February 4th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: adobe, apple, internet, web authoring, windows | Leave a comment

Adobe Flash vs Apple iPad: RIA in the balance

By tim, on February 1st, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe evangelist Lee Brimelow has posted some images of well-known sites that break if Adobe Flash is not enabled. His point: if Apple’s iPad does not support Flash, none of these sites will work correctly.

While true in the short term, I do not think this is an effective line of argument. 

Let’s presume that you

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February 1st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: adobe, apple, flash, microsoft, oracle | 4 comments

Joining the Smartphone dots

By tim, on January 5th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Google has made a big splash with its launch of Nexus One, even though technically it is not all that exciting. A neat phone; 1 Ghz Qualcomm processor; runs Android 2.1; good for web video with its inclusion of Adobe Flash 10.1, along with the ability to

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January 5th, 2010 | Category: adobe, apple, google, internet, iphone, itunes, microsoft, mobile | One comment

A year of blogging: another crazy year in tech

By tim, on December 31st, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

At this time of year I allow myself a little introspection. Why do I write this blog? In part because I enjoy it; in part because it lets me write what I want to write, rather than what someone will commission; in part because I need to be visible on the Internet as an individual,

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December 31st, 2009 | Category: .net, Sun, adobe, apple, blogging, exchange, flash, google, internet, microsoft, oracle, silverlight, software development, visual studio, web authoring, windows | One comment

Adobe financials and the future of packaged software

By tim, on December 16th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I listened to Adobe’s investor conference call yesterday following the release of its fourth quarter results, to the end of November 2009.

The results themselves were mixed at best: revenue was down in all segments year on year and there was a $32 million GAAP net loss, but Adobe reported an “up-tick” towards the end of

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December 16th, 2009 | Category: adobe, cloud computing, internet, web authoring | Leave a comment

Google Gears out, HTML 5 in: what this means for offline web apps

By tim, on December 1st, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I was interested to read that Google is abandoning Gears in favour of HTML 5.

While that makes sense, it is a hassle for developers who have developed for Gears, since there are differences between features such as HTML 5 local storage and Gears LocalServer. The Gears API was tidy and effective so in some ways

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December 1st, 2009 | Category: adobe, cloud computing, flash, google, microsoft, silverlight, web authoring | Leave a comment
 
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