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

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 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

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

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

PDC day two: Silverlight 4 and a free laptop

By tim, on November 19th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

There were two big themes at PDC in Los Angeles today. One was the Silverlight 4 beta, the subject of the most impressive section at the keynote. The other was the announcement of free laptops for every attendee – aside from press and government. It is remarkable how a generous gift can change the atmosphere.

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November 19th, 2009 | Category: adobe, flash, microsoft, silverlight, software development | 6 comments

Web advertising goes outside: digital signage using force.com and Media RSS

By tim, on October 23rd, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

In the last 10 years or so video advertising screens have replaced static posters in busy public places like the London Underground. This is known in the trade as digital signage or Digital Out of Home (DOOH) advertising; and I was interested to speak to a company at the recent Salesforce.com Service Cloud 2 launch

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October 23rd, 2009 | Category: adobe, cloud computing, flash, internet, salesforce.com | Leave a comment

The Sneak Peeks at Adobe MAX 09

By tim, on October 11th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I was looking for a list of the Sneak Peeks shown at last week’s Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles. I couldn’t find one quickly, so here is mine. Note that these are billed as experimental features that may never ship.

Thin client gaming: this is a kind of application virtualisation. We saw a 3D game

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October 11th, 2009 | Category: adobe, flash, web authoring | 3 comments

Adobe’s chameleon Flash shows its enterprise colours

By tim, on October 7th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Duane Nickull is Senior Technical Evangelist at Adobe and co-author of Web 2.0 Architectures which I reviewed recently. He is also Duane Chaos of grunge band 22nd Century and entertained us at the Adobe MAX party last night in Los Angeles.

It’s appropriate that he works for Adobe, whose Flash runtime has parallel chameleon characteristics. Most

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October 7th, 2009 | Category: adobe, agile, flash, software development | 4 comments
 
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