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Adobe’s Falcon JS: Compile Flex code to HTML and Javascript

By tim, on November 16th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has issued further information about its intention to donate the Flex SDK, which builds Flash applications from XML and ActionScript, to the Apache Software Foundation. Specifically, the donation will include:

BlazeDS, the free version of LiveCycle Data Services Falcon, the new Flex compiler due to be completed in 2012 Falcon JS, a previously unannounced

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Adobe favours HTML over Flex, retreats from its enterprise app platform

By tim, on November 15th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has stated that Flex, the xml-based language for developing applications that run on the Flash runtime (also known as AIR) will gradually give way to HTML 5:

In the long-term, we believe HTML5 will be the best technology for enterprise application development. We also know that, currently, Flex has clear benefits for large-scale client

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What next for Adobe Flash? Think runtime not plugin

By tim, on November 9th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe is stating that mobile Flash will no longer be developed:

Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new

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Adobe “shifting its business model”: more publishing, less programming

By tim, on November 9th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has announced a shift in its business strategy, together with the loss of around 750 employees.

So what is changing? Adobe says it will be focusing on digital media and digital marketing, while investing less in “certain enterprise solution product lines.” In line with this strategy, Adobe acquired video advertising company auditude last week.

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Adobe MAX 2011 and the future of Flash

By tim, on October 14th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

The unstated theme of Adobe MAX 2011 last week was this: what is the future of Flash? The issue being that with HTML 5 ascendant and Apple wrecking the idea of Flash as an ubiquitous web plug-in, should Adobe be frantically retooling its design tools for HTML and apps, or does Flash still have a

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Adobe: no new features for open source BlazeDS data services

By tim, on October 11th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe’s Damon Cooper, who runs the BlazeDS and Data Services team at Adobe, has posted about BlazeDS vs the paid-for Data Services.

It is a curious post, in that he simultaneously highlights new features coming in Data Services 4.6 while also giving a number of reasons not to use BlazeDS.

BlazeDS is the free and

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Adobe Flash Professional to get HTML authoring features

By tim, on October 5th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I have just attended a session on the future of Flash Professional, the designer-oriented authoring tool for Flash, here at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles.

One feature that caught my attention is that export to HTML is coming to Flash Professional. Adobe already has a research project called Project Wallaby which converts .fla files to

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Sneak Peeks at Adobe MAX 2011 … and that annoying updater

By tim, on October 5th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

The Sneaks session at Adobe MAX is always fun as well as giving some insight into what is coming from the company, though note that these are research projects and there is no guarantee that any will make it into products.

This time we also got commentary from Rainn Wilson, an actor in the

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Developers keen to get apps on Barnes & Noble Nook

By tim, on October 4th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I took a quick look round the exhibition here at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, and was intrigued to see crowds round the Barnes & Noble Nook stand, a newcomer to Max.

Barnes & Noble has its own app store for Color Nook, the AIR runtime is on the device, and in fact is

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