.: Blog.FlashGen.Com :: Mike Jones - Flash Platform Evangelist :. http://blog.flashgen.com An infrequent look at developments in the world of the Flash Platform by Mike Jones - Flash Platform Consultant Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:30:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gifSome Rights ReservedFlashgenhttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes Only A Few Weeks Left For Adobe MAX Award Submissions http://blog.flashgen.com/2010/07/22/only-a-few-weeks-left-for-adobe-max-award-submissions/ http://blog.flashgen.com/2010/07/22/only-a-few-weeks-left-for-adobe-max-award-submissions/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:23:14 +0000 Mike Jones submissions awards submit weeks dally 2010 59pm left submissions awards submit weeks dally 2010 59pm left http://blog.flashgen.com/?p=680

For those of you who are still wondering whether or not to submit your work for the MAX Awards 2010 you only have a few weeks left. Submissions close on Friday 13th August 2010, at 11:59pm PST, so don’t dally. Head over there and register right now! To learn more about the MAX awards and submit your work click here.

Remember, you’ve got to be in it to win it :)

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Earlier in the month I blogged about the up and coming Adobe Intel Application Lab event at the Adobe offices in San Francisco. If you are like me and don’t happen to live in the bay area but really wanted to attend, don’t worry. We’ve created a connect room and will be broadcasting the event. So if you can’t make it in person but would love to attend virtually, then point your browsers to http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/applab and enjoy the event in the comfort of your own home / office or in the case of us Europeans, probably bed.

It is a West Coast evening event so times are in PST (Pacific Standard Time) as I jokingly mentioned it will be the middle of the night for a lot of us. However I’m sure the recordings will be on AdobeTV very soon after the event, so don’t feel you have to stay up half the night to attend – although it’d be cool to see you all there :). The sessions covered and the times they will be broadcast via Connect are below:

Agenda (all times in PST)

  • 5:30 PM – Flash Platform Services Overview (Adobe)
  • 6:00 PM – Intel AppUp Center Business Model and Opportunity (Intel)
  • 7:00 PM – Technical Deep Dive (Adobe)
  • 8:30 PM – Staffed Open Lab (Adobe and Intel)

If you’re not sure what time these session commence where you’re located you can check your local time compared to PST here

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If you’re in the Bay area on July 21st and you want to know more about Adobe AIR, then this is an event you won’t want to miss. Aimed at those of you who are currently developing or looking to develop AIR applications with a focus of monetizing your efforts. The event is being held at the Adobe office at 601 Townsend street (click here for map information)

If you are an AIR developer who has been looking for an easy way to reach millions of users and make money, join us for this joint Adobe – Intel event. Learn more about what Adobe and Intel are doing to help you distribute and monetize your AIR applications. We will talk about the business opportunity and how you can take advantage of the service immediately.

This is a late afternoon / evening event so you don’t have to take out time from your whole working day to attend. The event is free, but you do need to register. The agenda is as follows:

Agenda

  • 4:45 PM – Registration Begins
  • 5:00 PM – Beer & Pizza Served
  • 5:30 PM – Flash Platform Services Overview (Adobe)
  • 6:00 PM – Intel AppUp Center Business Model and Opportunity (Intel)
  • 7:00 PM – Technical Deep Dive (Adobe)
  • 8:30 PM – Staffed Open Lab (Adobe and Intel)

To register head over to the Adobe Intel Application lab event page on Adobe.com

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In a little over two weeks I’ll be speaking at Flash Camp Manchester, which is a first for me as I’ve never been to Manchester so I’m really looking forward to it. For those who are considering attending there are some great speakers and sessions.

I will be presenting a session entitled “Developing with your inner designer” where I’ll be looking at how you can harness Flash Professional CS5, Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4 to improve your designer / developer workflow. There will be some code, but for the first time in a very long time I’ll be focusing on the abilities of each of these products and where you can leverage their core strengths.

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My friend and colleague Mark Doherty will be there talking about Flash and AIR on mobile and devices, Edwin van Rijkom will be giving an introduction to OSMF (the Open Source media Framework). Michael Plank from Powerflasher will also be there showing you how to improve your coding workflow with FDT. Anthony and Jeremy Ribot will be discussing the current state of mobile UX and Seb Lee-Delisle rounds the day out with a ‘space busting’ Papervision 3D session.

The overall session shapes up as follows:

12:00 Registration
13:00 Keynote
13:45 Break
14:00 Introducing the Open Source Media Framework – >Edwin van Rijkom 
14:45 Break
15:00 Developing with your inner designer – Mike Jones
15:45 Break
16:00 Set your code on fire – Michael Plank
16:45 Break
17:00 The current state of mobile UX – Anthony & Jeremy Ribot
17:45 Break
18:00 Mobile Flash and AIR 2 on mobile – Mark Doherty
18:45 Break
19:00 Space Invading – Seb Lee-Delisle
19:45 Prize Draw
20:00 To the pub…

So don’t delay register now and we’ll see you there. Plus if you’re around Friday morning Mark and myself will be holding a Flash Coffee event near Manchester Oxford Road railway station – sign up if you wish to attend as places are limited

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Hot on the heels of Flash Coffee London we’re adding Flash Coffee Manchester to the list. If you’re not sure what a Flash Coffee meetup is you can get more info here. I’m looking at Event / Calendar plugins for my blog so you can see all of the events both here and around the rest of Europe straight away.

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So come along and join myself and Mark Doherty for the second of the UK Flash Coffee events. Places are limited so be sure to sign up straight away if you want to attend. We have various prizes to raffle off one at each event so register, turn up and you could be leaving with more than a double shot non-caff soya mocha latte :p.

Keep an eye on http://bit.ly/flcoffee for more dates. not only in the UK, but across the rest of Europe.

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Love Coffee? Love Flash? Love hanging with like minded individuals to shoot the breeze on technology and gadgets? Then why not combine all of this and join the Flash Platform Evangelists for a chat over a a free ‘cup of Joe’.

These meetups are informal and small, taking place at various coffee shops in Europe as we travel around. Maybe you have some questions about your favourite tools, or want to see your applications running on Android devices? ?

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So come along and join myself and Mark Doherty for the first of the UK Flash Coffee events, kicking it off in London next week. Places are limited so be sure to sign up straight away if you want to attend. We have various prizes to raffle off one at each event so register, turn up and you could be leaving with more than a double shot non-caff soya mocha latte :p.

The current locations we have planned are detailed below, but if you’d like us to hold a Flash Coffee event near you let us know (put the location in your comments) and we’ll see what we can do :)

Keep an eye on http://bit.ly/flcoffee for more dates. not only in the UK, but across the rest of Europe?.

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For all you developers and designers out there who like to play the odd hand of cards, you’ll be excited to hear that Poker Coder 8 – London has been announced and will be on Tuesday 13th July at the Loose Cannons casino.

There are loads of prizes to be won and don’t forget the top ten players get a winners t-shirt; and the first ten out of the tournament get the now coveted Loser t-shirts. Don’t worry if you’ve never played poker before as there is a ten minute orientation game for those who have yet to get the bug.This is a free no money tournament and you’ll need to be quick though as places are limited and go very quickly.

There are only 100 places for this event so you’ll need to be quick. To find out more and register head over to the Poker Coder site

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If you missed out on any or all of the Build an app in a week web seminars that the EMEA Platform Evangelism team held last week, worry not. Below are all of the recordings for you to watch as many times as you wish. You don’t need any special software or app installed to view these beyond Flash Player.

The sessions are based around an application called EVA that the EMEA team are developing so you can get a real feel for how the Flash Platform designer to developer workflow can be leveraged to make creating rich engaging content easier.

If you enjoy these then head over to the Adobe Flash Platform Events page and have a look at all of the other recordings.

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    Like good old London red buses, you’re waiting for ages for one to come along, then two come at once. However I’m not talking about buses here. No, I’m excited about something completely different – I’m referring to Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0. Both of which are now available for download! I’ve already done a quick post about Flash Player 10.1 so it only follows to do the same for AIR 2.0 (so here it is).

    There are some superb enhancements and additions to AIR 2.0 and you can read about them in depth over at the AIR teams blog post, but before you do here are some of the highlights (you can read the full list here):

    • Enhanced support for interacting with printers
    • Support for TLS/SSL socket communication
    • Support for the detection of mass storage devices.
    • Advanced networking capabilities like secure sockets, UDP support, and the ability to listen on sockets.
    • Support for native code integration.
    • The ability to open a file with its default application.
    • Multi-touch and gesture support.
    • New APIs for access to raw microphone data.
    • WebKit update with HTML5/CSS3 support.
    • Global error handling.
    • Improved cross-platform printing.
    • Improved security and support for enterprise and government standards.

    You can install AIR 2.0 now by heading to the AIR download page.

    ]]>     http://blog.flashgen.com/2010/06/11/air-2-0-for-the-desktop-released/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/     Flash Player 10.1 For Desktop Released http://blog.flashgen.com/2010/06/11/flash-player-10-1-for-desktop-released/ http://blog.flashgen.com/2010/06/11/flash-player-10-1-for-desktop-released/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:36:45 +0000 Mike Jones player coverage depth teams released alternatively head linux http://blog.flashgen.com/?p=637

    Today is a great day. Flash Player 10.1 is finally released for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux! Head over to the Flash Player teams blog for more in-depth coverage of what’s included in this release as there are some really cool updates in there. Here are some of the cool new features in Flash Player 10.1 (see the full list here):

    • Global error handler
    • Globalization support
    • Browser privacy mode
    • Out-of-memory management
    • Content protection
    • Peer-assisted networking
    • HTTP Dynamic Streaming
    • Stream reconnect
    • Smart seek
    • Buffered stream catch-up
    • Fast switch
    • Microphone access
    • Dynamic frame rate

    Alternatively head over to the Flash Player page on Adobe.com and grab Flash Player 10.1 now!!!

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