Peter Elst

Looking back at Flex@Beach

Peter — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:13:48 +0000

Yesterday, myself and two colleagues from Project Cocoon made it out to Chennai for Flex@Beach. I did not really know what to expect from the event but was happily surprised about the turnout and excitement around Flex and Flash Platform technology in general. There was a lot of focus on frameworks and architecture as well [...] No related posts.

Flash Player 10.1 performance on mobile

Peter — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:45:19 +0000

Recently James Ward, Technical Evangelist at Adobe, did a video showing performance of Flex running on the Google Nexus One in Flash Player 10.1. Consider that myth about Flash Player performance not being up to scratch for use on a certain mobile device well and truly busted! No related posts. No related posts.

Project Cocoon has a new office

Peter — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:13:00 +0000

Earlier today we went to sign the agreement and left a deposit on the new Project Cocoon Multimedia apartments/office space in Colas Nagar, Pondicherry. We’ve now got ourselves a nice three story building that gives us enough space to have client meetings, organize training events and even have freelance developers over to work on projects as [...] No related posts.

AIR 2 beta 2 – new printing features

Peter — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:49:34 +0000

In case you missed it — AIR 2 beta 2 is now available on labs.adobe.com and among a bunch of other things there are now some really cool additional printing features that give you a lot more control than what we used to have. Be sure to check out the video interview Ryan Stewart did with [...] No related posts.

Trying out the iPad browsing experience

Peter — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:56:12 +0000

I did a little experiment this morning, disabling plug-ins in my browser aka “the iPad experience”. See where things start to break down? The Apple iPad web browsing experience, not quite what you expect. Yes, there are native apps for a number of these sites (social gaming on Facebook anyone?) I’m specifically talking about the [...] No related posts.

Apple’s idea of the best web browsing experience

Peter — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:53:21 +0000

Just hours after the product got announced, a lot has already been said and written about the Apple iPad and I don’t particularly feel I have a lot to add except for that “one more thing”. I’ve been working almost exclusively on Mac for about five years now and its a decision I’ve never regretted. One [...] No related posts.

I’m auctioning שָׁלוֹם.com for Haiti disaster relief

Peter — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:49:11 +0000

When Internationalized Domain Names became available last year, I jumped on the bandwagon and registered a couple. One of these is שָׁלוֹם.com (Shalom as written in Hebrew). I’ve not done anything with it since and thought it would be a good way to raise money for Haiti disaster relief. I’m holding a blind auction, if you [...] No related posts.

Why you should attend Flash and the City

Peter — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:08:19 +0000

There’s another new conference coming this year and thats always exciting, but Flash and the City promises to be different. Not only is this the first major Flash conference in NYC in quite a while, its going to be an amazing opportunity to network and meet interesting people. Why so? Well rather than just sit inside [...] No related posts.

AS3 Signals – the best thing since sliced bread

Peter — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:25:24 +0000

If you haven’t heard about Robert Penner’s AS3 Signals yet, you’re missing out. Until yesterday I had only briefly looked at the project but after John Lindquist’s video tutorial I’m completely sold on the idea and look forward to using it in my projects. So what is AS3 Signals suppose to do for you? [...] No related posts.

The black box that is the Flash Player

Peter — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:09:17 +0000

This morning I read an interesting blog post by John Dowdell highlighting some things that bothered me in the last week or so (and talked about on twitter). We’ve been seeing some sensationalist headlines on tech blogs like “Open Source JavaScript to Replace Flash?” without seemingly any understanding of the (all be it incredibly cool) project [...] No related posts.