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After Hours with the Tokyo Flex User Group

I took some quick video after our talk at the Tokyo Flex User Group. It was a great event with really good turnout. In addition to the talk Mike an...

CS4 - A developer’s new best friend

I’m going to make a confession. As a Platform Evangelist, I didn’t always do a great job of pitching CS3. It makes pretty much all the ...

Adobe AIR in Japanese

Mike and I got to Tokyo last night, had some Udon for dinner, and then checked out a book store near our hotel. The books in Japan are about 100% c...

Looking at the CS4 Release from a Developer Perspective

So we officially announced CS4 today. Mostly this is just an unveiling of the suite configurations, the branding, and some marketing stuff. But we&...

Next Generation Adobe Platform Mini Tour in Asia

Mike and I are leaving tomorrow on a mini tour of Asia and we’ll be showing off a bunch of very cool stuff that you’ll be able to get y...

Adobe AIR for Linux Beta is Out

This happened yesterday morning while I was on an airplane, but it’s still great to see. We’ve released an updated beta of Adobe AIR fo...

An Example of Adobe’s Openness Beyond the Developer World

I’ve been doing some big thinking (read: way above my pay grade) about Adobe’s role in the open web, why we don’t seem to get muc...

Win a Trip to MAX by Submitting AIR Tips and Code

If you aren’t registered for MAX yet and you want to go, why not try for a free ticket by submitting some AIR tips to the Adobe AIR Cookbook....

Sprouts - The Best Thing to Happen to Flex Since Matt Chotin

Thanks to Simeon, I’ve completely fallen in love with the Sprouts project. Luke Bayes, one of the co-creators, is awesome and has been great ...

Birth of a Platform: 25 Million AIR Application Installs and 850k SDK Downloads

It’s been really cool to have gotten to join Adobe just as AIR was entering prerelease and then watch the actual release happen. Throw in cra...

Why I Love the Linux Community

My Mac Book Pro is dead and I’m waiting for a part so I was left without my primary development machine which is kind of a pain in the ass. M...

Great Interview with Chuck Geschke About the History of Adobe

There is a really, really good interview with Chuck Geschke, one of the two founders of Adobe, in Knowledge@Wharton this week. He goes through a bu...

Get your CS4 On

Adobe has officially announced the announcement date of Creative Suite 4 (you know it’s a big deal when they announce an announcement). On Se...

Online/Offline Synchronization with Adobe AIR, ColdFusion and LCDS

I gave a talk at 360|Flex on how to use the new features in LiveCycle Data Services 2.6 to handle online/offline synchronization with your AIR...

Thinking about Google Chrome from a Flash/AIR Perspective

There’s been a lot of good talk about Google Chrome and what it means for the web. I actually like Chris Messina’s take a lot partly be...

Update on the Fleximagically Searchable Flex SEO Contest

Back in July I announced the Flex SEO contest and said I was going to give out some prizes based on certain rules. The goal was to find out what tr...

Cool 3D-Album Component for Flex

Marcus Schiesser dropped me a note about a PicLens-esque Flex component he created that lets you zoom in and out of a canvas of photos. I’ve ...

Building Collaboration Into Your Web Apps

TechCrunch UK has a blog post up about Collaboration Web Apps that will help you beat the econonmy-related tightening purse strings of the corporat...

Interview with Ben Stucki on OpenFlux

At 360Flex I took a bit to interview Ben Stucki on OpenFlux, a project that he describes as a little bit of Flex 4 for Flex 3. You can see the inte...

Mark Anders Thermo Demo from 360|Flex

Ted just posted a video of the day 1 keynote at 360|Flex in which Mark Anders shows off Thermo as well as FXG and Flash Player 10. It’s ...

Adobe AIR as “PDF of Web 2.0?

I love watching people discover AIR for the first time and give some thought to what it really means. We’ve gotten a lot of traction with AIR...

Live GPS Data with Merapi and Adobe AIR

One of the coolest demos from 360|Flex was watching Jordan Snyder hook up Merapi and Adobe AIR and use an AIR application to control a remote ...

What Do You Think About The Current Adobe AIR Certificate Situation?

I was watching Craig Cmehil’s Friday morning report and he said a lot of really good things about AIR. Craig is a big fan and it’s alwa...

360Flex - Now With More Awesome

I’ve been in a weird mood lately (notice how my blogs have gotten a bit quieter) so part of me was dreading 360|Flex. It’s always ...

Get All of the 360Flex Sessions on AMP

Ted just blogged about the fact that you can grab all of the sessions from 360|Flex and watch them inside of AMP. I haven’t had a chance...

Video Interview: Simeon Bateman on Ruby and Flex

While at OSCON a couple of weeks ago I interviewed Simeon Bateman about Ruby and Flex. Simeon is a long time Flex developer and has given a few pre...

Be In the MAX Keynote

Ted is giving anyone out there a chance to be in the MAX Keynote. We’re creating a video to play at the keynotes in North America, Europe, an...

What ECMAScript “Harmony” Means for Flash Developers

There has been a lot of good coverage about the announcement that the ECMAScript committee is going to stop working on ECMAScript 4 and instead foc...

Getting Ready for My 360 Flex Presentation in Style

I’m giving my Online/Offline Synchronization with Adobe AIR and LCDS presentation at 360Flex next week and I had a couple of things I wanted ...

Video Interview: Juan Sanchez on Degrafa

Degrafa is one of the more interesting open source projects in the Flex community. While visiting EffectiveUI in Denver I sat down and interviewed ...

Gone Fishin’

Just a quick note that I’m going backpacking today and tomorrow so I won’t be in cell/email signal. We’re going to climb Wetterho...

Flash Player 10 Mac/Win/Linux Release Candidate Now Available

The Release Candidate build for Flash Player 10 on Linux (And every other platform) is now available for you to go grab and check out. A bunch of n...

The “War” Between Flash and HTML/Ajax

There is a pretty good rundown of the RIA space and HTML versus Flash/Silverlight on CNet today. If you read through the comments a lot of people t...

Design an Awesome Flex Skin and win a MacBook Air (Plus Other Stuff)

Juan Sanchez and the crew are putting on the Skin to Win Challenge sponsored by EffectiveUI and Adobe. We want to see some really great themes and ...

8 Useful AIR Applications that Work in Linux

MakeUseOf.com posted a list of 8 AIR apps that work under the Linux alpha of Adobe AIR. There are a few features still missing in the alpha but the...

Balsamiq AIR Application - $10,000 in Revenue in 6 Weeks

I missed this last week but Marshall Kirkpatrick has a blog post up about Balsamiq, a mockup creator tool that was built using AIR. the video (belo...

Deep-linking for Flex SEO

I’m planning on doing a Flex SEO contest update this week but I haven’t gotten around to it. Partly because so far I haven’t been...

Flex-based Babble.com Raises Funding

Babbel.com, a Flex application built to help people learn a new language, just sent me an email saying they’ve raised their first round of fu...

The Desktop as a Revenue Growth Opportunity

AOL is shutting down a bunch of properties. Frankly, AOL is probably not the kind of company you look to when you think of leading edge. But they&#...

PlayCrafter.com - Finally Flex has Sweet Games!

Rob just sent me a link to PlayCrafter which is a suite of games built entirely in Flex 3. It’s a really cool, customized example of a Flex a...

AMP Adds Sony Content (And you can Watch Ghostbusters)

Heh. I always love when I find out stuff we’re doing by clicking on a Techmeme link. I must not have been paying attention, but it looks like...

Couple of Good Skinning With Flex 4 Blog Posts

Juan Sanchez took the weekend to check out some of the new skinning capabilities in Gumbo (Flex 4). The first one is kind of an intro and compares ...

More Hulu HD Content Online: Go Watch Dr. Horrible Now

Some good news on the HD Flash front: Hulu added a lot more content to its HD gallery. It’s an excellent showcase for very high quality Flash...

RIAJobs.org For All Your RIA Employment Needs

I should have posted this a long time ago for a couple of reasons but if you haven’t seen it, you should check out RIAJobs.org. It’s a ...

How to Completely Uninstall an AIR Application

I was having a problem with TweetDeck in that it kept giving me an error when I tried to log out and log in as a new user. Unfortunately uninstalli...

Aurora is F-ing Awesome and Completely Available Today with Flash

Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo. Aurora is a new “inspire” concept by Adaptive Path and Mozilla to give people a look at wh...

Flex Stock Widgets

Widgets Lab noticed that Wikinvest has released some interactive stock charts and that they look like they’re built in Flex. I’m a big ...

Interview With Kevin Lynch

Om Malik has a small interview with Kevin Lynch about a bunch of things Adobe is doing. There isn’t a whole lot there that people following t...

Creating Transparent Native Windows with the mx:Window Class

Holy hell. I’ve been tearing my hair out all night trying to figure out how to make a fully transparent and chrome-less native window using t...

Is Flash Getting Too Complicated?

As I’ve mentioned before, I didn’t come from the Flash world. I got hooked on the Macromedia juice via ColdFusion and Flex. I was alway...

Good AIR Write-up in Linux Journal

There’s a pretty good write-up on AIR for Linux developers in Linux Journal. It goes through most of the intro stuff to AIR that you should b...

Getting AIR Applications Running in Ubuntu 64bit

J Wynia posted a pretty good (if semi-hacky) tutorial on how to get AIR applications running in Ubuntu 64. Like every other 64 bit question aimed a...

Interviewing Chuck about Ribbit’s $105 Million Acquisition

I’m interviewing Chuck for the next 10 minutes to ask him some questions about their $105 million acquisition by BT and how it will affect de...

Flex Next! - FXG, New States, and More: the Gumbo Has Landed

A few minutes ago we posted a new build of the Flex SDK which includes a lot of the stuff we’re doing for Flex Next. This is your first chanc...

Garmin Using Adobe AIR for the Tour de France

I’ve been waiting and hoping for Garmin to do an Adobe AIR application (I’ve even tried lobbying our lighthouse program to reach out to...

Anyone Going to the Enterprise UI Summit?

While perusing around the internets I found out about the Enterprise UI Summit which is taking place August 7-8 in Aspen, Colorado. It sounds both ...

Updated Flash Penetration Numbers: Flash 9 at 97% and update 3 at 82%

According to Justin Everett-Church we have new penetration numbers as of yesterday. It’s great to see Flash Player 9 do so well, but most sig...

The Two Most Interesting Geeky Blogs at Adobe

I think I’ve talked about this before, but if you’re new to Adobe and you’re a geeks geek then there are two employee blogs that ...

BitMaker - Desktop Interface for bit.ly using AIR

Update 2: Just uploaded a new version that includes the ability to drag and drop a bit.ly URL and get a Pie chart with the source information. Done...

Help Contribute to Flex, Win Fabulous Prizes

The Flex Team is looking to get the community involved in the Flex Framework. When we open sourced Flex we did so in part because we thought that t...

Adobe Flash Player 10 on Linux: “One Heck of a Beta”

One of the things I like about Adobe is that we’ve gotten better about our Linux releases as we’ve gotten more open. For those that don...

Announcing the Flex SEO Contest

Peter Elst has a really good post up (with some concerns) about SWF Indexing in some of his Flash files. And it’s clear that a lot is changin...

Great Opportunity to Get Flex/AIR Training from the Best

Two of the best guys out there when it comes to teaching are going to be providing a cheap Flex and AIR Training Session July 19th and 20th. Mike K...

CS3 and Web 2.0 Icon Generator on Adobe AIR

I came across this cool little application built on AIR that lets you generate a CS3 or Web 2.0 style icon. They seem to have gotten the fonts corr...

PassPack Desktop Client Built on AIR

PassPack is a service that lets you store a bunch of passwords for safe keeping so that you don’t have to remember them - something that can ...

How Our Special Flash Player for Google and Yahoo Actually Works

I told everyone that our community was smart and that they’d figure out how the our search engine Flash Player works. It looks like Doug McCu...

FlashLite Ported to the iPhone? Sort of.

David from AgencyNet sent me this link this morning which describes FlashLite being ported to the iPhone. It actually sits on top of something call...

Adobe Reader 9 Now Shipping With AIR Bundled

Adobe Reader 9 is now available for download. There’s a lot of new stuff in Reader 9 including native Flash support and faster load up time. ...

How to Get Your Flash Site at the Top of Google

Update: This post from Google provides a lot of good info. I’m not sure I made this clear in my previous post so I’m going to try here....

Finally, Flash Becomes Truly Searchable

Update 2: Google posts about the new stuff and sheds some light on what will and won’t be indexed. (Props to Brian for the link) Update: I di...

Using LiveCycle Data Services 2.6 Inside of ColdFusion 8

By default, ColdFusion 8 comes with LCDS 2.5. But there’s a lot of new, good stuff in LCDS 2.6 that might be good to take advantage of if you...

Mark your Calendars for July 11th: Adobe RedMonk SAP Enterprisey Nanoconference

Are you interested in how RIAs fit into the enterprise? Are you going to be in London July 11th? If so, then you should swing by Adobe’s offi...

Another Good List of the “Best” AIR Apps

Kevin Nunez posted about some of the “Best” AIR applications he’s come across. It’s a pretty good list that’s divided...

Creating AIR Applications with Custom Chrome

One of the nice things about AIR is that it lets you break out of the browser and create any kind of application experience you want. as part of Ad...

Use Flex to Trick out your MySpace Page

I don’t spend a lot of time on MySpace anymore but I noticed Ciara was messing with her profile and there was a little WYSIWYG editor over on...

Adobe Evangelism - Where Climbing an Active Volcano Happens

My mid-year resolution is to do more video and incorporate it into my job. Sometimes it’ll be interviews of people at conferences (I’ve...

The Most Important Talk from the AIR Tour - Ethan Malasky

Mike Chambers posted what I think is the absolute most important talk from the on AIR Tour. It’s Ethan Malasky’s presentation on Develo...

The Best RIA Resource Yet

Matthias sent a note about RIA Alltop and I think it’s the best collection of RIA blogs/information that I’ve seen. Alltop is a “...

Adding Sounds to your Flex Applications

Update: Duh. Juan reminded me of the mx:SoundEffect class which can be used just like all of the other effects. You can use the [Bindable] and [Emb...

Top 10 Apps Worth Installing Adobe AIR For

I’ve been impressed by the number of “Top” lists that are starting to include AIR. It turns out a lot of people are finding some ...

Digging Into the Guts of The Flex Compiler

Matt Chotin posted about a new document which covers a bunch of the inner workings of the Flex Compiler. We open sourced the compiler as part of th...

Adobe Swag Auction to Help Earthquake Victims in China

This is not something that all of my readers will be able to take advantage of but I thought it was a really great example of Adobe and the communi...

AIR Cookbook Now in Beta

The AIR cookbook is now in beta and ready for you to input all of your tidbits of AIR knowledge. If you’re not familiar with the cookbook for...

AIR 1.1 Available for Download

Cool! I just saw on the AIR Download page that we’ve released version 1.1, the updated version of the AIR runtime. We’ve fixed a ton of...

RSS Feed Issues

Thanks to everyone who dropped me a note about my RSS feed. I’m working on the problem. It has something to do with the WordPress blank line ...

Tumblweed - AIR Application for Tumblr

I’m not a huge user of Tumblr. I have an account and I really like the concept, but between Twitter and regular blogging I say everything I h...

A Bit of Spring Cleaning

As you may have noticed my blog was set to the old default theme for a bit. I’m still having spam/random links issues so I had HostMySite do ...

Debug Flash Applications with FireBug and ThunderBolt

At the on AIR tour in Berlin I just saw a really cool project called Thunderbolt by Jens Krause that lets you debug Flash applications in the brows...

Pandora Releases an AIR Application

Pandora is one of my favorite music services. They’ve got a great library and it’s an excellent way to discover music. They also have (...

Does the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Update Force a Downgrade of the Flash Player?

Update: The answer is no, it doesn’t. Thanks to the commenters below. Serge tipped me off to this blog post about Windows XP service pack 3 a...

New Acrobat and Introducing Acrobat.com

Two big announcements today. One, we’re announcing Reader 9 which includes the ability to render SWF content inside of your PDF. That means y...

Beet.TV on Adobe Media Player and Advertising

Beet.TV has an interview up with Deeje Cooley, an Internet TV Evangelist here at Adobe, on some of the advertising models inside of Adobe Media Pla...

Heads Up: Firefox 3 Breaks Some Flash Applications

Update: They’re going to rollback the change that caused the problem with Flash. Thanks to mjg for the heads up. I wanted to give Flash devel...

The Latest Flash Player Exploit

There was some big news about a flaw in Flash Player 9 that was supposedly a zero-day exploit which affected all versions of Flash Player 9. That i...

Break the Guiness World Record For Downloads? Flash Already Did It

Mozilla is doing trying to break the record for software downloads in 24 hours with Firefox 3. Having used Firefox 3 I’m pretty impressed, I ...

FriendFeed is a Great Evangelist Tool

To be honest I was a little lukewarm on FriendFeed. And I still don’t use it much to interact with my readers. I think in a lot of cases it o...

MAX North America Registration Open

?Registration for MAX in San Francisco is open as of today. It’s from November 16th - 19th and we’re going to be releasing and showing ...

David Mendels and the Definition of RIA

James Governor has a great post which includes a quote by David Mendels on the definition of RIAs. David is going to be hugely missed here at Adobe...

Adobe AIR Supports Enterprise Deployment

Oliver Goldman wanted to make sure you knew that and I agree. As he says, right now, in AIR 1.0, you can make your application enterprise-ready and...

Dreamweavers, Fireworks, and Soundbooths, oh My!

We’ve released 3 products (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Soundbooth) from the upcoming Creative Suite 4 release so that you can check out the n...

The Day Google Erased Me From the Internet - Why I Want Microsoft to Be Competitive in Search

Update 2: Just making sure people know that I’m back in the index and Google was very helpful about it. All in all it was a good experience (...

Adobe and the GPU - A Minority Report Future?

I just presented a bunch of the new hardware-accelerated features of Flash Player 10 to RIA Meeting here in China and so it was kind of fortuitous ...

Running Flash Player 10 beta and Flash Player 9 Side By Side

Running Flash Player 10 beta and Flash Player 9 Side By Side I have a confession to make. I didn’t install the Flash Player 10 beta until abo...

Flash Player 10 API Documentation Available

I’m still in China so I’m not sure if this has been mentioned before but we’ve got the API Docs for Flash Player 10 available for...

Online/Offline Synchronization with Adobe AIR

One of the biggest problems I think we have when dealing with the offline/online problem is synchronization. Doing conflict resolution for data whe...

Come Learn JavaScript and HTML on the On AIR Tour Europe

In a couple of weeks we’ll be back in Europe for the on AIR Tour. This time we’re hitting northern and eastern Europe, a part of the co...

Fixing the Open Office File Association .ODS in Adobe AIR Linux

It was pointed out to me that on Linux ad Adobe AIR we sometimes take over the .ODS extension which is usually associated with Open Office. I didn&...

One of My New Favorite Bloggers - Brooks Andrus

I just wanted to give a shout-out to one of my new favorite RIA bloggers - Brooks Andrus. His stuff reminds me of what I used to blog before I got ...

Using Adobe AIR to Solve the “File Problem”

Unfortunately when explaining AIR I usually fall back on “well you can use it to take your applications offline. People just seem to get offl...

ReadAIR - Google Reader on AIR

It’s getting kind of hard to keep track of all the AIR applications out there. I just saw that there is a new AIR application called ReadAir ...

No AIR Support for Google Maps Flash API

Well this sucks. I was really excited about the Google Maps Flash API and sat down today to do some work with it inside of AIR. I ran into this sec...

Flex Compiler for Flash Player 10 Available

We just posted a nightly build of the Flex 3 SDK that will let you actually program with some of the new features in Flash Player 10. The SDK inclu...

Flash Player 10 Beta Available

The newest version of the Flash Player is now out in beta for you to test out and provide feedback. This version has a ton of new stuff that should...

Google Maps Gets a Flash API

Today Google announced the availability of a Google Maps API for Flash which means you can now use Google Maps right inside of your Flash applicati...

Snackr - Little Bits of RSS Goodness

NJ on the Thermo team has been working on a little AIR application called Snackr built with Flex that helps you keep track of your feeds. It’...

Notes from the Evangelist Offsite

Update: Wow, this ended up being really long. All of the evangelists at Adobe had an offsite today in New York and it was one of the coolest days I...

Sharing and Collaboration with RIAs

Congratulations to the SlideShare team which raised another $3 million in funding. They’re a really great use of Flash and they’ve show...

Sweet! Flickr Support for Photoshop Express is Coming

VentureBeat has a story about the fact that we’re releasing Flickr support in an update to Photoshop Express. I’ve been pretty impresse...

LINQ for ActionScript

G-uniX has a post up about a project he’s been working on to bring LINQ-like functionality to ActionScript. He’s been doing a lot of C#...

What’s up with Twitter’s Flash/ActionScript 3 API?

Update: Brian found it - http://code.google.com/p/twitterscript/. But I still find it odd it isn’t listed on the library page. Maybe an overs...

Interview with AlertThingy Creator Jeremy Baines

Mike just posted an interview I did with Jeremy Baines of AlertThingy (Crunchbase) at our on AIR event in London. It’s a pretty short intervi...

Unhelpful Rhetoric and Adobe’s Place in the Open Web

Some of the employees from Mozilla flabbergast me. I realize that they want to be seen as defenders of the open web but I think posts like this, by...

MXNA is Back Up, Just a Different Address

In case you haven’t seen the news, MXNA is back up as feeds.adobe.com. Christian has all of the info and background and he has been the one p...

On Desktop Application Platforms and User Interfaces

No matter what kind of developer you are I encourage you to read Peter Bright’s post about .NET. It’s a fascinating look at the history of Windows...

What Annoys You About Flash?

Some Random Dude does a lot of work in Flash and he’s asking people what their biggest gripe about Flash is. I think it’s really good t...

New Version of Connect Pro Out

One of the more interesting products at Adobe is Connect and we just released a new version today (it was codenamed “Brio” Update: It&#...

Installing Flex Builder Linux alpha 3 on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron”

Panscendo (who has a blog after my own heart) posted a quick and dirty walkthrough to get you up and running with Flex Builder Linux alpha 3 on the...

Thermo User Testing - The Board Game

Rob Adams has been doing a bunch of user testing for Thermo and he has a post up that talks about the process. He describes it as “Thermo: Th...

Adobe Open Screen Project - Open Specifications and Open Technology to Help Expand Flash Player Reach

Today Adobe is announcing the Open Screen Project, something that continues our steady march to being more open and at the same time should help fo...

Real Time Communication with Flex and AIR using ColdFusion and LiveCycle Data Services

In this walkthrough I’m going to take you through using ColdFusion (which contains LiveCycle Data Services) to create real time communication...

Another Great Use for AIR - Beatport Downloader

Thanks to CrunchGear I just caught wind of the Beatport Downloader. It’s an AIR application that lets you download and manage music you buy f...

New Topo Explorer and Introducing trail.digitalbackcountry.com

TechCrunch has a post about the just-launched beta of TOPO! Explorer, a site which provides a Google Maps interface on top of real topo data and it...

What Morgan Stanley’s Internet Trends Report has for Adobe Developers

TechCrunch has a copy of Morgan Stanley’s Internet Trends report for March and there’s a lot of good news in there for anyone in the Ad...

The Return of Ryan’s Shared Items

I’ve been really slacking off in the feeds that I read and as a result I’ve been missing some of the coolest news from the community. H...

Could We Make The Flash Install More User Friendly on Linux?

There’s a funny/cool post over on Content Consumer about a guy who let his girlfriend lose on a copy of Ubuntu 8.04 and asked her to do some ...

Commenting on Flex Developer Center Articles

Adobe Developer Connection just rolled out a commenting system for the Flex Developer Center. I used to have trouble pointing people to a place the...

Webware Covers Thermo

At Web 2.0 Expo, Steven Heintz gave a session on Thermo and after the session he sat down and talked to Rafe Needleman about it. They cover how thi...

101 Adobe AIR Resources - A Great List

Jason Bartholme has put together an impressive list of 101 Adobe AIR links. He’s got tutorials, news articles, applications, bloggers - prett...

Loading Files in External Applications with Adobe AIR

I had a conversation with a customer the other day about ways to launch certain files with their “native” application. Like .doc files ...

Places to get your Thermo Fix Over the Next Few Weeks

We’re starting to ramp up conversation about Thermo and that includes a lot more speaking slots and a lot more opportunities for you to give ...

The GAE SWF Project - Helping you Deploy Flash/Flex Apps on Google App Engine

Aral Balkan just released the GAE SWF project which is an open source project that helps Flash and Flex developers both deploy their applications t...

One of the Big Values of AMP - Analytics, Analytics, Analytics

A couple of weeks ago we launched the Adobe Media Player and to be totally honest, I’m still not how to describe it to a layperson. It’...

Flash Player Timing in the Browser and Standalone (and in AIR)

Chet Haase has a really, really good blog post up about framerates in the Flash Player. He was playing with the BubbleMark test that has become a d...

Leg One of the on AIR Tour

Update: Wow, this ended up being long. If you don’t want to read it all, you can click the name of the city below or even better, check out t...

What Service is The Best for Uploading 30 second - 5 minute Clips of Video?

I should know this considering I work for Adobe and talk/think about Flash all day, but as I get ready to upload a bunch of clips from my trip to D...

Easy Photo Uploading with AIR and ImageDropR

Rich Tretola has been working on ImageDropR, an AIR application that makes it easier to upload images to some of the photo services out there. I wr...

Wikipedia for data would be awesome for GPS/Mapping

Bret Taylor has a post up that I found thanks to Techmeme about the need for a Wikipedia for data. I love this idea and Bret's reasoning behind it:...

Desktop Applications as the Power Behind Web Applications

Josh Catone gives a bunch of reasons why we need web applications on the desktop. He absolutely gets it and I think he makes all of the right point...

Flash Player Open Bug Base

We made a bunch of announcements today including the availability of AMP, the start of Adobe TV and also an open bug base for Flash Player. Now if ...

Qik Gets $3 Million Funding

Qik, the live streaming service that lets you use a cellphone as the video camera has raised $3 million in funding according to VentureBeat. Qik us...

Scotch on AIR in Dublin, Ireland

We had to postpone the Dublin even for the on AIR tour this week but luckily we're still doing something in Dublin - Scotch on AIR. I'm planning on...

Geoff Stearns Has a Problem

Geoff Stearns of SWFObject fame is in desperate need. His girlfriend created a website because Geoff needs a haircut. He's rocking the business in ...

ColdFusion 8.0.1 is Released

The update to ColdFusion 8 that supports Leopard is now available. I've been using it lately as I've been jumping in to more LiveCycle Data Service...

The Open Web Is Slow

Kevin Dangoor has a post over on SitePen that starts like this: "We at SitePen are very strongly in favor of the Open Web concept, because it’s t...

Ways to Follow the on AIR Tour

The on AIR Tour is in full swing. We had a great event in Madrid. We're about to get started here in Paris. We've been taking a ton of video from t...

Goodbye MXNA

I owe MXNA a lot. I can still remember how awesome I thought it was to get aggregated on MXNA because it opened up a whole world of Flex/Flash deve...

Best April Fools Joke Yet - Aviary’s Dodo

I've always loved the subtle way that the Aviary products keep with the bird theme (the EGG file format, the cool product names) and they did an ab...

Chumby Raises $12.5 Million in a Series B

Chumby, one of the first and best use cases for Flash Lite 3 has raised another $12.5 million dollars in a Series B round. Chumby is one of the coo...

AIR Linux Is Out - It Could Change How I Use a Computer

At the on AIR event here in Madrid just hours after the AIR Linux alpha hit Adobe Labs, Enrique demoed it to the crowd. He had Ubuntu set up as a V...

The Future is Now - Adobe Photoshop Express

We launched Photoshop Express tonight and the early reviews seem to be pretty positive with a couple of odd blemishes (the terms of service seems v...

First Rule of Installing Safari on Windows - Do Not Install Safari on Windows

Haha! Doing something cross platform is hard. So when Apple said they were going to be bringing Safari to Windows I think people were curious as to...

Just Because the Browser Is Easy Doesn’t Make it Better

There's a great post by Ed Burnette over on ZDNet about how the desktop is dead. And he makes a compelling point: Installing and uninstalling and ...

Congrats on the API, FriendFeed - Can you Add a crossdomain.xml file?

FriendFeed, an interesting new service that aggregates all of your social media friend's content into one place has just released a set of APIs and...

Reminder: Flash Player Security Update in April - Prepare Your SWF

We're going to be pushing out a security update to the Flash player next month that will probably impact a lot of you so we're trying to make sure ...

Congrats to a Bunch of Companies Using Flex/Flash/AIR

It has been a good couple of weeks for companies using Flex/Flash/AIR and a lot of these companies are starting to get some mainstream press which ...

Excited for the on AIR Tour? Check out 360|Flex Italy!

We're getting ready to leave for the on AIR Europe tour this week and then Europe will be the place to be! The 7th - 9th of April is going to be 36...

The Greatest Use of Flash Ever - Free (legal) South Park Episodes!

Yes!! NewTeeVee just posted that the South Park guys are making every single South Park episode available online for free. And it's all in Flash. T...

Adobe Developer Week 2008 Starts Today

Adobe is doing a whole ton of online seminars about a range of technologies this week, our Adobe Developer Week 2008. We did something similar last...

Google Using Flex in Docs and Spreadsheets

Via Zohar Ganon from Twitter I just noticed that Google's new Gadgets and Visualization API uses a bit of Flex for their Motion Charts. The SWF is ...

Best MIX Writeup Ever

It's early in the morning here in Asia and I'm sleepy but I took some time to read Jesse Warden's post on MIX 08. It's long, divided into clickable...

Best MIX Writeup Ever

It's early in the morning here in Asia and I'm sleepy but I took some time to read Jesse Warden's post on MIX 08. It's long, divided into clickable...

MapQuest Gets Traffic Information

At SXSW I got to talk to the team at MapQuest about their AS3 API. Despite the old-school impression I had of MapQuest they're doing some cool thin...

Beet.tv with a ton of Flash Lite Info/Content

Andy Plesser over at Beet.tv is becoming the multimedia guru when it comes to Flash Lite. He has a couple of interviews that are especially applica...

Why Doesn’t Adobe Share Get Any Love?

Richard MacManus has a post up about Slideshare and how it could be becoming the "leading pure play online presentation app" out there. And I think...

Flash Player Gets Even More Reach on Mobile Devices

We’re announcing today that Microsoft (yup, that Microsoft) is licensing the Flash Lite 3 player AND Reader LE for their Windows Mobile devices. Th...

From Oklahoma City to Asia in a Week

Just a quick note that I'll be in Asia this week. I'm hitting Seoul on Monday and Tuesday, Taipei on Tuesday and Wednesday, then Hong Kong until Sa...

BBC using Flash as a standard for web video

According to Tim Anderson who is at Qcon today, the BBC is standardizing on Flash as the way to deliver web video. There have been a bunch of back ...

Web Services and the Importance of Platform at Adobe

With the YouTube announcement today Steve Rubel has a good post on the future being Web Services. If you look around he's got some awfully compelli...

Web Services and the Importance of Platform at Adobe

With the YouTube announcement today Steve Rubel has a good post on the future being Web Services. If you look around he’s got some awfully co...

searchme: Adobe consulting, $31 million in funding from Sequoia and Flexified Search

I totally missed that searchme, which got a bunch of attention on Techmeme yesterday, was done in Flex with the help of Adobe Consulting. For the m...

Are We Finally Getting High Quality YouTube?

Something's going on and I like what ReadWriteWeb is thinking. Supposedly YouTube is making an announcement tomorrow and no one is quite sure what ...

Not Very Far Away From Adobe Taking Over Europe

As Mike Chambers posted, the first leg of the on AIR Tour Europe is only a few weeks away and registration is filling up. Not only is it a good cha...

Hulu launches with HD Flash and a Crap-Ton of Content

I feel like a punk because I don't have a Hulu invite and they're launching today with a ton of content. Hulu was one of the first companies to emb...

Flex Developers in Austin

I'm in Austin at SXSW and I've run into a number of people who want to talk about Flex. That isn't entirely surprising because Austin has a pretty ...

Ukrainian Adobe Flash Platform Group Now Open for Business

I'm at MIX this week so I've been slacking off on the blogging but I got a note from Rostislav Siryk today that we have a new addition to the user ...

iPhone Redux

Since I surprisingly got so much attention last time I wanted to point people to my thoughts on Apple's Shareholder meeting. It was newsworthy enou...

Check Out My Crappy Code Projects

With the help of the always-badass Simeon Bateman I've got an SVN repository up for all of my various projects. For the most part these will be in ...

Interview with Kevin Lynch at eWeek

Darryl Taft has a good interview up with Kevin Lynch in which they cover a bunch of topics. Kevin touches on everything from open sourcing Flash to...

File System Access for a Better Upload Experience

I've been messing around with uploading video this week and it's kind of a pain. For one thing, the file sizes seem huge, on the order of 50-150 me...

Adobe Is a Member of the SQLite Consortium

One of the cool things that we announced on the 25th that may have gotten lost in the shuffle of other announcements is that Adobe joined the SQLit...

Almost Creepy Use of Flash

This is both really cool and really creepy. But it was cool enough to post it. Gotta love all the stuff you can do with Flash. It's creepiest when ...

Comcast’s LogBook AIR Application

Update: 1.0 is now available. The interactive team at Comcast has been busy and they've put together a very handy AIR application called LogBook. L...

Adobe Developer Connection Developer Desktop

We've got a cool little application built on AIR that may be helpful to developers. It's called the Developer Desktop and it hooks into our resourc...

The Freedom of Online and Cross Platform

Scoble gets pretty close to hitting the nail on the head with this paragraph: I’m trying to get everything I do online because I want freedom from...

National Geographic’s mapXchange using ColdFusion

When I was doing full time ColdFusion development I always got a kick out of Ben's "Using CF" posts. It's left an impact because to this day I find...

Get on the Adobe Reader 9 Beta

The Reader Team announced that they're looking for prerelease testers for Adobe Reader 9. The new version of Reader is going to have some very cool...

Picnik Opens Up - Premium Features Are Free

Picnik, one of my favorite online photo editors (all Flex) just announced that they're opening up the features in their premium service to everyone...

Go Vote for Flex/Flash/AIR On the Webware 100 Awards

It's that time of the year again. Webware is doing their now annual rundown of the coolest technology of the year in a variety of categories. There...

My Thermo Session at 360|Flex

I'm on my way to 360|Flex in Atlanta and I wanted to quickly talk a bit about my session on Wednesday morning. It's officially listed in the p...

AIR Linux Coming Later This Year

Testing Spammer Issues

Testing Spammer issues, sorry.

Engage 2008 - First Part of the Day

Engage is off to a great start. It's a very different vibe than last year but it's got a lot more people and and a much bigger production value tha...

Tracking Engage 2008

We're busy at Engage 2008. We did Engage last year and this year it's bigger and better. We basically bring a bunch of people into a room, show the...

02.25.2008 - The Day the Web Got Much Bigger

Today is a pretty big day. To be totally honest, today is the reason I joined Adobe. Today is the release of Adobe AIR and Flex 3. The New York Tim...

Engage 2008 - Enhancing the Conversation Around Rich Internet Applications

Tomorrow we're holding Engage 2008 here in San Francisco and after helping do some setup today and being involved in the planning I'm really excite...

Why blist chose Flex and Flash

Kevin Merritt, the CEO of blist, wrote up his thoughts about why the company chose Flex/Flash over other alternatives and even why he didn't decide...

Google Docs == Fail but Google Docs + Adobe AIR == Win

There's a very good comment over on ReadWriteWeb by Karim on why Google Docs is nowhere close to Microsoft Office and how Google Docs is "Chock ful...

How Flash Works on Facebook

There's a bit of "news" today that Facebook is allowing Flash content on pages and profiles. As a lot of the comments have noted, Facebook has been...

Online Tools - Collaboration is the Key

There is a very good post over at Read/WriteWeb on Why Google Apps is a Serious Threat to Microsoft Office and one of the big answers is collabora...

Does Experience Really Matter?

I spend a ton of time talking about how important experience is and why it will make you smarter, stronger, and better in bed. Then I spend time on...

$100k+ Flex Jobs

While watching the Lakers/Suns game I saw the add for The Ladder, the job site that deals in only "100k+ jobs" and thought I'd see what the result...

Finally The On AIR Tour has come BACK…….To Europe

Anyone get the WWE reference? No? Well we finally announced the dates and cities for the On AIR Tour in Europe. I'm really, really exited about the...

Help Us Test AIR On Linux

We're looking for a few good developers who have a lot of Linux experience to help us beta test AIR. James Ward has most of the details but if you'...

Adobe AIR on MIT’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2008

Very cool recognition in MIT's Technology Review. Adobe AIR is listed as one of the Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2008. It's pretty cool to see ...

Web Design and Development Survey - Win an iPod Nano

Nitobi is running a Web Design and Development Survey and they're giving away an iPod Nano to one lucky email address. The survey is pretty general...

The 2008 Amgen Tour Tracker Is Live

A lot of people saw this application last year but it's always worth a mention and the 2008 version has been updated some. If you're looking for a ...

CrunchBase: An Excellent Way to Keep Up With Where Adobe is Investing

I've been a fan of CrunchBase for a long time because it has such valuable information on startups but I noticed recently that they have started in...

AIR Training in Toronto and Las Vegas

With AIR dropping soon and for those of you who want to get up to speed on AIR you're going to have a chance in March and April. Greg Hamer is goin...

Arg, What the Hell is Going On With My Feed?

No, I'm not starting advertising in my feed, and thanks to those of you who gave me the heads up. I was having issues with deleting posts and peopl...

Third Test Post

Testing post a third time.

Second Test Post

Publishing a second test post.

Test Post

Sorry for the test post. Checking out an error on the site.

The Valley Versus the Mountain (Silicon or Seattle?)

This is one of the reasons I like Tech Crunch; Mike's personality gets to show through. In this case he's defending Silicon Valley in a discussion ...

A $6 million win for Flex

Huge congrats to Loic Le Meur and the Seesmic team because they've raised $6 million dollars to help keep the momentum going. I'm a big fan of Sees...

Will Tools like Aviary With Flex/AIR Replace GIMP and Help Designers on Linux?

I was looking at Aviary's recent creation and found myself amazed yet again at how much functionality is in Phoenix, their image editor. You can do...

Thoughts on the “Flash on the iPhone” News

There are a ton of blog posts about the "news" that Flash on the iPhone is coming soon. I've been getting a lot of Twitters and emails about whethe...

SVN Hosting Suggestions

Sorry for the off topic. My Mac is getting ready to die so I have an appointment at the Genius Bar tomorrow. I'm pretty sure the "Geniuses" are jus...

The Rise of the RIA: Adobe is on Fire and We Owe it to You Guys

There's a great post by Rafe Needleman about Aviary and the gist of the post is that Flash is everywhere and Flash applications are some of the abs...