I am currently in Brighton, UK for Flash On The Beach. During yesterday’s “Town Hall meeting”, a panel of Adobeans (including myself) was ready to answer any questions that would come up. As you can see here on the left, the room was packed.
One of the questions everyone asks all the time is when we will see the Flash Player running on the iPhone. Paul Betlem, Sr. Director of Engineering, answered the question by repeating what we’ve been saying for a few months now. When I returned to my hotel last night, I was amazed to see how many people picked up on his answer and how many people see it as the confirmation of Flash on the iPhone. Even Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen, already publicly stated that:
…we are working on it. We have a version that’s working on the emulation. This is still on the computer and you know, we have to continue to move it from a test environment onto the device and continue to make it work. So we are pleased with the internal progress that we’ve made to date.
So to avoid any further misconceptions, here’s the statement that Paul’s answer was based upon:
Adobe is committed to bringing Flash Player to the iPhone. While the development work has begun, we can’t share more details at this point. It is important to note that we do need to work with Apple beyond what is available through the SDK, its emulation environment and the current license around it to bring the full capabilities of Flash to the iPhone. We think Flash availability on the iPhone benefits the millions of joint Apple and Adobe customers, and we want to work with Apple to bring these capabilities to the device.
I can’t keep count of how many times people have asked me if ColdFusion was dead and the answer is pretty simple: “Hell no!”. Actually, ColdFusion 9 is currently in active development and from what I’ve seen and heard, it’s going to kick some serious behind!
In Belgium, ColdFusion is powering some seriously big and high-traffic sites (like Kinepolis, Immoweb and ZDNet to name a few) and so it’s great to see that the Belgian ColdFusion user group is now being rebooted. Their first meeting is on September 29th at 2pm in Brussels. Fellow platform evangelist Adam Lehman is going to talk about CF and LiveCycle DataServices, monitoring and system alerts and will also let you in on the ColdFusion 9 (codenamed Centaur) roadmap.
As you probably know by now, Flash On The Beach is in just 1 week time and is completely sold out. Luckily we were able to get a hold of the last tickets and asked you to be creative with the “beach” theme and the AIR, Flash, Flex, ColdFusion, Adobe logos. Here are the winners who all get a full conference pass to Flash On The Beach in Brighton. I’m sure you’ll agree that these clearly are winners. Congrats to all of them and see you in Brighton! Read the rest of this entry →
Flash On The Beach is now just 2 weeks away and is also officially sold out. If you were too late in getting your tickets, this is your last chance to get one… for free!
The only thing you have to do is get a little creative! A couple of weeks ago, Adobe’s European platform evangelist team launched this contest. Although the deadline was officially last week, we want to give you guys a little bit more time to get creative and win your ticket for FOTB especially since it’s now sold out and these are the last available tickets out there. So we’re extending the deadline until Wednesday September 17, 1pm CET. That same afternoon we’ll announce the winners.
I got to tell you that the competition is already pretty strong. So get creative and see you at Flash On The Beach!
The cat is out of the bag! Get a big black marker and write “CS4″ on September 23rd! Or even better: Go and register yourself to be part of the special web broadcast where we will announce CS4 and show you all of it’s cool new features. And if you’re in Europe, you have a chance to see it before the rest of the world!
Additionally, you also want to check with your local Adobe User Group. Most of them are organizing special events on the 23rd! I know the Belgian and the Dutch user groups have something special planned and I’m sure your local AUG will also join in the festivities.
By now, I’m pretty sure that most of you know that you can store data and files locally with AIR. There are a number of different ways of doing this and fellow platform evangelist Mihai Corlan has a great article with code snippets that show you several of them.
He talks about storing data in a SQLite database, storing ActionScript objects in files, storing assets such as images or video in files, and how to use the encrypted local store. You can just copy and paste the code snippets from the article or download the zipped Flex project file.
The Adobe TV crew is currently in Europe to record a bunch of sessions for Adobe TV presented by European Adobeans. We started today in Amsterdam and I thought I would give you a sneak peak behind the scenes of Adobe TV. The crew completely transformed a hotel room in to a high quality green screen studio. I don’t have an exact date for when these segments will be published but it’s obvious I’ll blog about my first appearance on Adobe TV ;-)
Just last week, Mark Anders did the keynote at 360Flex in San Jose where he talked about the future of the Flash Player, Flex 4, AIR 1.5, Thermo, FXG and much much more. Here’s the video from that keynote. It is quite lengthy but there’s a lot of really good info in it. Via Greg Wilson.
Today we announced the latest addition to the Photoshop.com familiy, Photoshop.com for mobile. This Flash based mobile application allows you to easily upload, view and share photos using your existing Photoshop.com account.
The beta will run on a number of Windows Mobile devices with more to come later this year.
I’ve always been a great supporter for Flash on mobile devices, so this news is pretty exciting and only points to more great things to come.
Bill Perry (our mobile and devices evangelist) has more info on his blog.
I am currently in Brighton, UK for Flash On The Beach. During yesterday’s “Town Hall meeting”, a panel of Adobeans (including myself) was ready to answer any questions that would come up. As you can see here on the left, the room was packed.
Is Adobe going to open source the Flash Player? What can you expect at MAX? What about the competition from Microsoft? What’s coming to Adobe Labs?
I can’t keep count of how many times people have asked me if 
The cat is out of the bag! Get a big black marker and write “CS4″ on September 23rd! Or even better: Go and 
