Weekly blend – February 28, 2009

Posted by Serge Jespers on Feb 28, 2009 in Weekly blend | 1 comment

• Kindle 2 going international – If this job posting by lab126.com … (John Biggs/CrunchGear)
  - And it’s about time too ;-)
• ColdFusion Hosting In Europe
  - New ColdFusion host in Europe
• Find Flash, Flex and AIR Jobs on Twitter
• Can Google index Flash?
  - A real-world experiment with excellent results.
• SoTexty AS3 Text Effects Framework
  - Cool stuff from Belgium
• Microsoft Cuts 1,400 Employees And Then Asks For Severance Package Refunds
  - Auch…

Recently laid off? Learn a new skill, upgrade your profile.

Posted by Serge Jespers on Feb 23, 2009 in Flex, Industry | 8 comments

I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that the economy is not in a good place right now. Since October 2008, more than 300.000 people have lost their jobs in the tech industry.

I’m not saying that being laid off is fun but you could see it as an opportunity. An opportunity to learn a new skill and while doing that, upgrade your profile. There’s still a pretty strong demand for Flash/Flex/AS3.0 skills. So, if you haven’t looked in to those technologies, why not do it now?

If you’re interested in learning Flex, send me an email ([email protected]) and I may be able to hook you up with some stuff ;-)

Weekly blend – February 21, 2009

Posted by Serge Jespers on Feb 21, 2009 in Weekly blend | Comments Off

• The Top 21 Twitter Clients (According To TwitStat)
  - 23% of all Tweets now sent using an AIR application
• Content Owners Force Hulu To Kneecap Boxee
  - Don’t really see what the problem here is? You can already watch Hulu on your PC so why can’t I use a great app like Boxee to make that experience a lot easier?
• 50 Free High-Quality Icon Sets
  - Loads and loads of free icons
• Segway-Powered Sledding Guarantees Your Kid Will Grow Up Fat and Lazy
  - This really made me laugh ;-)

Video tutorial: Introduction to Adobe’s mobile platform

Posted by Serge Jespers on Feb 18, 2009 in How-to, mobile, Popular, Video, Video Tutorial | 14 comments

Adobe’s mobile platform has become a lot more interesting for Flash developers this week. Instead of having to open up the Flash Player on your device to watch the Flash content you created, you can now package your application using the Mobile Packager and distribute your application as an SIS-file for Symbian S60 or CAB-file for Window Mobile phones. Your users can now download and install your Flash based application on their mobile device just like any other application they install. What’s even cooler is that we also package a Flash Version Checker together with your application. As soon as the user launches the application, the Flash Version Checker is going to check if the Flash Player is installed and if it is the correct version. If not, it’s going to download and install the Flash Lite runtime seamlessly. Exactly like you would do on a PC and exactly as it should be. Check out Andrew Shorten’s blog post on the installation process.

I’ve recorded a little video that walks you through the process and will be doing more videos on how to build mobile applications soon.

Adobe on Twitter

Posted by Serge Jespers on Feb 18, 2009 in adobe, Popular | 72 comments

I thought it was a good idea to compile a list of Adobeans on Twitter. It was quite surprising to see how big this list turned out and I’m pretty sure there must be even more of us on Twitter.

If you know of someone not on the list, feel free to add them in the comments! I will keep updating the list when I find more Adobeans on Twitter.