Serge Jespers

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Posts by Serge Jespers

Help improve Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0

February 8, 2010 - 1:54 pm

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Posted in AIR, Flash Player | 9 comments

Adobe engineering is headed into the final stretch of development of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0. We need community help to identify quality issues with your deployed and in-development content. While both Flash and AIR are tested extensively internally, every beta we receive valuable feedback from the Flash community and beyond.
Here is how you can get involved:

Download and [...]

Package Assistant for AIR 2 update

February 5, 2010 - 10:19 am

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Posted in AIR | No comments

Just before the holidays, I released an alpha version of my AIR 2 Package Assistant application. As many of you know, AIR 2 allows you to build native installers. The only downside is that you have to use the command line in order to package these native installers.
I have just narrowed down the possible solution [...]

Kevin Lynch (Adobe’s CTO) blogs about Flash, past and future, Apple iPad, HTML5, OSP and more.

February 2, 2010 - 6:10 pm

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Posted in Industry, adobe, open screen project | No comments

Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch just published a blog post with his thoughts on Flash, past and future, Apple iPad, HTML5, OSP and more.
The blog post entitled “Open Access to Content and Applications” gives you a good idea on where Adobe and the Flash Platform is going and what we are doing with our Open Screen [...]

The iPad’s browsing experience

January 29, 2010 - 6:42 am

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Posted in Industry | 2 comments

My fellow evangelist Lee Brimelow created an accurate view of  the browsing experience on Apple’s new iPad. Sometimes a picture does say more than a thousand words… Go check it out on Lee’s blog.

Open letter from a Mac-head

January 28, 2010 - 8:53 pm

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Posted in Industry | 38 comments

DISCLAIMER: I work for Adobe on the platform evangelism team. I’ve been a Flash designer/developer for the last 12 years. Even though I work for Adobe. I’m pretty sure I would have also written this post if I was still a freelance Flash developer. The views expressed on this blog are my own and do [...]

Flex: The Ecosystem

January 28, 2010 - 9:56 am

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Posted in Flex | 4 comments

The Flex family extends far beyond the Flex Framework and the Flash Builder IDE. A lot of third party vendors have created applications, frameworks, components and tools to help you be successful in your application development. There are tools for functional, performance and security testing, third party components, AMF products, licensing and encryption tools and [...]

Upcoming events: WIF, MWC, FITC, FFK10

January 20, 2010 - 9:49 am

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Posted in Events | 7 comments

While the next coming months are going to be a little bit hectic, I am really looking forward to it. I’m especially looking forward to seeing you guys at these events.

WIF – February 5th & 6th – Namur, Belgium – http://www.wif-dogstudio.be/
WIF (Webdesign International Festival) is a worldwide event and this will be the first one [...]

Haiti needs your help! Show your support and help raise awareness!

January 14, 2010 - 1:25 pm

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I know this is extremely off topic but nonetheless I think it’s well worth pointing your attention to. I’m sure you’ve heard about the devastating earthquake in Haiti. According to the Red Cross, 3 million people (1 in 3 Haitians) are affected by the earthquake.
While Haiti is definitely not around the corner for most of [...]

Adobe at Mobile World Congress

January 14, 2010 - 1:02 pm

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Posted in Events, devices, iPhone, mobile | 11 comments

Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is just around the corner and you can already feel the excitement building.
2010 is going to be an amazing year for Flash developers who want to create mobile applications. Not only did we announce the Flash CS5 iPhone compiler but we’ve already demoed Flash Player 10.1 on a variety of [...]

CES summary: E-Readers, 3D TV and internet-connected TVs

January 11, 2010 - 5:07 pm

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Posted in Industry | 3 comments

E-Readers, 3D TV and internet-connected TVs, Blu-ray players and set-top boxes. That pretty much sums up CES 2010.
E-Readers
I have a Kindle and I absolutely love it. But I love it because it is so easy to use and even easier to buy books straight from the device. The same goes for the Nook, which directly [...]