Announced on the IE blog, quite unexpectedly: “Starting tomorrow, we are updating Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 and Windows RT to enable Flash content to run by default… As we have seen through testing over the past several months, the vast majority of sites with Flash content are now compatible with the Windows experience [...]
“The Apache Flex team has just announced their first release of the Flex SDK under the Apache name. This release is a parity release, which means it 100% mirrors the current Adobe version of the Flex SDK. This is a very important release for the Apache team because it demonstrates the teams ability to define, develop, [...]
After last weeks announcement regarding the close of development by Adobe of Flex, I really am starting to worry about Flash. I honestly want to believe that Flash can become the ‘gaming console for the web’, but after weeks of working with the existing tools that they have for Stage3D, I am kind of at [...]
I have been seeing post all over the place about the death of the Flash player. Flame wars are going on everywhere regarding the misinformation that Flash is dead. This makes me think of a quote from Mark Twain that I am sure most of you are familiar with: “The news of my death has [...]
It has been a while since I have posted and things have definitely changed. I have been working in Flash since Flash 5.0. I remember when a Flash dev could command an amazing salary, and media companies were popping up all over the place to capitalize on the multimedia goodness of Flash. Unfortunately, those were [...]
This is my first post of the year. Been busy as all get out working on projects in Flash and Unity3D. With all that is going on with Flash, I just had to post. After years of developers begging, the beta for Flash 3D is out and looks pretty darn good. Granted there won’t be [...]
With the announcement of new Flash capabilities today at MAX, the big one being real GPU accelerated 3D, I am kind of excited. Folks have been waiting for some of these features to come down the pipe for quite some time. I remember Ben Garney’s post a little while back requesting that Adobe, Make Flash [...]
I am working on a small project that basically searches a database and displays the information in Flex. Was playing around with JSON, but the returned dataset can get too large. Decided to pick up AMFPHP again, as I have had great success with it in the past. Thankfully, the project is still alive and [...]