Capturing User Signatures in Mobile Applications

One growing trend that I have seen in mobile & tablet applications is the creation of tools that enable your workforce to perform their job better. This can be in the case of mobile data retrieval, streamlined sales process with apps for door-to-door sales, mobile business process efficiency, etc… One of the topics that comes […]

Introducing the US Census Browser Application

I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce you to a new project I’ve been working on to showcase enterprise-class data visualization in HTML-based applications.   The US Census Browser is an open source application for browsing data from the 2010 US Census. The app is completely written using HTML and JavaScript, even for the […]

Flex 4.6 is Available AND I’m on TV!

(Adobe TV, that is) In case you had not seen on the Flex team blog, twitter or through some other medium, Flex SDK 4.6 and Flash Builder 4.6 were released today!  Go get them, if you have not done so already.  Flex 4.6 marks a huge advancement for the Flex SDK, especially regarding mobile applications. […]

More on the Future of Flex & Flash

Late last week, Adobe released official statements and a FAQ to address the recent confusion around the Flex, the Flash/AIR platforms and mobile.    You can read the official statement at: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/articles/recent-updates.html You can read the FAQ at: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex-announcements.html Here are a few excerpts from the official statement: Adobe Flash Player on desktop Adobe reaffirmed […]

No, Flex & Flash Are Not Dead

Last week Adobe announced information about the company’s evolution and future plans of Flex. It was also announced that Adobe Flex would be contributed to an open source software foundation. The result of which, was mass speculation, fear, uncertainty, and doubt.   Rest assured, Flash is not dead, nor is Flex. Andrew and Deepa from the […]

Adobe at BlackBerry DevCon 2011

BlackBerry DevCon 2011 kicked off earlier this week, and surrounding it were some exciting announcements around Adobe tools and BlackBerry platforms. These announcements include Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 features available on the PlayBook – including Stage3D (among many other great features). Also announced was AIR support for the new BlackBerry BBX operating system, […]

MAX 2011 Presentations

The recordings of my presentations don’t seem to be available yet on Adobe TV, but here is the content, as promised. I spoke at MAX this year on “Multi Device Best Practices using Flex & AIR for Mobile”, and “Create beautiful, immersive content and applications with HTML5 and CSS3”, and the content from these presentations […]

Flash/Flex/AIR Platform Roadmap 2011

Although there were no official announcements around Flex, Flash & AIR (other than the release of FP11 & AIR3), don’t think that the platform is going away or becoming stale… In fact, it is quite the opposite. The Flash Platform will continue to thrive and innovate, providing outstanding solutions that set the pace for other […]