Adobe live: Round up
Thu, May 31, 2007
Some posts about Adobe Live yesterday:
- Overview of the posts of Niels Bruin
- Preview flex 3, Wietse Veenstra’s comments, Ruben Swierenga’s comments
- Ruben Swieringa on the whole day
Some random thoughts about yesterday:
- Liked what Aral Balkan said about the position of developers. They are seen as a necessary evil. They are only the translators of the design into the code. They don’t have have contact with clients or users better to hide them or hire them if far away cheap places.
- Good to see so many Macs. Even Waldo Smeets was using a mac (his pc broke the night before). But that gave him to opportunity to show that flex 3 runs on ancient powerbooks.
- Flash lite sucks. At least version 1 of it. We saw a presentation of it. Who wants to go back to Flash 4 programming. You can make great applications with it, but the pain is comparable with making drawings using your own blood.
- Joey Lott knows how to entertain an audience using only code. Impressive.
- Don’t know what to think about Swx. It is supposed to be the json for Flash/ Flex. But I kind of like Remoting. The client side code for swx does look a lot like the code to remoting (especially in AS 3.0). The server side of swx did look easy to install, but it looked like “just” an easy way to install amfphp. It would be nice though if all kinds of sites like Twitter, Flickr, Gmail, Delicious etc create a swx service. So there will be a lot of Flash/Flex mashups.
- Apollo is nice. A security model has been made and it looks pretty good. I think it is really important for Adobe to show of what it can do, by packaging great examples. Some of the ones that were shown are a bit weak.
- Still waiting for posts about our ideas for the BNN donor show
. They should be implemented now!
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May 31st, 2007 at 1:48 pm
I’ve already been checking out countries in Eastern Europe for cheap (not necessarily voluntary) donors for our “Kidneythieves: The battle” show, Raymond, so we already got that part covered
May 31st, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Is it related to this post
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May 31st, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Hahahaha. I guess so, in one way or another..
June 1st, 2007 at 1:12 am
Thanks for the comments, hope you enjoyed the day!
Just out of curiosity; which was the session where they showed Flash Lite 1? Totally agree… TellTarget is no fun, but that’s why we introduced Flash Lite 2 a long while ago
Not sure why that wasn’t covered yet.
ps: Would love to permanently move over to the Mac, there’s unfortunately a few small but crucial set of applications that I use very often for my work which are not available for Max yet
June 1st, 2007 at 7:34 am
Also glad to hear you enjoyed Adobe Live. I specifically showed you how to make apps with Flash Lite 1 because that is the Flash Lite version that’s currently wide-spread. I also showed you a few work-arounds for common problems with FL1. I can only suggest to start playing with it and see what kind of apps you can make. It’s actually really good fun to make applications using long forgotten code
Good luck,
Serge
June 1st, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Hi Serge, thanks for your comment. I think I will focus more on newer version of Flash lite. I don’t have to make mobile apps now that have to run on existing phones. Forgot to mention that I did really like the mobile phone emulator app.
June 2nd, 2007 at 12:03 am
“It’s actually really good fun to make applications using long forgotten code”
I think it’s really frustrating to make applications with forgotten code. Why can’t Flash Lite using the same Flash Player as the current one Flash and Flex are using? I don’t want to use serveral hacks to make an working application. (and I don’t think i’m the only one)
Let’s hope Apollo will be made for Mobile Devices (and with the current Flash Player 9), otherwise i don’t see a great future for flash on Mobile Devices.
June 2nd, 2007 at 4:24 pm
@Niels: Flash Lite 2.1 already uses ActionScript2 but is just not as wide-spread at the moment as Flash Lite 1.1
Getting these players on mobile phones is a whole other ballgame than getting new Flash players on desktop machines…