November 13, 2011

Flash: I`m not dead yet!

My last post generated a fair bit of discussion around the true fate of Flash within Adobe. The original announcement from Adobe and the associated staff reductions had caused a lot of speculation within the Flash community. I should clarify some of my statements, especially the parts about the Flash Pro authoring tool and Flash Player. All software follows a similar life cycle from 1.0 to a final version when it effectively becomes frozen in time.

November 9, 2011

Did Adobe finally kill Macromedia Flash?

Adobe announced that it is ceasing development on the Flash Player for Mobile Devices. As you may know, I was on the engineering team that brought Flash Player 10.1 to Mobile Devices back in June, 2010. This announcement is disappointing for many reasons, but not surprising given the realities of mobile web development. While I was at Adobe, we spent a great deal of time and energy to get the Flash Player to run fast enough on the HTC Nexus One running the Android OS.

October 19, 2011

Mozilla Festival, London UK

I will be in London from November 4-6 to take part in the Mozilla Festival. The festival will be at the Ravensbourne College in Greenwich (in the beginning of time—GMT.) The organizers are actively looking for more developers and designers to add rocket fuel for the Festival’s roster of design challenges and hack sprints. More specifically, they are looking for more: Javascript developers, HTML5 video and audio enthusiasts, front-end developers, news app developers, and other news hackers, to help build everything from data-driven journalism kits to mobile news apps to amazing browser-based video games that run right in the browser.