Adobe AIR on Ulitzer

After casting a pall on the future of Flash by canceling any further development of Flash on mobile devices last week, Abode has abandoned its Flash-based Flex application SDK to the tender mercies of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), reinforcing the idea that Flash is ultimately toast, burned by rival HTML5, a posthumous victory for Steve Jobs who openly loathed Adobe's stuff. Flash's future looks bleaker still considering Flex can build both desktop and mobile apps. The Apache Foundation will have to vote on whether it will take Flex and its roadmap under its wing. Flex has been open source since 2008 but will have to shift out from under Adobe's control and be managed as an independent project. Adobe says it's working on proposals for ASF to incubate both the core Flex SDK and BlazeDS, the messaging system for pushing data from a back-end Java EE server to... (more)

Adobe MAX 2011 Was Good Despite The Keynotes

Just came back from LA, where I spent three days at MAX – the main Adobe conference. Four people from our company were there and all liked it. I went there to see if the company is still strong,  has a clear road map that, hopefully, matches  my understanding of where IT population is moving. Adobe does seem strong despise the bleak keynotes. I mean, the special effects were fine, the screen was huge, the projection software was pushing three million pixels a second to the monitors with showing ballet dancer and iPads running Adobe’s software. Our seats were shaken from the bass... (more)

Thinking of Flex in London

After running an advanced Flex training in London with my colleague Victor, we kept asking ourselves, “Why did we like it better than many of similar events from the past?” No, it’s not because London is a nice city to visit. It’s not because you hear "dear" and "darling" all the time. The reason is simple - this was the strongest (from the skill set perspective) group we’ve ever had. Go Europe, go! Besides people from UK, we’ve had attendees from Holland, Belgium, Norway and even one person (very strong) from South Africa. Does it mean that European Flex developers are better th... (more)

Adobe’s Building a Cloud

In the fashion of the times Adobe is building a cloud and in the fashion of Adobe it's called the Creative Cloud. Adobe calls it a major "transformative" new initiative. It's meant to sell classic Adobe desktop and newfangled tablet applications. Adobe's got a half-dozen cross-platform Touch Apps for content creation on tablets, Android to start in mid-November, Apple next year despite Apple's rejection of Adobe's Flash widgetry. In response to Apple's distain Adobe seems to be moving increasingly to the more acceptable HTML 5. For instance, it's buying Vancouver-based Nitobi So... (more)

Research and Markets: Solutions for App Developers and Publishers to Reduce Development Costs and Time to Market: A Detailed Report

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/736460/solutions_for_deve) has announced the addition of the "Solutions for Developers and Publishers to Reduce Development Costs and Time to Market" report to their offering. With the application development market becoming a mass market and the ongoing platform fragmentation, there has been a strong demand for tools/solutions which make the app creation process more efficient. This report from industry experts Research2Guidance shows how to improve efficiency. The report provides a detailed overview of some domin... (more)