I have just written up a new tutorial on getting started Flex2/AS3 development with FlashDevelop. The tutorial should take about 30 minutes to complete and should get you up and running ready to get into Flex2 with AS3. Read the Flex2/AS3 with FlashDevelop tutorial
Continue readingThis is certainly not anything groundbreaking, however I thought it might be useful to offer a step by step guide to getting up and running for Flex2/AS3 development without spending a bean on software*. *N.B. gaping flaw in comment: you will however need Windows to do all of this which is of course not free. [...]
Continue readingOne of the challenges Adobe face with Apollo will be how wide an audience they can reach in a short amount of time. The golden target would be of course, to reach similar levels of adoption as the Flash Player. However this is a mamouth task and will certainly not happen over night. The other [...]
Continue readingLarry Constantine writes about an alternative to User Centred Product Development (a development approach focusing on users). The discussed alternative is Activity Centred Development which moves focus towards the job in hand that is to be done by the users. Some interesting points that stand out to me: Designing for use rather than for users [...]
Continue readingAfter reading a comment recently about the number of windows application developers who will jump on the RIA bandwagon with the introduction of WPF, I got to wondering if the argument stands the other way round. The initial comment was along the lines of “Windows application devs don’t understand that web apps are different…” which, [...]
Continue readingHave just confirmed with Tink that in Feburary I’ll be doing a presntation on Apollo at the London Flash Platform User Group. More info when I have prepared a little more.
Continue readingRyan Stewart has a blog post containing an interview with Alan Lewis of with EffectiveUI who are the developers of an Apollo app in development for eBay known as the San Dimas project. I saw a demo of this app at FOTB and it looks very impressive. One particular part grabbed my interest: “Alan also [...]
Continue readingI made a rather long post about Apollo in general, I intend to explore in a little more depth some of the opportunities that will arise as Apollo emerges onto the scene. One of my first thoughts is on the implications of being able to create rich internet (desktop integrated) apps without any of the [...]
Continue readingI finally decided to get a new look to the blog, I’ve chosen Vistered Little by Nik Iliadis check out his site The Scary Little Monkey for some of the best looking works I’ve seen for any blog. I’m hoping to create and add some custom Flash widgets in the future, but seeing as it’s [...]
Continue readingThis post is written from some notes I took at Mike Chambers’ Presentation @ FOTB – Apollo. This is very much as at time of writing and it is very likely that some of this will quickly become out of date information. If anyone spots any glaring mistakes please post a comment and I will [...]
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