About a month ago, I checked the preparation guides page on Adobe.com for the ACE (Adobe Certified Expert) exam but none of the CS3 were online. Now this have changed and we can download all the preparation guides via Adobe.com.
That a good news as I have scheduled a test for the ‘Adobe Flash CS3 ACE Exam’ for the 16th of May :)
Does anyone know where to find other (free) preparation guides?
Ahmet
[via Scott Janousek's Blog]
[...]Adobe Systems CEO Shantanu Narayen said the company intends to bring its Flash Player to Apple’s iPhone.[...]
Whether and how Flash applications would run on Apple’s iPhone has been an open question since the device’s launch. Narayen’s comments indicate that Adobe will be able to create a version of Flash Lite for the iPhone.[...]
Read the full article from news.com.
So I might finally buy an iPhone ;)
Ahmet
That is a big news! The Flex Builder 3 Professional is now free for all students and edu customer:
Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro is available for free to all education customers. This includes all students, faculty and staff of eligible education institutions.
Wondering why you finished your study so early?
:)
Ahmet
In an over charged world of projects management and ideas, it sometimes hard to gather the attention to the ultimate decider (your boss or yourself) to use new technologies.
I started at the beginning of this week to seed (and water it ) my boss brain with new possibilities with AIR. Some techniques worked greatly and some did not…
I’ll try to gather all the different move I’ve made (and I’ll make) and let you know what to do and what to avoid ;)
My first step was to present to my boss what our existing technologies could be with AIR, all the advantages of desktop applications, supporting internal database, connections aware and finally demanding very few adjustment to our already existing application to be deployed.
Just told him about the few times involvement and the small budget to allocate and you’ll make a positive point in your argumentations.
The second day, very enthusiast I told him about the easy installation process and the lightweight of the plug-in: bad idea! Technical argument won’t, most of the time, speak to entrepreneurs.
If you are, like me, pushing your boss to shift to AIR, be smart and follow this thread ;=)
Any advices are welcome…
Ahmet
Interesting online presentation by Andrew Trice about ‘Programmatic Visualizations in AIR’ with Flex.
Full of nice examples, it’s already a bit old (November 2007) but you may have missed it, as I did :)
Access to the recorded presentation (Adobe ID is needed)
Download source code
Ahmet
Monday we had the AUGG (Adobe User Group Genève) meeting to celebrate the release of Adobe AIR and FLEX 3.0. I had a camera recorder during the meeting and I asked several questions (Why AIR? Why Flex? Why Flash? Why Not Silverlight?). The answer are funny & serious at the same time :)
If you want to join us for the next event, just keep looking at AUGG!
View all the video of this meeting on YouTube
I want to thanks everyone who answered the questions, as it’s not easy to improvise when you are eating and drinking :)
Ahmet
Interesting article from Ecrans.fr where they interviewed Simon Hayhurst, director of video numeric products at Adobe, and Frédéric Massy, marketing director, about the presence of Adobe and his future.
Read the translated version (originally text is in French).
Here are a few interesting quotes:
[...]Flash is not in fact open-source for the moment, but we are not against it
[...]The web is an environment which is changing very rapidly, and we have the R & D teams to advance Flash the best as possible. But one can imagine that, in due course, when the format will be more mature, Flash will also be open source.
[...]Yes, we have a few projects related to Flash. We have a Media player in development, to take advantage of Internet video. It is a sector that has actually just started, and that has a tremendous growth curve. And then there is AIR, which is a technology that allows applications to create classics, but related websites. It is a tool to be always connected, even without launching a Web browser.[...]
Ahmet
