http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart on the Flash Platform Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:18:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Flash Platform is coming to Android. Today HTC is shipping their Android-based HTC Hero smartphone and it's the first Android device with Flash on it. There was a lot of news this week about Adobe delivering the full Flash Player 10 experience in the browser and this is an ... http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/06/htc-hero-is-the-first-android-phone-with-flash-support/ I was lucky enough to be asked to judge the Flash Lite Developer Challenge in which we gave away a lot of prize money ($15,000 USD for each category winner and $30,000 USD for the grand prize). I continue to be impressed with what you can do with Flash Lite. ... http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/06/congrats-to-the-flash-lite-developer-challenge-winners/ This was posted a couple of days ago but I forgot to blog about it. I got a chance to talk with Raffaele Sena on the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service team about some of the things you can do with the REST APIs that we expose in AFCS. You can ... http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/06/tech-talk-with-ryan-stewart-on-rest-apis-in-afcs/ Registration is now open for MAX 2009 in Los Angeles from October 4th - 7th. If you register before August 31st you get the early bird pricing of $200 off. I've been involved with MAX this year as a camp manager and seeing how this all comes together from the ... http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/06/max-registration-open-and-sessions-starting-to-finalize/ Today we've published the RTMP (Real-Time Messaging Protocol) specification as part of the Open Screen Project so that anyone can download it and add RTMP functionality to their applications or code. We announced that we were going to be opening it up earlier this year and now it's available. RTMP ... http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/06/the-rtmp-spec-is-released-published-and-available/ Last night the Acrobat.com team pushed out Acrobat.com Tables, a spreadsheet tool that lets you use all of the same collaboration features of Buzzword and Presentations with Microsoft Excel-like functionality. It's got a lot of your basic spreadsheet functionality so you can use a number of complex formulas and you ... http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/06/the-online-office-trifecta-at-acrobatcom-documents-presentations-and-now-a-spreadsheet/ One of my Adobe TV videos just got posted on using ColdFusion tags inside of Flex with some of the new functionality in ColdFusion Centaur. As an old school CF developer I love the fact that I can now take advantage of the power of CF from directly inside my ... http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/06/using-coldfusion-as-a-service-inside-of-flex/ Greg and Christophe are running a contest to see who can come up with the coolest data visualization for all of the real time data that's coming into the Tour De Flex Dashboard. The prizes are an ILOG Elixir license and a copy of Web Premium CS4. Greg has the code ... http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/06/win-a-copy-of-ilog-elixer-and-creative-suite-4-by-showing-off-flex-data-visualization/ As I think I've mentioned before, I think the new layout model in Flex 4 is one of the most powerful features of the new framework. It's going to allow for some very interesting customizations with lists and allow designers and developers to create expressive content. Evtim, an engineer on ... http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/06/evtim-is-blogging-all-about-flex-4-layouts/ Adobe Stratus is a hosted beta service that uses new RTMFP functionality in Flash Player 10 to connect directly instead of having to round trip between the server and the instance of the player. I chatted with Laurel Reitman and Jozsef Vass about the benefits of RTMFP and Stratus. At ... http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/06/building-a-p2p-chat-application-with-adobe-stratus/