Adobe Refresh – Australia, Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore

I’m really excited to be joining up with the crew for Adobe Refresh, which will cover some of the latest and greatest features for the Flash Platform as well as show off Adobe’s HTML story over a couple of weeks in March. We’re hitting a total of 6 cities in Australia, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Singapore. I’ll be tagging along with Richard Galvan, Paul Burnett, and Michael Stoddart.

The sessions are going to cover Flash Pro, HTML5, Flex/Flash Builder, Digital Publishing, and a Q&A for answering any questions you might have about the Adobe stack. Plus we’ll be showing off some things that most people won’t have seen live yet, so if you come, you’ll get a first crack at seeing some very cool stuff coming up from Adobe.

Here’s the full list of cities:

I’m looking forward to being able to see all of the community members in those countries as well as getting to show off the latest and greatest with the Flash Platform. I’ll be talking about multiscreen development with Flex and Flash Builder and there is some VERY good stuff for developers on the horizon when it comes to building apps across devices. This will be a great event to see it all come together.

Adobe Swag Auction to Help Earthquake Victims in China

This is not something that all of my readers will be able to take advantage of but I thought it was a really great example of Adobe and the community doing something to help out the people in China. We’ve donated some swag to the Hong Kong Flex and AIR User Group to be auctioned off. All of the proceeds will go to the earthquake victims and the winner of the auction can decide which specific charity the money goes to.

The auction is supposed to end on June 20th, but it doesn’t look like anyone has bid yet (I can’t tell if there’s a different website) so if you’re interested in something, bid away (1 U.S. dollar is around 8 HKD)!

Huge kudos to Vicker, the Hong Kong User Group, John Koch, and Ed Sullivan for helping out.