I came across this excellent post today about the “openness” of Flash.  It is by Duane Nickull*, rockstar and SOA-guru at Adobe, and he talks about how people still perceive Flash to be a proprietary technology.  It is definitely a great read for anyone using Flash.  I won’t re-iterate anything from the post because he […]

Adobe Flash Player, self-proclaimed as “the world’s most pervasive software platform” certainly can hold that title.  The results that I’ve given not only show the Flash Player to be ever-prevalent, but also (and more importantly) ever-growing.  With each successive release taking less and less time to reach 85%+ adoption worldwide is amazing, and I don’t […]

This is a quick glance at the worldwide usage of Flash Player across all versions.  A look at the graph below will tell you that the Adobe Flash Player is used on an approximate 96% of all Internet-connected computers!1  This is a staggering statistic.  A closer look at the graph will show that the Flash […]

Here is a simple look at the duration it takes for previous Flash Player versions to spread1…
Flash Player 5 - over 5 years to reach 96% or higher adoption
Flash Player 6 - over 3 years to reach 93% or higher adoption
Flash Player 7 - just over 2 years to reach 85% or higher adoption
Flash Player […]

Since starting at Adobe, I’ve been exposed to a lot of the new and exciting technologies that they are releasing…Flash 9, Flex 2 and Apollo!  What do they all have in common?  They all are based off of the Flash Player 9 run-time.  So, just as an experiment out of curiosity to see what kind […]

Adobe has just announced that Flash Player 9 for Linux is now available in the Download Center. Nothing much else to say about that…Linux users rejoice!
Keep up to date with more Flash Player announcements by following Emmy Huang, product manager for Flash Player at Adobe.
Charles

In a previous post, I mentioned that there was a new tool on Adobe.com for Flex developers, the Flex Cookbook. It’s a great idea and it’s growing quite steadily. I’ve since made my first contribution about one of the most important components in any project…documentation. It’s a small article covering an often-overlooked feature of ASDoc, […]

Developer.com holds annual contests, covering various topics and categories, mainly for…you guessed it…developers.  There are categories such as best “Framework”, “Development Tool”, “Database Tool or Add-In”.  Flash Lite 2 took the title for this years best “wireless/mobile development tool”.  Not only did it win, but it dominated the category, winning by some of the widest margins […]

There are quite a few open source ActionScript 3.0 libraries that Adobe has…Flickr, YouTube, Mappr, Corelib, to name a few…and with the addition of the new eBay library (the one used in the San Dimas project), Adobe has decided to make the move from Adobe Labs to Google Code. There are a few reasons […]

Waterloo has been at the forefront of technology and computer science for quite some time. Now, they are taking another leap forward, and thankfully, they’re taking the industry with them. As of today, they have officially started their pilot for their “Media and Mobility Network Project” which, for those of you that don’t […]