The folks over at Appcelerator have posted an interesting summary of a survey of their developers regarding mobile OS priorities. What makes it interesting is that Appcelerator facilitates development on desktop OSs as well as iOS and Android, so (you'd assume that) they'd not be overly biased...
I am not a big fan of comparing technologies using simple performance tests. These tend to never convince the naysayers, they make fans sound rabid at times, and the tests themselves are always called into question. So, I held my applause when reading recent articles comparing Flash and HTML5 (...
You visit RIAForge regularly, right? Good! Well, now you have 1,000 reasons to visit. Yep, yesterday Ray Camden announced that RIAForge is now hosting 1,000 projects (over 80% of them ColdFusion related)! Awesome!
As per Wikipedia, WebSocket is a technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels, over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket, designed to be implemented in web browsers and web servers but can be utilized by any client or server application. Nathan Mische...
MAX 2010 early bird registration closed last week. But, group discounts are still available for three or more attendees from the same company. And as they did last year , the MAX team has graciously allowed me to create a group of my own, a "Friends of Ben" group, which can qualify for the group...
The Samsung Galaxy Tab is a slick 7" Android 2.2 tablet that comes with Flash Player 10.1 I got to play with one this week, and here's an introductory video I recorded for Adobe TV.
Last year's RIA Unleashed was a big success, and so the team is doing it again. RIA Unleashed Boston 2010 runs November 11-12, and already boasts an impressive speaker and session lineup. And, as an added bonus, RIA Unleashed and 360|Flex have paired up to give you a price break if you attend both...
Adobe Flash Player "Square" is a preview release of our 64bit Flash player for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux operating systems. It also provides enhanced support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Beta. We are publishing this preview so that users can test existing content and new platforms for...
Adobe AIR Product Manager Rob Christensen has posted a really impressive list of AIR sneak peak sessions planned for MAX 2010 . Some of these were only just added to the schedule, so if you've already been picking your sessions, you may want to take another look at the lineup.
We extended MAX 2010 early bird pricing once before, but won't be doing it again. As announced on the MAX blog, early bird pricing ends tomorrow, September 15th.