SapphireSteel has announced the release of Amethyst , their Flex, Flash and ActionScript IDE for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Check out the features and the introductory video. If you are a Visual Studio user, Amethyst may be exactly what you need to bridge the worlds of Flash and .NET....
The site is in Chinese, I know. But, in summary, the Adobe Flash Platform App Contest is a way for developers in China to build cool Flash and AIR apps and win prizes. ;-)
Hero is the codename for the next version of the Flex SDK. Deepa Subramaniam is the Flex SDK Product Manager, and she just announced that the first of what is planned to be semi-regular Hero builds has been posted.
The Wall Street Journal is running a story about the increased demand for Flash expertise.
Plants vs Zombies is one of my favorite casual games (my kids agree with me on this one). The original game was written in C++, and PopCap recently rewrote it in Flash . PopCap's Max Anderson will be attending MAX 2010 and will be talking about the port, and will be providing Flash performance...
Adobe Flash Summit Bangalore is about to begin. My fellow presenters Mark Doherty, Harish Sivaramakrishnan, and Anne Kathrine Petterøe are tweaking decks and testing demos. The crowds are starting to pour in ... here goes! Follow us on Twitter .
John Farrar has updated his ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial . Congrats, John!
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As per Gartner research reported in this InfoWorld story , Android is now the number one smartphone OS in North America (taking the top spot from RIM), and is third in the world.
Recently, Christophe Coenraets posted a great example of using the microphone API introduced in the latest builds of Adobe AIR for Android. And now Michaël Chaize has taken it a step further by posting an example of recording audio, and then manipulating WAV and MP3 files.