Specialist for Rich Internet Applications and UI-Design

If your Flex/Flash Builder has suddenly problems connecting to your Flash debugger, you might be using Google Chrome. It seems like Google started bundling the Flash Player together with Chrome, which has an automatic updating engine (in the background) and thus you probably didn't notice the update. Currently, there are two workarounds for this: Manually replace the Chrome Flash player with the debugger version (Thanks to Josh for the how-to). Use a different browser for testing your Flash applications in. Workaround #1 Go to chrome://plugins and disable the following entry (o ... read the full article

Note: This is not a posting about introducing Gordon. This article describes a concept of automatically porting the Flash Player to JavaScript in a generic way, based on the idea of Gordon and Adobe Alchemy. You might know Gordon, an experimental attempt of implementing the Flash Player runtime environment, completely written in JavaScript (by Tobey Tailor). Demos have already shown, that this is possible. The idea itself is great: Create a Flash application as you're used to and then compile it into a SWF file. Then, embed it together with Gordon into your website like this: < ... read the full article

There has a lot of discussion going around in the past days about the big Adobe vs. Apple issues. All because of Flash. Steve doesn't like Flash. He says, it's buggy, slow and unstable, which I, as a Flash developer, must agree to partially. But this is only one side of the medal. While the Flash player itself isn't that great, the development tools provided by Adobe, like Catalyst, Flash Builder or Flash Professional, are really awesome. For me, as a traditional software engineer coming from Java programming, all these tools are absolutely professional, easy to use and really enhance th ... read the full article

Dear HTC, this month I wanted to buy myself a new android smartphone. After scanning the market for several weeks, I ended up with your HTC Legend and HTC Desire phones. So I had to make a decision based on the pro and cons: The Legend definately looks damn sexy. Its aluminium-body makes it feel like a rock-solid piece of art, but in the same time it comes to my mind that this phone would be a little lighter if made of plastic. Android 2.1 is great but since the Desire also comes with this version of Google's operating system, this is not a plus. The screen is a bit smaller compar ... read the full article

To be honest, I don't really like Silverlight apps, but Tagxedo is truly great. Just enter a website's url (or just plain words) of your choice and it will generate a cloud for you, based on its content, as shown in the image below. Variable parameters include font size, color, alignment and shape. The app itself feels a bit buggy and the export-to-png didn't work quite properly for me, so I had to take a screenshot instead, but still, the idea itself it brilliant. ... read the full article