Flash Workshops
There are some excellent and very reasonably priced ($40) Flash workshops this week at New England Institute of Art. Topics include: Experimental AS3, Red5, Flex, and Game Development. Speakers include: Keith Peters, Chris Allen, Joey Lott and more. Good stuff. Check them out here. The workshops are part of the Boston Cyber Arts Festival.
Also, we are moving the Design Patterns group to the 2nd Wednesday of May as a result.
Adapter Pattern
Adapter Pattern Talk
Begins: Wed, 09 May 2007 at 7:00 PM
Ends: Wed, 09 May 2007 at 8:00 PM
Location:
Brightcove One Cambridge Ctr Cambridge, MA 02142 US
Link: map to Brightcove
Tags: flash designPatterns
Flash Penetration, Open Source Flex
New Flash penetration statistics were just released. Player 9 is up to 84%. This is great news. But, I wish the statistics offered more information – specifically home vs. work computers and age breakdowns. On the methodology page there is mention that most respondents are using home computers, but, work computers are not excluded. There is also a table showing a percentage breakdown of age groups surveyed – but no penetration stats by age. Obviously (I would think) penetration rates would be higher for younger users and home computers – but, I’d like to know how much higher. Why? Well, most of our work is for corporate clients. Age and work slices would give me a much better idea of the Flash penetration of our target audience. These slices would be important for non-corporate developers as well. Game devs probably don’t care that no one over 40 has Player 9. YouTube didn’t.
Nonetheless, I think Adobe is doing a great job pushing the latest version of the player out there. And certainly Flex is becoming a much more acceptable software solution for businesses than Flash ever was. (And yes I know Flex is Flash – it’s just the perception out there.)
In other good news, Adobe is open sourcing parts of Flex. This should also increase adoption. For more info on that try…
Ted Patrick – with links to even more info
Joe Berkovitz
Farata Systems Flex Blog
RSS Test
RSS feed doesn’t seem to be working for my last post. This is a test.
Digg Public API Flash Data Viz Contest
Digg has launched a public API – and with it, a contest. Great to see another public API – and I think this is the first public API data visualization Flash contest ever. Cool. API developed by Stamen. Looks like first place gets you all the EA Games out there and the CS3 Master Suite. Other prizes include other Adobe CS3 flavors.