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The Dear adobe web site allows you to express your dissatisfaction at Adobe products and service generally and specifically. It’s not run by Adobe but Adobe got involved 48 hours after the site was launched. Don’t know why nobody thought of this sooner.

John Nack wrote on this a few days ago and I’ve been to busy to catch up with what’s going on, so I only just saw it. This is an excellent idea and will bring real benefits if we all use it, so I just had to reiterate it here. It’s not like we haven’t all got our personal hates about what is otherwise truely excellent software, so go and express yourselves. You’ll be amazed just how many people feel the same way as you about pricing, installers, software etc

You can see comments in a top 50 format or a product specific format.

Well Microsoft made a decent move in having NBC use the Silverlight platform to view the footage on the Olympics in a fairly RIA manner. It was also a shrewed move to increase the Silverlight install base at the same time. All good marketing moves. MS certainly is living proof that if you market something hard enough, it’ll become the defacto standard. certainly Reuters are reporting the battle as being on again.

Adobe… WAKE UP! This could have been put to bed a long time ago. This is not about who’s platform is the best. Flash is clearly the best. It’s about who you tell. Perception is 9/10ths of reality. I used to be a Systems Manager a long time ago. I worked on DEC equipment (big servers), who were then bought put by HP and then became Compaq. The servers in question were Alpha servers and the OS was VMS. Read the rest of this entry »

All right you ‘orrible lot. Stand to attention when I’m shouting at you! On my command, register for the London Flex Camp later this month. wait for it…wait for it. Two, three, click here. (Sorry, to do this justice you really need to know who Sargent Major Windsor Davies is.)
Flex Camp London 08 is a FREE, community-run event for everyone interested in Adobe Flex! Whether you’re just getting started with Flex or you’re an expert, Flex Camp aims to provide something for you.
Adobe have lined up some of the most experienced Flex developers in the UK who will share their knowledge on everything from creating your first application, connecting to data, creating components and development best practices through to selecting an application framework for larger projects.

Roll up, roll up, Rob Bateman of Away3D and infinite Turtle fame, who is also a speaker at Flash Forward in San Francisco this year, has 2 tickets that he’s giving away at HALF PRICE. This is a rare deal.

It’s short notice I know, as FF is on the 20th-22nd August, but this is a premier event and the speakers are truely outstanding. Most intriguing for me is that THE Tinic Uro will be speaking. So if Tinic is speaking then I’m absolutely sure that new and upcoming features in the Flash player will be revealed in great technical detail. It’ll be a chance to tell the guy that physically builds the Flash player what features you want to see or ask about present features in the greatest of technical details. I would love to have a chance to talk with this guy, so I’m extra bummed that I can’t go.

There are 2 tickets available, so if you’d like one or both then email Rob directly at rob@infiniteturtles.co.uk, but I’d do it quick as these puppies will go quick.

That’s right, ON THE CAN. I’m organising a Flash user group in a communal toilet, or maybe I’ll broadcast it live from toilets around the world. But in essence, we’ll all sit on the can, take a dump and talk about Flash. Well really, everyone is creating Flash conferences these days and they all seem to be abroad. We only have FotB here in the UK so I thought I’d represent. We all have our best creative and development ideas on the can anyway, so it seemed an obvious premise.

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I realise that I am as guilty as anyone, as I run a Poker based event for Adobe software developers and creatives in London, but someone has come up with the brainstorm of combining Flash and Beer into a 3 day conference. That’s it. That’s the premise. Talk about reducing the experience to it’s basic components. This is a recipe for fun and carnage. It’s called Flash on Tap and it’s being held in Boston Mass USA. Can you imaging what the final talk will degenerate into? I speak with some experience on this matter. It will be like (for those of you who remember) the early days when Tink took over the London Flash Platform User Group (LFPUG) and set it up in a strip bar. Now THAT’S how to run a User Group. I was over in Boston a couple of years back at one of their User Groups and all I got was cold Pizza and to soberly listen to talk of pattern based development and drink a Lemonade Shandy afterwards in a quiet sports bar (Chris Allen was there to): It was educational and civilised, but it just wasn’t the same.

Anyway, you’re making me loose my train of thought. So, if you were the second speaker at the LFPUG back then you needed chicken wire fencing in front of you and some kind of rubber suit to keep all the beer and spit off you. And talk about heckling, wow. I saw grown developers reduced to tears. But I guess they were pretty drunk by then to. Actually…..it was GREAT. Maybe this Flash and Beer idea is going to be great after all. There are some truly superb speaker talking at it. The likes of Grant Skinner, Hoss Gifford, Mario Klingemann, Tink, Keith Peters, Brendan Dawes, Chris Allen and many, many more. Boston is a beautiful city and you can rock out of Brighton at the end of FotB on the 1st October, recover for 4 or 5 days and then rock straight into Boston for the start of Flash on Tap on the 7th October. If you want to go then check out the site. Hell, check it out anyway. I’m loving the embedded beer video in the intro. Nice touch.
If any of you are coming to Flash on the Beach then don’t forget to say hi. Sadly I won’t be able to make it to Boston as well. I don’t know how Tink affords it.