Is it “game over” for Flash?
In recent months, Adobe have abandoned Flex and abandoned supporting Flash themselves on Linux and browsers for mobile operating systems. They instead are introducing new premium (ie costs-you-money) features and are marketing Flash as a game development solution. They will be supporting games on (non-Linux) desktops using AIR and browser plugins, and on mobile, using AIR and native compilation.
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“An Update on Flex”, London February 2012
Monday 20th February, the sun had set on London and one hundred or so folk gathered near Waterloo station for special Flex London User Group (FLUG) meeting. It was a presentation by Adobe on what is happening with Flex from their perspective. We were treated to a personal visit from Deepa Subramaniam, along with the new Flash Builder product manager, Adam Lehman and evangelist Michael Chaize. It was an interestingly frank presentation, with plenty of questions asked, many of them answered in a positive way. In addition, Peter Elst and Tink discussed what was happening with Apache Flex.
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Project Goshawk – Apache Flex’s own compiler?
Yesterday, Adobe published their long-awaited “roadmap” for Flex: Adobe’s view of Flex and its commitments to Flex in the future. Sadly for those of us involved in the Apache Flex podling, the following piece is seriously bad news:
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Flex, logos and the impossible quest for something original
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Writing a node.js module in CoffeeScript
This article seeks to detail how to write a node.js module in CoffeeScript, for both Windows and Linux. The Linux instructions may well work on OS X too, but as I do not have a Mac, I haven’t tested that environment. The article takes you through ensuring node.js and required modules are installed, that the coffee-script library can be accessed and then on to writing, installing and running an executable module. Finally it shows you some refactoring to enable all of the module code to be written in CoffeeScript.
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Project FlaXe update: RIP Project FlaXe
Back in November, just after Adobe announced they were donating Flex to Apache, I posted a suggestion for a Flex salvage project. This project would involve porting the Flex AS3 code to haXe and using the latter’s ability to target JavaScript to turn Flex into a framework that could run on HTML5.
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Beginners guide to using CoffeeScript on Windows with node.js
With Adobe’s relegation of Flash to the web sidelines last November, I finally decided that maybe I should take a serious look at JavaScript. One of the first things I discovered was a beautifully simple, elegant and lightweight “syntactic sugar” language built on JavaScript called CoffeeScript. So I figured I’d install the compiler and get experimenting…
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JavaScript is a toy language, but that is a good thing
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Flex is dying. Get over it and move on, or get involved in re-inventing it
The summit seems to have divided opinion: some feel that Adobe are abandoning Flex to die; others feel it is an exciting opportunity for the Flex community. To my mind there is no dichotomy here: Adobe are abandoning Flex and that creates an exciting opportunity for the Flex community. It also creates some challenges and there is a danger that many in the community seem to be in denial of those challenges.
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Try { harder } 2011. Days 3 & 4
After a full day’s pair programming workshop, day 3 (Wednesday) was a much more normal conference-style day involving a series of technical presentations.
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