Category Archives: Flash Player

Take the Tour de Flex

By James Ward | Published: November 17, 2008

Over the past few months Greg Wilson, Christophe Coenraets, and myself have been hard at work on a secret project. So today we are proud to announce the new Tour de Flex has just gone live! Tour de Flex showcases the capabilities of Flex, BlazeDS, LCDS, Adobe AIR, and Flash Player (now collectively [...]

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Flash Player for 64-bit Linux – BETA NOW AVAILABLE!

By James Ward | Published: November 17, 2008

Getting Flash Player working on 64-bit Linux systems has been a challenge. But not anymore! Today Adobe Systems released a beta of native Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux! Check it out and report bugs to the open Flash Player bug database. Here is a short video I shot of me [...]

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Lets all get Drunk on Software!

By James Ward | Published: October 22, 2008

On a recent dreary Saturday afternoon in Denver my friend Jon Rose and I decided to give the video podcasting thing a try. The first episode is about the changes to the recently released Flash Player 10 that will impact software developers (primarily those of the Flex persuasion). When preparing to record the [...]

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Making Headway on Flash Player for 64-bit Linux

By James Ward | Published: August 22, 2008

It appears the Flash Player engineering team is making progress on 64-bit Linux support. There are no details yet on when this will ship. But I’m sure they could still use your help.

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Atlanta JUG and Chicago Flex and AIR Developers Group

By James Ward | Published: August 7, 2008

In a few weeks I’ll be stopping by the Atlanta Java User Group and the Chicago Flex and AIR Developers Group: Atlanta – August 19, 2008 – Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Java Chicago – August 20, 2008 – The Future of Flex, Flash Player, and AIR Hope to see you there!

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Where is 64-bit Linux support for Flash Player?

By James Ward | Published: May 16, 2008

I run 32-bit Linux but there is a very vocal group of people who really want 64-bit Linux support for Flash Player. Today there is a decent work around for running the 32-bit Flash Player on a 64-bit Linux system using the nspluginwrapper. From what I’ve heard it works fairly well on most [...]

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The Open Web: Now Sexier and Smaller

By James Ward | Published: April 30, 2008

In the past Open Web proponents have criticized Flash and Flex because the SWF specification – while being published and publicly available – limited what readers could do with the specification. More specifically the agreement to view the specification required that readers not build programs that would run SWF files. The intentions behind [...]

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Talkin’ About a Revolution

By James Ward | Published: April 23, 2008

Revolutions may be enabled by technology, but they are driven by people. Adobe’s recent announcements about Flex, Flash, and Adobe AIR on Linux are the most recent technology enablers for the software revolution that is currently underway. Usually I’m one of the first to post about Adobe’s Linux related announcements. My trip to Bangalore, [...]

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Bursting Bubbles

By James Ward | Published: April 10, 2008

Bubblemark is a popular benchmark for some of the RIA technologies including Flex, Adobe AIR, Ajax (DHTML), Java Swing, Java FX, Silverlight, etc. I’ve been trying for a while to create a new Flex version of Bubblemark to show just how fast Flash Player and Adobe AIR are. But I’ve come to a [...]

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