Introductory Flash Lite eSeminars

Adobe Pacific are running a series of eSeminars on Flash Lite, with yours truly speaking at each of them on various topics related to Flash Lite development and the wider ecosystem.

These are targeted as introductory sessions that don't get too heavy on code samples, but take a look at some of the features and aspects of Flash Lite, and how they relate to real world solutions or products.

This week's session was on Flash Lite and the Nokia Web Runtime (WRT) platform, and you can find the recording of that sessions here.

Here's the schedule for the upcoming eSeminars:

• July 9th - Adobe Flash Lite Widgets for the Chumby
• July 23rd - Reactive Mobile Content with Adobe Flash Lite
• Aug 6th - Persistent Data in Adobe Flash Lite
• Aug 20 - Tips and Tricks for Effective Adobe Flash Lite development

Each of the sessions can be accessed by visiting http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/mobile, and start at 2pm (AEST - +10 GMT).

Thanks to the local Adobe office for organising these, in amongst the other regular eSeminars that they run each week (up to about 7 per week now!)

Upcoming Adobe Mobile eSeminars

There are a number of upcoming Adobe eSeminars related to mobile development which would be worthwhile checking out:

Getting Started with Flash Lite 3 and CS3
Presenter: Bill Perry
Monday, March 24, 2008
11:00 A.M. PDT

Flash Lite and Flex for Tourism
Presenters: Michael Epstein/Ira Hochman
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
11:00 A.M. PDT

Blood from a Stone: Flash Game Optimization on Low-end mobile devices
Presenter: Evan Kirchhoff
Thursday, March 27, 2008
1:00 P.M. PDT

Register for these sessions here

Developing Adobe Flash Lite 3 Applications for Nokia Devices

Bill Perry is delivery an upcoming webinar for Flash Lite 3 application development. Here are the details:

Wednesday, October 24, 20079:00 A.M. PDT

With more than 62 different Nokia models worldwide with Flash Lite pre-installed, the market opportunity for developing mobile Flash content is expanding, and you can be a part of it. The newest version of Flash Lite supports ActionScript 2.0 and introduces support for Flash Video (found on sites like YouTube) based on Flash Player 8. See Flash Lite 3 examples on the latest and greatest Nokia devices and learn how you can get started with Flash Lite development. This eSeminar will introduce you to the entire workflow for Flash Lite 3 development, from concept, to design, to determining addressable devices, to selling your content and getting paid. Learn how to create compelling content for multiple devices by using the integrated development environment of Adobe Creative Suite® 3 tools, including Flash, Device Central, Photoshop®, Premiere Pro®, and After Effects®.

By attending this session you will learn:

• The difference between Flash Lite 2.x and 3
• How to embed an FLV into your Flash Lite 3 application
• New security settings that you need to be aware of

Attend an eSeminar and you'll be entered to win a copy of Adobe Flash Professional CS3 or an iriver Clix.

Register here. Questions? Please send us an e-mail.

My gig at Adobe MAX 2007 in Chicago

The Adobe MAX 2007 site posted up the speakers last night and I'm happy to say that my name was on it. It's like getting picked for the basketball team all over again ... ahh the memories. Anyway, I'm going to be doing a new kind of session this year - tag team presenting with my mate Alessandro Pace of Biskero.org fame for a session called "20 Tricks to Improve Flash Lite Development". Should be a lot of fun!

The at-a-glance agenda has also been posted.

I'm going to be helping out James too with his pre-conference training day on Flash Lite 2. I did this last year too for James, and it was like running with the bulls - casue of the limited time and amount of content, he gets through the training like he's on speed, and everyone in the room (including his teaching assistants!) just have to hang on for the ride :) Love ya work Kim Chi.

Also at MAX this year, there are a number of product "boot camps" - basically they're like 3 hour birds-of-a-feather sessions that go into detail on various aspects of specific products. A lot of the mobile user group managers from around the world will be involved in the running of the Flash Lite / Mobile and Devices Boot Camp. This is a great initiative which will allow us to get some good visibility at a conference which will be dominated by AIR, Flex, PDF and LiveCycle.

Really looking forward to the end of Septemer :)

Total Training goes online

Total Training is launching an online service for its training resources. This is a great initative and one that I'm sure will see their range of products taken up by many more students. Don't forget for you mobile enthusiasts there's Flash Lite 2.x training up there that many people have already purchased and found very useful.

• Premium quality, in-depth videos, produced in high definition
• Online access to Adobe software training 24/7
• Extraordinary, beautiful interface packed with features

Read more here - http://www.totaltraining.com/landing/online.asp?c=blog&n=ttbz

C++ and Flash Lite

The Mobile and Devices User Group in Italy is holding the following face to face seminar. Speakers are Vassilis Legakis and Giorgio Natili.

• April 25th in Athens, Greece
• "C++ and Flash Lite" - http://www.makingwireless.it/?page_id=3

Outline of the seminar:

• Introduction to Symbian C++
• Major differences to classic C++ development
• Brief introduction to FlashLite
• FlashLite and the network
• FlashLite and external applications
• Integration between Flashlite and C++

If you're in the area, this would be well worth getting along to!

Total Training Flash Lite DVD Excerpts on Adobe.com

Adobe.com have posted some excerpts from my recently released training DVD - Total Training for Adobe Flash Lite 2.1 : Creating Mobile Applications. You can find the tutorials in the Flash Lite Dev Centre.

You can watch video samples from the "Handling Device Keypress Events" section, featuring topics like:

• Adding ActionScript 2.0 to control soft keys
• Creating a global key listener
• Defining key functions
• Changing visual content on key events

Enjoy!

Total Training for Adobe Flash Lite 2.1 - Available Now

I'm happy to announce that Total Training for Adobe Flash Lite 2.1, presented by yours truley, is now available for purchase. Thanks very much to everyone at Total Training and Adobe for giving me the opportunity to work on this product. I hope that Flash developers looking to move into mobile get something out of it (we're assuming that you already know Flash when watching this, so a lot of the Flash basics get a general overview) and are encouraged to get into Flash for mobile. Order your copy now!

Flash Lite 2.1 Software Training Videos from Total Training

Happy New Year and happy book launch

Happy New Year everyone, welcome to 2007. We start the year off with the release for sale of the new Flash Lite book - Foundation Flash Applications for Mobile Devices written by Flash Lite dudes Richard Legget, Scott Janousek and Weyert de Boer.

Great examples of mobile applications and development techniques - well worth a read for anyone in Flash Lite development. Congratulations to the authors!

It's a Wrap on Total Training for Flash Lite 2.1

Well, today was my final day at Total Training filming the Flash Lite 2.1 training DVD. It's been an exhausting 2 weeks since MAX, so a VERY exhausting 3 weeks since I left home on this US adventure. The guys at TT, especially John, Jason and Ryan have been so great to work with. They really made a long and intense job become quite fun and I had a ball hanging out with them and the rest of the gang. I'm looking forward to seeing the final result, from here all the editing and post production is done - it's a really slick process they have there and some very talented people all doing their job to create these great training resources. By the way, there's an excerpt of John Ulliman's recent Total Training for Flash DVD on the Adobe Mobile and Devices Developer Centre, demonstrating some techniques for creating mobile content.

I've now got a day left to do some gift shopping and sight seeing in Manhatten before heading back. When I arrived the leaves were all turning and now most of them are bare - I think Mother Nature is telling me it's time to go home before it gets too cold ... oh no ... wait on ... that's my wife :) I can't wait to get home!