Adobe Live: Apollo - the future...

This time, 10 minutes about Adobe Apollo, very nice presentation from Daniel Dura, Apollo & Flash Evangelist from Adobe.
Click the play button to play the video


Even though the option to create Apollo files from Dreamweaver didn't work in the presentation, this option looks really promising as its nice, easy & simple.

salut!

London Adobe Live: Developer Event

PICT0015, originally uploaded by Ernesto Quezada.

Daniel Dura, from Adobe, opens the Adobe Live Developer event in London, two days ago.

I heard they were expecting 1700 people for this event but not even half of them turned up, Mike Jones said it might have been due to the nice weather we had that day (not usual in London...) and because most of the people were working at that time... Some people forgot about it (hi Mike!), some people turned up later (how's going Tink?), some people left early (hey Dan Todd!)...

I think we have heard already many things that were said during that event, either in the London Flash Platform User Group meetings or from any blog in the MXNA (for example), or in any other presentation; although is always good to go to these sort of events to refresh your mind and FEED your IMAGINATION! as their slogan goes.

After almost 10 hours and many different presentations, we were given all the beers and food they had ready for these 1700 people; imagine being there with all these cool guys (Richard, Carlos, Elmer, etc) of course I got drunk and went home with some pictures, 30 minutes of video and a big smile :)

salut!

Testing yourminis widgets

I'm just testing how the youminis widgets engine works.
I must say it was easy to put a widget on the blog, I just selected the widget and chose "copy to web", a blogger icon appeared and I was asked my gmail address and password, pressed copy it! and there you go:



That was really simple.
Of course there where many more options, like Hi5, mySpace, Typepad and many more.
yourminis has lots of potential, specially because they are cross platform in any sense, not only due to the nature of their platform, Flash, that we know can be seen in any browser in any operative system that has the plug-in, but because they can be downloaded to the desktop thanks to Adobe Apollo alpha.
Yeah, any widget in yourminis can be downloaded to the desktop. I think is fantastic!

Salut!

My first alpha Apollo alpha app

eh?

well,
as Adobe Apollo is still alpha, it lacks many things including support for html-flash based applications in some specific areas.
Seems like this first release targets mainly Flex developers as it has much more support for Flex applications, for instance dragging, closing, maximising applications, etc.
Therefore, as is coming from a Flash movie, my first application is in alpha stage but as I still find it pretty cool, I'm releasing it.
It doesn't have a close button so you would need to press Alt+F4 to close it or right click on the taskbar and select "close"



You would need the Apollo Runtime to be able to run this application.
Description: Ants running on your desktop that interact with your mouse. You can still use all other applications while this one is running.

Any feedback is very welcomed!