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Developing with Flash Lite - New Video Tutorial Series

drankine — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:23:52 +0300

I've been working on a series of new Flash Lite developer tutorial videos for Adobe, called "Developing with Flash Lite".

The series aims to guide developers of all levels through the tools and techniques used when creating content for the Flash mobile platform. It's covering broad concepts as well as how-to code samples, in what I hope is an easy-to-watch format for peopl. There's two videos that have already been released, with many more on the way:

You can catch the videos as they are released over on Vimeo, or you can also follow @flashmobile on Twitter for updates.

January Flash Lite eSeminars

drankine — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:41:43 +0200

In 2009 I'll be continuing the regular Flash Mobile eSeminars for the Adobe Pacific office (www.adobeeseminars.com.au)and there's two coming up in January:

January 21st: Mobile Workflow in Adobe Creative Suite 4 - This session will look at the various ways that products within the CS4 family touch on the mobile platform and interact with Device Central CS4
January 22nd: Creating Mobile Phone Wallpapers for Designers - This session is for non-Flash designers who might use Illustrator already, and showing how to create mobile specific artwork and test using Device Central

All sessions are at 2pm (AEDST) (Sydney GMT +10) - check your timezones here.

The session rooms I think are still being updated by the Adobe team at the moment from last year, but you will be able to join the session at pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/mobile or register for more upcoming sessions at www.adobeeseminars.com.au.

I'm also running some poll questions each month on my bliog this year, relating to various aspects of Flash Lite and the mobile platform. Why not check them out and give me your thoughts - head over to www.dalerankine.com and have look on the right-hand side. This month's question regarding the kind of Flash Lite training seminars people would like to see will certainly help me to propose the next batch of eSeminar topics and make sure that I'm delivering some content that people will find useful.

Flash Lite eSeminars

drankine — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:54:59 +0300

Since July this year I've been delivering regular online seminars for the Adobe Pacific office on topics related to Flash Lite. These presentations are designed for an introductory-level look at various aspects of the Flash Lite ecosystem, for designers, developers and business-minded people.

This week I'm delivering a session looking at the various implementations of Flash Lite that are out there. Nokia devices support Flash Lite in a wide variety of ways which all cater for different types of content, consumer groups and opportunities for developers.

I have one coming up this week, but the remainder of the year looks like this:

Oct 15 - Adobe Flash Lite Implementations
Oct 29 -Device Central CS4
Nov 12 - Adobe Flash Lite and Mobile Gaming
Nov 26 - Adobe Flash Lite and Nokia Series 40
Dec 10 - Packaging Options for Adobe Flash Lite

They're always on a Wednesday at 2pm (AEDT/Sydney). You can register for these events here, plus I also have a schedule (with links) on my personal blog at www.dalerankine.com/blog. The sessions are recorded so if you miss them (or are in a bad timezone for catching them live) you can always watch them later from the Adobe Pacific eSeminars site.