I have seen an increase of mobile hackathons, hack days, and/or startup weekends in the last year. Typically the format runs over 1-3 day timeframe, where teams come together and code up a storm. Typically prizes are decent, people are friendly, and its a great way to learn new things. I would definitely recommend it to students are others looking to network or learn some new skills. There are a couple that I wanted to point out since I am out...

I have been working on an application called Caltrain Times. It is available in quite a few marketplaces and runs across smartphones and tablets. I have made the source code for this application available on my github here. Adobe MAX is coming up in a few weeks and I will be speaking again at MAX. There has been some last minute changes and I will not be speaking on my original topic of Digital Fun in the Digital Home, but if you want to catch...

Flash Professional and Flash Builder both have mobile workflows. If you want to use the mobile workflow of Flash Builder with a Flash Professional project take a look at the video at the end of the post. The basic idea is to use Flash Professional and/or Flash Professional Project type in Flash Builder as the compilers. They compile the swf’s, but do not handle the packaging of the mobile application. Then you create a Flash Builder...

I have been working on a mobile application and finally have it released in the major marketplaces. It has been a great learning experience to go through the mobile developement process. The mobile application I have been working on is called Caltrain Times. The purpose of the application is to help commuters of the Caltrain system easily navigate the train schedules through a good looking interface. If you are not familiar with Caltrain, it...

With the release of the RC builds of AIR 3.0 and Flash Player 11 on labs more details about the coming runtimes is being discussed publicly. I want to focus on one of the new features called Native Extensions for AIR, Oliver Goodman does a great job explaining the feature and some of the details of how it works. To get more information you will not want to miss MAX 2011 in LA. Now to the why. Why would you use Native Extensions for AIR? Let us...

I am looking at doing some Android development to extend my AIR applications (AIR Native Extension). There is not a lot of public information on AIR Native Extensions but you can check out some information here. For those that really want to start playing with it right now you can apply for the private prerelease program here : https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=prerelease_interest In the rest of this post I’ll explain how...