Magic Pictures Flash, jQuery, Moodle Developer Ottawa

On Saturday, August 28, 2010  I attended the Ottawa Mobile Developer day at the Adobe building in Ottawa. 

 There were numerous presenters talking about various mobile technologies including iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7 as well as how they intersected with the Flash Platform and Adobe AIR.  There was also a presentation on the emerging HTML 5 browser technologies and mobile.

 This conference seemed to be part of the overall strategy and emphasis Adobe has made for Flash and mobile technologies.  Flash's strengths seem to be its cross platform capability (minus the iPhone however as we know Apple refuses to support the Flash player on either iPhone or iPad).  Another interesting use of Flash was for quick prototyping for say an iPhone application as developer Paulo Fierro showed for his bicycle parking application. We could see more of this now that Apple has lifted its ban on iPhone application development done with Flash tools (different issue than the Flash player on the iPhone).

Just came back from the Adobe building in Ottawa where the Flex/Flash Platform User Group meeting was held.  A neat presentation on Tink's Efflex transitions for Flex by group manager Tristan and another excellent presentation on Papervision 3D by Michel Boudreau.  Also in the house was the crew from Big Blue Button, the powerful open source web conferencing solution.