A few useful links regarding the Apple/Adobe feud

posted May 8th, 2010 by Constantin Ehrenstein in Flash Platform Discussion, Flash Platform News

In the last few weeks – in the wake of the release of Adobe’s Creative Suite 5, Apple’s iPad and Steve Job’s fittingly timed (and most importantly, partly factually incorrect) attacks on the Flash technology – I’ve read so many blog posts discussed with so many people in direct conversations, courses, and on conferences about the matter that I’m actually getting pretty tired of it.

At first, I thought about putting my 2 cents here, but since almost all points I’d like to make have been uttered elsewhere already (with varying degrees of verbosity), I’ll simply post interesting links to those places instead. (more…)


A turbulent, yet inspiring week at FFK10 in Cologne

posted April 18th, 2010 by Constantin Ehrenstein in FFK

Last week, the 10th edition of the FFK, the Flashforum conference, took place at the Mediapark in Cologne. The FFK is the greatest and most important conference for the Flash Platform in the German Tongue Region, and as usual Flash Platform celebrities from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland as well as from the international community came [...]


Apple now has turned to the Dark Side of The Force

posted April 9th, 2010 by Constantin Ehrenstein in Flash Platform News

Yesterday, Apple announced a significant tweak to their iPhone OS developer license agreement, Section 3.3.1. Changes are highlighted: 3.3.1 Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the [...]


The power of Agile Development

posted March 28th, 2010 by Constantin Ehrenstein in Agile Development, Development

I admit it: I’m an Agile Development freak. And even when I’m just planning my own week, I’m glad I’m doing it.


Adobe announces new Creative Suite 5 release for April 12

posted March 24th, 2010 by Constantin Ehrenstein in Flash Platform News

Today, Adobe announced that its new Creative Suite 5 will hit the shelves on April 12, 2010. After Adobe got much heat about performance and stability issues in the Creative Suite 4, there’s a good chance that the new set of creative products will meet the high expectations in the creative community. Public betas and [...]


Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 released

posted March 22nd, 2010 by Constantin Ehrenstein in Flash Platform News

Today, after months of working on the Flex frameworks under wraps and with amazing envolvement of the community, Adobe announced Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder 3) and the shiny new Flex 4 SDK.


A fresh start

posted March 22nd, 2010 by Constantin Ehrenstein in Unrelated

Finally, skiller.eu gets a major overhaul. You probably already know that programmers and other web professionals who mainly work as free lancer usually turn to their own sites last, so it turned out I am no exception. Not that I didn’t have ambitious plans with this site – there was just too much that got [...]