Skiller

There’s a saying that there’s only two kinds of people: those who have lost data and those who will.

I probably belong into both groups – not only have I lost truckloads of data in the past, but recent events show me that there will always be a slight chance to lose data, no matter how care- and thoughtful you are.

To make a long story short: my server crashed, the backup was corrupted, I had to have the data on the hard disks retrieved and the server reinstalled – all that while being head-down in the video2brain recording studio for my Android 2 Tutorial.

Alas, the task has now been fulfilled, the server is back online – there might be still a few rough edges, but it’s back on. *phew*

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]