Serge Jespers published a list of Adobeans on twitter. we were surprised to see that not a single Adobe mobile related person or product is on Twitter! In order to follow more active Flash on Mobile guys on twitter we thought it would be cool to make up a list of key people who are active on twitter. Check out the list at Thomas Joos’ blog and if you are interested in Flash on Mobile we recommend you to follow all these guys and keep in sync!
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In WebDesigner’s 13th edition we got published with an interview as a result of the Max Award we won in Milan. In the ‘Behind The Scenes’ section Thomas is talking about Flash and the iPhone, Boulevart and our vision on mobile in general. We are very proud to represent Boulevart in one of the most cutting-edge multimedia magazines in the Netherlands!
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Last week, Luc, Wim and Thomas went on a business trip to Berlin and Luxemburg. Nothing to be really that excited about. A few guys flying to Germany to have some meetings, what about that? Well, they did not really flew over there actually. No, they also didn’t traveled by train or by car. As real mobile nerds they used a mobilehome!
It was Luc who came up with the idea. “ Would it not be great to use a mobilehome to get there? Driving, eating, sleeping and working together in a big car… what’s not to like?” Because Wim and Thomas were affraid to get some serious beating from Luc, they smiled and gave him the big thumbs up! Luc arranged everything and last Wednesday they picked up the mobilehome and off they were. If you thought Wim would immediately buy a six pack and get himself comfortable… you’re quite wrong! Wim was not feeling very well. (we think by loosing his hair he picks up a cold very easy ) so they bought some basic food supplies and started driving towards Berlin.
With a stop every once and a while they moved on quickly and after an 8 hour ride they arrived in Berlin. As real truck-drivers they managed to find the way without any problems. Feeling quite hungry this Boulevart trio started looking for a place to eat and after a short walk they arrived at a place called “Alex”. Before entering Wim quickly gave the others some extra advise: “Whatever you do, don’t mention the war!”
After a lovely steak, some beers and a cuba libre they started looking for their little version of the four seasons. Thanks to Luc, who seemed to be a walking gps device, they were quickly on the road again, looking for the first parking in order to get some sleep. Quite handy you might think, sleeping in a mobile home. You can see for yourself how comfortable it was.
A good night sleep and a healthy breakfast later, they drove to the centre of Berlin. They parked somewhere in the suburbs and with a taxi they drove to Alexander Platz, still having some time to prepare the meeting. A drink and a good lunch while finetuning the presentation killed the extra time. After a nice meeting they were planning on attending the Berlin Filmfestival but there was no time for that. The mobilehome’rs needed to be in Luxemburg the day after. Thomas was very dissapointed missing Katie Holmes but he understood time was running out.
After riding all night, in serveral shifts, the trio arrived at Luxemburg where they had a quick breakfast and another meeting. After that they first visited our partners at Cronos Luxemburg, before heading back to Belgium. If you think using a mobilehome does not have a downside.. By the time Wim got over his cough, Luc managed to get one as well and at the time of writing he is still staying sick at home.
Get better soon man!
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Today, FITC has send out a press release in order to inform all attendees that there is a whole lot of mobile FITC Amsterdam content available. BoulevArt presents the FITC09 Amsterdam Mobile Guide Flash Lite application.
Toronto, Canada [January x, 2009] — Adobe Max Award08 winner Boulevart is busy putting the final touches on a mobile content package for FITC Amsterdam, a two-day event focused on the art and craft of Interactive design and technology. This is the second year for FITC Amsterdam, which takes place February 22 - 24, 2009 at the Felix Meritis European Centre for Arts and Sciences. The Boulevart team includes Mobile Consultant and Flash® Lite™ expert Thomas Joos, a graduate of the Technical University of West-Flanders.
“Thomas is on the cutting-edge of rich media for mobile and typifies the kind of sharp, young creative minds that make our events a success,” says Shawn Pucknell, Founder and Executive Producer of FITC Amsterdam.
Beginning today, FITC Amsterdam attendees can download mobile screensavers, wallpapers, and a 2009 event guide at http://www.fitc.ca/amsterdam/mobile. All content was developed by Boulevart using Adobe® Flash® Lite™, a powerful runtime engine for mobile and consumer electronics devices.
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You can download the entire press release here.
If you’re intrested, check out the FITC09 Amsterdam Mobile Guide website http://www.fitc.ca/amsterdam/mobile .
Have an iPhone? Checkout the mobile FITC09 Amsterdam site, http://m.fitc.ca, build by BoulevArts iPhone expert Andy Jacobs.
Don’t miss the FITC mobile boat this year!
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So in the (near) future i will discuss some iphone SDK topics seen through the eye of an Actionscript developer. so what I’m planning to do is take a real live example (e.g.: Array Sorting, loading XML, drawing,..) and provide you with the actionscript version and convert it to objective C / iphone SDK, if there are some specific topics .. just leave a comment and i will definitely consider blogging about it.
It will be a series of specific topics, for the general work-flow/development I recommend you to use google or youtube. My topics will be mainly focused on developing with the iphone sdk through the eyes of an Actionscript mind.
But before we start our first topic i would like to give some basic knowledge about obj-c.
Objects
So for example we have an Object which describes some person information.
#Actionscript package { public class Person extends Object { private var _name : String; private var _age : int; public function Person(name:String, age:int) { _name = name; _age = age; } public function get name() : String { return _name; } public function get age() : int { return _age; } public function set name( value : String ) : void { _name = value; } public function set age( value : int ) : void { _age = value; } } } package { import Person; import flash.display.Sprite; public class Main extends Sprite { public function Main() { var person : Person = new Person( "John", 32 ); trace( person.name, person.age ); } } }
So what we have done is create a very simple object where we can store 2 variables.
Which we trace in Main class, so the output would be “John 32″
Now lets convert that to Objective C
Person.h #import @interface Person : NSObject { NSString *name; int age; } @property (nonatomic,retain) NSString *name; @property (readwrite) int age; @end Person.m #import "Person.h" @implementation Person @synthesize name,age; @end
So for the creation of objects / classes you have 2 files, the interface and the implementation. In the interface part we describe the different module variables and functions. But also the type of the object and which delegates/controls the object should implement.
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