Max Awards : Let’s vote for the Pepsi Max-it case !
Sep/090
As mentioned a few weeks ago, the “Pepsi Max-it” case from Proximity BBDO , is a finalist for a Max Award in the “Advertising and Branding” category.
Now it’s time to vote ! Give them your vote and let’s make sure at least 1 Max Award will come back to the Benelux 
Voting can be done here : http://max.adobe.com/awards/finalists/
New cookbook application on Adobe devnet
Sep/090
“The Adobe Developer Connection announced today that the brand new Adobe Cookbooks application is now live! This uber Adobe Cookbook application replaces the individual, product-specific cookbook applications that were previously in place for Flex, AIR and Mobile. The new application will still support those technologies, in addition to a dozen or so additional technologies, all within a single application. For those new to the cookbook applications, they are a searchable repository for community-generated code samples.”
Looks like a great addition to what “Tour de Flex” is allready providing !
New on labs : Flash spell checker.
Sep/090
Want to integrate spell checking into your rich internet or AIR application ? Good news … Squiggly is a new actionscript library that provides you with this functionality. Check it out on labs.adobe.com.
“Mercedes virtuele opendeur” by Proximity BBDO
Sep/091
Great project integrating flash and video in an interactive way. This application lets user visits the virtual showroom and even experience the different models using augmented reality.
Also love the way they added some fun into this experience … For example … Make Veronique dizzy by going to check out the models, and make the carousel spin fast
Check it our for yourself at http://www.virtueleopendeur.be/
BandGeek by IDA MediaFoundry
Sep/090
BandGeek is an internal project from iDA MediaFoundry with the purpose
to explore the Flash Catalyst – Flex 4 workflow.
The design was made in Photoshop, this design was then pushed in
Catalyst where most of the components were made and the
project was then imported in Flash Builder. The big advantage here is
that the programmer could already start on writing the api
and just “plug it in” when the catalyst code was ready.
BandGeek is an Adobe Air application which gives you (almost any)
information there is to find on the web about your favorite bands or
artists with on simple click.
The user fills in the band or artist (and if desired also a song
title) and BandGeek will give you the lyrics, band info, discography,
images, video clips, similar artists and a tour schedule.
Also, you can get a list of guitar tabs and chords which can be played
with an internal player. So guitar players will love this application
too.
If you like music, you have to try this application. You can find more
information and the download at http://www.ida-mediafoundry.be/bandgeek
More Adobe IBC news : Flash Access 2.0 (DRM for video delivery)
Sep/090
It’s the new version of “Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server”, and got rebranded with this version to Flash Access.
Most exiting part of this news is the fact that with the next version of the Flash player, we will now provide DRM for Flash player in the browser. Up until now DRM was only possible when watching video in an AIR client. You can find the press-release here, and more information can be found on FlashComGuru.
If you don’t need full DRM functionality for online video delivery, Flash Media server also provide some basic secure delivery options … You can get more information in the “video content protection measures using Flash Media Server” whitepaper.
Getting ready for IBC Amsterdam with Adobe Story and CinemaDNG
Sep/090
We are one day away from IBC in Amsterdam. I will be there on friday, monday and tuesday. Let me know if you are around, we can always meet up and get you an Adobe update ! You can find Adobe at H7H.23.
IBC didn’t even start and you can find allready on labs.adobe.com 2 new exiting technologies.
CinemaDNG wants to provide digital cinema workflows a similar functionality as what DNG provided for photography.
Adobe Story is a collaborative tool that will let creative professionals, producers, and writers work on scripts and screenplays. You can download on labs.adobe.com a free preview. Adobe Story itself is an Adobe AIR application.
You can get more information / demo’s of both on the Adobe booth at IBC. We’ll see you there ?
“Pepsi Max it” case from Proximity BBDO one of finalists for Max 2009 Award
Sep/091
Congrats to the BBDO Proximity team ! The “Pepsi Max it” case is one of the 3 finalists for the Max Award 2009, category Advertisement. They build a great experience integrating Flash with a hardware component, a claw machine ! The fact they also integrated facebook is a nice extra !
Next step is that the world can vote to select the winner, this will be possible from September 21th on the Adobe Max site.
If you are going to Max, make sure you’ll be there to support them. If you still didn’t book your ticket for Max … Flying to LA is still pretty cheap … (400 euro) and the weak dollar makes your stay pretty cheap in LA.
How to become an Adobe Certified Expert
Sep/090
As this is a question that comes quite often … How to become an ACE (Adobe Certified Expert)
1. Define the type of ACE you want to get …
Here you can find a list of all the available certifications :
http://partners.adobe.com/public/ace/main.html
2. Locate a exam center in your neighbourhood and book an exam
Adobe is working with Pearson Vue, you can find an exam center using this page : http://www.vue.com/adobe/locate/
3. Prepare and take the exam
There are depending on the product a number of books / white papers that will help you to prepare for the exam. Check Google for these.
For Flex for example you can get this white paper : http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex_certification.html
More info on http://www.adobe.com/support/certification/ace.html
Get better Flex code with FlexPMD
Sep/090
Check out this new open source project, FlexPMD. It is meant to automatically detect code anti-patterns, code smells, common bad practices in a Flash/Flex based source code. Get more info here.
Adobe Belgium events
- Omniture Summit 2010 May 20, 2010
- Belgian Broadcast Days May 5, 2010
- Video SIG Event | Adobe User Group Belgium March 25, 2010
- Efficient Citizen-Centric Government Conference March 25, 2010
- Save time by automating your workflow with Adobe and Enfocus March 18, 2010