Archive for: March, 2011

Mar 31st, 2011

Flash on Android – evidently some people like it

I was installing Flash Player on a new Android device today and noticed that the number of user ratings is quickly approaching 200,000 and those ratings are VERY good — 4.5 stars!  Screenshot below from https://market.android.com/details?id=com.adobe.flashplayer – as of 3/31/2011 4:38PM EDT. Evidently, some users like having Flash on their mobile devices.

Mar 9th, 2011

How to dramatically speed up your WordPress blog in 2 minutes

I recently moved my blog from WordPress.com to my own server (blogged here). I’ve always been a performance tuning fanatic so I immediately started benchmarking my new blog’s performance. One thing I quickly learned is that caching is a quick win on performance and caching is super easy to implement. Benchmarking For this blog post, [...]

Mar 8th, 2011

Molehill on your lunch break – take a 30 min tour

Earlier this week, I set aside some time to check out some of the many amazing demos of Molehill, Adobe’s 3D APIs for Flash Player and AIR. Whether you love Flash or not, this is something that you need to check out. Here’s a “guided path” to make your next 30 minutes something fun: Install [...]

Mar 8th, 2011

Adobe AIR Launchpad and Tour de Mobile Flex Updated

Adobe AIR Launchpad has been updated to support 8 languages – English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Russian! This and other new features are documented on Holly Schinsky’s blog Also, James Ward recently updated Tour de Mobile Flex to now target AIR 2.6. You’ll notice some nice performance improvements, especially with scrollable lists. [...]