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Update: Namedays widget for Android

ptm — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:49:23 +0000

It was time to update my Namedays widget for Android. Now you can configure background and text colors in configure view. In configure view you can see how your widget will looks like and just save your settings when you are ready. Namedays supports now 14 countries. Please email me to get your country included.

Just tap namedays widget:
- header text to refresh data,
- name day text to show next name and
- footer to configure again.

You can find Namedays widget in Android Market's Social Category or just search "Namedays". Note: You have to remove earlier version to get new configuration view working!

Hope you like it now.

Adobe® Developer Week

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:27:41 +0000

Adobe is holding free Developer Week at May 10 - 14, 2010. Live webinars includes new Adobe CS5 technologies like: Adobe Flash Platform, Flex, Flash Builder, AIR and interactive Q&A sessions.

Full session list:

Welcome and Introduction to the Adobe® Flash® Platform
Building Multi-Screen Applications with the Adobe® Flash® Platform and Adobe® Creative Suite® 5
New Features in Adobe® Flex® 4 Framework
New Features in Adobe® Flash® Builder™ 4
Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ CS5 for Developers
Building Mobile Applications with Adobe® Flash® Professional™ CS5: Create a Game
What's New in Adobe® Flash® Builder™ for Java Developers
New Features in Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1
Creating Sexy Applications with the Adobe® Flash® Platform: Designer-Developer Workflow
A Basic CRUD Application with Zend AMF and Adobe® Flex 4
Adobe® Flash® Builder™ 4 and Adobe® ColdFusion® 9
Advanced Features In Adobe® Flex®
AS34J: ActionScript 3 for Java Developers
Adobe® Flash® Platform and Salesforce.com
Adobe® Flash® Builder™ for Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 Users
What’s New in Adobe® Flash® Builder™ for PHP Developers
Using Advanced Features with Adobe® Flex® & PHP
Adobe® ColdFusion® 9 and Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ CS5
Adobe® Flex® and BlazeDS Integration with SpringSource
Building Desktop Applications with Adobe® AIR® 2.0

More informations and registration.

Name Days Widget for Android

ptm — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:01:41 +0000

I uploaded Namedays widget to Android Market. Add this widget to your home screen and you will remember your friends name days.

This widget includes following countries: Austria, Czech, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovak, Spain, Sweden, UK and USA.

Forum Nokia Wiki: Contributor of the Month – March/2010

ptm — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:15:30 +0000

I wrote Flash Lite related articles and code examples to Forum Nokia Wiki and the Wiki Administrators selected me to Contributor of the Month. It is big honor to me - thanks! My articles covers features of APIBridge and S60 Platform Services API for Flash Lite.

"Forum Nokia honors one member every month for their outstanding contribution to our community’s Wiki. The contributor of the month is awarded a new S60 device. The honor is given to people that have contributed outstanding work for the month in number of articles and quality of the articles."

Articles and Flash Lite source codes:
* Capturing and uploading image, video or audio files to server with Flash Lite and APIBridge
* Creating Image Gallery with Flash Lite and APIBridge
* Display contact information and locations in Google Maps with Flash Lite 3.1

Nokia OVI Magazine issue one now available

ptm — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:10:38 +0000

Nokia has published out new Nokia OVI Magazine. You can read it fullscreen for example here: Nokia magazine issue one

Forum Nokia tutorials for Flash Lite

ptm — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:48:26 +0000

Forum Nokia published a series of Flash Lite tutorials with source codes: Music, LBS, RSS, Social Networking, Photostream, Event and Video.

"These tutorials provide working code for key aspects of Flash Lite integration with the latest S60 devices from Nokia. Each tutorial includes the Flash project, skinned swf files that can be run on an S60 5th Edition device and a tutorial guide document. Several of the tutorials illustrate the packaging of Flash Lite content into a WRT widget."

Display contact informations and locations in Google Maps with Flash Lite 3.1

ptm — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:55:49 +0000

I improved my eariler example which loads contact informations from users device - displays informations to scrollable list and shows contacts location in Google Maps (static image). In this new version a new Device Object is used to keep Flash Lite application in portrait mode all the time. Another great feature is to detect users device location with APIBridge. In this version of Contacts Demo both user location and contact's address location is shown at static Google Maps Image (user can adjust zoom level).

This Flash Lite example code article is published in Forum Nokia Wiki. You can found more informations and source codes there:
- Display contact informations and locations in google Maps with Flash Lite 3.1

Edit: This tutorial got Featured Article of the Week status in Forum Nokia Wiki at Week 14 - April 4th, 2010.

Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 SDK released

ptm — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:23:16 +0000

A long wait is now over and you can download/buy Flash Builder 4 and the Flex SDK. A lot of usefull informations can be found for example in the Official Flex Team blog, What's new in Flash Builder 4, What's new in Flex 4 and Differences between Flex 3 and 4.

Adobe provides a free copy of Flash Builder 4 standard for students, faculty and staff of eligible educational institutions. Download form can be found here.

Creating Image Gallery with Flash Lite and APIBridge

ptm — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:39:47 +0000

In this my second Forum Nokia Wiki code example article I explain how to create a image gallery with Flash Lite and APIBridge. Technically first all the images data are loaded from device using the Media Management Service, then user can browse images just pressing next or prev buttons on the screen. Device object is used to keep Flash Lite application in landscape mode all the time.

APIBridge and Platform Services API provides great plug-ins for Flash Lite Developers, if you are not familiar with those, you should give some time to them.

Capturing and uploading image, video or audio files to server with Flash Lite and APIBridge

ptm — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:03:18 +0000

Finally I got time to write my first article in to forum nokia wiki. APIBridge has been there for a while for Flash Lite and JavaScript developers. In my first article I will demonstrate how to capture image, video or audio in Flash Lite 3.0 based devices and how to send those files to server side. This can be done with Flash Lite and ActionScript 2.0 in a few lines of code. You can find FLA and PHP source codes at the bottom of article page in forum nokia wiki.

Here is a direct link to wiki page.

Edit: This tutorial got Featured Article of the Week status in Forum Nokia Wiki at Week 11- March 14th, 2010.