The Forum Nokia Developer Conference is back this year and is scheduled to take place on 7th December 2009 at the Taj Residency, Bangalore. The conference is intended for anyone in mobile development – game developers, publishers, operators, aggregators, music and content houses etc, with sessions covering varied Forum Nokia technologies and platforms.
See you there…
Register here – http://www.nokiadevcon.in/fndc09/register.php?count=1
It is good news that you can now develop stand alone applications in Adobe Flash for the Apple iPhone. Adobe Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3.
These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.
To start off with a nice article on how to get started, visit the article on Developer Connection.
“Adobe now makes it possible to create applications for the Apple iPhone using the Adobe Flash Platform. You heard right: We’re really excited to bring this new capability to Flash designers and developers—the ability to target the iPhone with ActionScript 3 projects.”
More information on the technology – Adobe iPhone Development
I am happy to announce that iBattery Screensaver/Wallpaper has reached 5000 downloads today. Thanks for all of you who encouraged with your emails and downloads. Please look forward for more content. Thanks again!
Crazy Tower 1.0 is now showcased on GamesPlaza.mobi under the Puzzles/Brain section.
You may log on to the site and start playing right away with out needing a download 
Here is the link (Browse from your mobile)
I was working on a Flex application in Flex 3 where I wanted to auto sort a column of a DataGrid component, which was populated dynamically (using PHP). I researched a lot and found a solution on the net.
DataGridColumn, when sorted manually, dispatches an event of type DataGridEvent. The simplest way that I found was to dispatch this even automatically through Action Script.
I am pleased to announce the release of my new free Flash Lite game – Crazy Tower 1.0
Crazy Tower is a game based on the famous “Tower of Hanoi” myth. This game involves 3 rods, one through which wooden circular pegs (discs) rest in ascending order. The objective of the game is to move the entire stack of pegs, arranged in order of size from first rod, to the last rod. At any point of time, a bigger peg cannot be placed on a smaller one. Enjoy the thrilling legend right on your mobile phone trying to take the minimum number of steps to complete each level and attain victory.
The game starts with 3 pegs in the 1st level and ends with 8 pegs in the 6th level. Taking one wrong move could prove fatal needing 100s of moves to get back on track.
Here are some screen shots of the same: -
Adobe’s new Flash Platform Service for distributing Flash content to Social Networks, Mobiles and Desktop concentrates on monetization of your applications through means of hosting ads. You may now write applications for mobiles or social networks and push updates of you application on the social media once the application has been installed. The service also provides tracking/analysis to measure the benefit and success of the application.
“The Distribution service available through Adobe Flash Platform Services offers free and paid methods for distributing applications to social networks, mobile devices, and desktops. It also enables developers and businesses to track the distribution of and user engagement with their applications. Finally, it enables monetization of applications through ad hosting.”
It’s been about a month since I have been using the Wacom Intuos 4 tablet. It really is worth spending for. I tried using this thing for 3 different aspects. 1 – Photoshop, 2 – Flash and 3 – Everything on Mac OS X (replacing mouse).
Photoshop was a whole new sophisticated experience with Intuos 4. Now, when it comes to web designing, I still prefer mouse over this, but when it comes to brush strokes, effects, tilt, pressure, digital painting, etc., way to go Wacom! Too good. Here is a start off of my basic digital painting. I have been experimenting more on this and hopefully will post more on the Art section of this site.
Replacing mouse completely with Intuos 4 is OK for a normal use. While using the graphic pen, sometimes when you feel your hand needs rest, you cant leave the cursor where it is. Also especially in gaming, mouse seems more precise. Otherwise, for a normal Mac work, I still love using this pen. Flash also was not that satisfactory with the pen for my kind of work where it is game development or precise design for mobiles. People with animation in mind, something like a cartoon storyboard oriented animation, can use Intuos 4 to double their ease compared to mouse.
The new shortcut menu option and ability to set custom actions for buttons according to the application we use is something very useful. Still need to get my hands more on this thing. But overall, no regrets to have spent good amount on this.
Dale Rankine‘s new video tutorial is posted.
This series:
Automated Test Scripts in Device Central CS4 allow developers to run programtic interaction tests for their content across single or multiple device profiles. In this episode we take a look at creating, recording and playing back Test Scripts, plus some of the available API’s you have at your disposal.
One more video tutorial by Dale.
This series:
When building Flash mobile applications that run on standard key-pad driven mobile devices, interacting with that key-pad is a fundemental part of your architecture. In this episode we’ll look at capturing these interactions and some of the tricks that you may encounter.
November 4th, 2009 
