Thursday, May 8, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008  0 Comments   Links to this post   
[via the gaping chasm that is my stockpile of mostly un-read emails]:

O'Reilly is hosting another fun, free Ignite Boston event!

Ignite Boston is happening on Thursday, May 29, from 6 to 10pm at Tommy Doyle's in Harvard Square, Cambridge (www.tommydoyles.com). We're heading back to the venue of our first Ignite, but we're using two floors so we can accommodate more folks.

The evening's keynote speakers are:
  • Jonathan Zdziarski, iPhone maven and author of "iPhone Open Application Development" (This has me more excited than anything else right now)
  • John Viega, security guru and author of many O'Reilly titles, including the upcoming "Beautiful Security"
We're now accepting proposals for lightning talks, so if you want to speak for five minutes about a cool, new, or exciting topic, submit your idea here:

http://ignitenight.thirdeye.railsplayground.net/events/form/ignite_boston_3

Presentation Guidelines:
  • Be no longer than 5 minutes.
  • Be on an innovative topic (no sales pitches or launches, please!).
  • Be viewable on a PC with standard AV equipment.
Want to come to the event? RSVP at IgniteBoston at oreilly dot com for the chance to win $300 worth of O'Reilly books of your choosing. You must be present to win.

Stay in the loop by visiting our blog for updates, speaker lists, and other info:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ignite/blog/

See you there!

And while you're waiting for Ignite...our friends at BarCampBoston are running another BarCamp on May 17th and 18th. BarCamp is a free unConference where you can participate in discussions, demo your projects, or join into another cooperative event.

Find out more and register at http://www.barcampboston.org/

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Friday, July 6, 2007
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Okay, so here are rumors galore about the Flash Player coming to an iPhone sometime in the future. There are three things that I can see wrong with the player on the iPhone (and with some genius they could all be sorted).

  1. Battery life. Someone needs to make a player that isn't Flashlite, but consumes a lot less CPU to do its rendering - taking advantage of the hardware more. I am sure the iPhone does this on its own already with all the speedy transitions. Give that to the Flash Player, and that would be a big help.
  2. Edge sucks, so we'd have to worry a little about the size of most Flash content, how it gets cached and eats memory, and how it would perform on a slow connection (something most of us have simply forgotten about). A caching mechanism or something could possibly help.
  3. The iPhone gesturing might get confused with Flash content underneath it that also sucks up mouse events? Probably not, but maybe. Depending on how the Flash was developed, it could make things weird, especially for full-screen Flash apps and websites. This is probably the easiest thing to fix.

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