Yes, you read it right in the title. Adobe Flash Catalyst is now in public beta available on Adobe Labs. You can download this new software today and start building your RIAs right from the start, based on Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator assets. Ryan Stewart has a lot of information (and screencasts) on Flash [...]

Last week, I gave a presentation on Flash Catalyst at the SDN Event from Software Development Network (SDN). Flash Catalyst is an upcoming tool from Adobe that eases the designer-developer integration. Flash Catalyst allows you to create Rich Internet Applications based on the Adobe Flash Platform. Flash Catalyst can consume Photoshop PSD files or [...]

The past week has been very busy. Tuesday morning, September 23rd started with a press briefing for the Dutch press in the “Meervaart” in Amsterdam. On that day Adobe launch it’s next version of the Creative Suite, CS4. Ton Frederiks, Paul van Keeken and I delivered a 2.5 hour session CS4, the vision and the [...]

I am working on a small Rails / Flex project and ran into some issues; I decided to try out the Aptana debugger. I follow all the instructions and the console showed

Waiting for connection on ‘localhost:49603′
Fast Debugger (ruby-debug-ide 0.2.0) listens on localhost:49603

After about 15 seconds I got the error-message:
An internal error occured during: “Starting Server”.
In [...]

I’ve been working with Eclipse for a couple of years. Before using eclipse, I used a “personal” copy of IntelliJ IDEA. I tried to migrate 3 times from IntelliJ to Eclipse (around the 3.0 Milestones period), but every time it ended in a fight with the project structure in eclipse and the automatic build stuff. [...]