Last night, I went to a Windows Phone 7 Developer event aptly name ‘Developer Happy Hour’ which was organized by the Flash New York Meetup.  We met at a bar where some Microsoft evangelists showed up with a few phones that we could play with.  Here are some of the impressions I got from talking to the employees and playing around with the phone.

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Anyone remember Saffron?  I was never certain if this project was ever going to come to fruition, so lately I was thinking excessively about making my own.  I started searching for inspiration in other UML tools so I could design a better user interface.  Low and behold, I stumble across UML4AS, a brand spanking new project that does just what I was planning of doing.

It integrates completely with Eclipse (and Flash Builder) and has this neat feature called CodeSync that makes sure your model and code is always persisted between each other.  In other words, everything works together in an integrated workflow to save you time.

I’ll have to dig deeper, try this out on projects and do a complete review.  In the meantime, please support this initiative by registering and posting on the forum.

Last Flex Meetup I had a presentation on how to develop a Flex application and run it on the Android mobile OS using Air for Android.  I’m now going to go step by step on how to do it.  Information on how to accomplish this feat is fairly scarce, especially example projects, and hopefully this will help pave the way.

First things first, everyone that wants to develop Air for Android needs to sign-up to the pre-release program @ Adobe.  This is a central location to get all the latest files (like the Air 2.5 SDK) and documentation on this platform.  It’s also a good way to communicate with other developers, see projects that people are doing and post any questions or feedback about your development with Air.

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That’s right, it’s here, everyone rejoice.

When I moved here from Ottawa I thought to myself that NYC would be full of Flex gurus. Sadly, that is not the case. I’ve met many developers, but very few experts in the field.

This is my way to try and change that. I’m hoping that this will become the place where Flex developers of all skill levels meet, discuss, share and learn from each other.

If that interests you, join the group and come out to our inaugural meet June 7th. Pizza will be provided.

Every year, I try to attend FITC Toronto to learn, play, network and recharge my creative battery.  There’s a lot of things that you can learn about the industry and the technology at this amazing conference.

Now, let’s do a small recap; in 2007, not long after the introduction of AIR, an ambitious project surfaced called Saffron.  This was a sexy Flash UML tool built with AIR that could be used to plan, architect and design large applications.  The creator, Samuel Agesilas, wasn’t talking much about details but he did show the Flash world a glimpse of his project.  Shortly after though, it had seemed that Samuel went completely offline.  Rumors started to surface that Samuel and his project was bought by Microsoft so that he can make a sexy, functional UML tool for Silverlight.  Nobody could confirm or deny it, Samuel wasn’t there to comment.

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