It’s been a while since I blogged anything (November last year to be precise), so it’s long overdue. Time to make amends and start writing more about my Flash/Flex adventures and other general industry stuff.

It’s been a rollercoaster year in so many ways, and in the Flash development community things have been so frenzied sometimes it’s been hard to keep up with events as they emerged. We’ve had the CS5/Apple debacle, Flash 10.1 hitting desktop and mobile, and AIR on Android, plus a lot of FUD surrounding the future of Flash with HTML5 coming onstream.

I’m sure I’m not the only Flash Platform developer out there to have been incensed by Apple’s move to block the Flash CS5 iPhone exporter; YAY! had several enquiries about possible client projects that were effectively canned because of Apple’s amendment to its developer terms and conditions, and Steve Jobs’ subsequent open letter that was so full of inaccurracies it was the last straw for many. But enough’s been written now about that now, the best way forward is to continue to demonstrate that Flash is a strong and mature platform for application development.

As for YAY! and me, I’ve just completed my first commercial Flex 4 project using Flash Builder 4, and loved it. I’ve also been trying out some other MVC frameworks other than my native Cairngorm, and I’m really liking RobotLegs; it’s lightweight, easy to get started with and I’m finding it less difficult to learn than PureMVC. I’ve also been working in OSMF, which is turning out to be a great framework for developing media delivery components, and I’m working on a test project using Flex 4.5 Hero for an Android side-project I want to do. I’m also very excited to be heading back to work alongside the University of Warwick’s Web Development Team on mobile applications, including iPhone (pragmatism is a wonderful thing). Expect more updates from now on about my adventures with the Flash Platform, but also with these new areas of interest. I might even start posting some HTML5 demos if time allows.