The debug version of the Flash Player 10.1 beta is available now, which is a relief.
As for the upcoming CS5 release, Lee Brimelow’s put up another preview video. In addition to the iPhone compiler previously uncovered, this is our first peek at some of the other features we’re looking forward to, such as the new text engine, improved font embedding, the XLF format, improved code panel with custom class completion and various other improvements and tweaks. Looks pretty good, although I get the feeling that CS5 is a far smaller update than CS3 and 4; this feels more like CS4.5 than a fullbred new version. As for CS4, it was just upgraded to 10.0.2, and it seems far more stable and responsive now. Read More
A quick tip if you’re using Flex Builder and are missing a quick way to format your code. Flex Formatter is a free open source plugin that adds some very useful buttons to your IDE. These will make ASDoc, format, and code rearrangement just one click away.
Microsoft has really put an effort into the newest version of Silverlight (v4), making it into a fully usable platform for RIA development. I suspect the release of Windows7 has freed up some more resources for the Silverlight team. Microsoft has addressed much of the critique of the previous versions of Silverlight. A lot of new controls, support for data-binding, MP4-video and a lot of development-tools makes Silverlight 4 a platform worth checking out for your next RIA-project. I have scratced a bit on the surface of this upcoming release, and here are some of the reasons why I am looking forward to start with Silverlight 4.
The Flash Player has supported the wmode parameter since version 3. The default value for 
Last week Youtube announced they are adding support for viewing 1080p HD videos. (tips: add &fmt=37 to end of the links)
The iPad experience
When Steve Jobs presented the newest Apple gadget, the iPad, the discussions started all over the world. Some call it a ”giant iPhone”, except that you can’t use it as a phone, so maybe a giant iPod Touch is more accurate. The similarities are many. The iPad can run most of the applications on Apples App Store, and to develop iPad applications you use the iPhone SDK, although a updated version with better support for the new giant. Will the iPad be the next big thing and experience the same success as the iPhone? There are a bunch of discussions out there. The price, the size, the possibilities and of course the limitations. One of the limitations I have read most about, and as a Flash developer are very interested in, is the lack of support for the Adobe Flash Player.
Since the release of the iPhone Adobe have tried to get Apple to release a Flash player version for the iPhone, but without any luck. The situation has not changed when it comes to the iPad. The big difference here is that one of the major things to use iPad to is surfing the web. We have been used to limitations when surfing the web on mobile devices. But I must admit that I don’t expect any of these limitations when it comes to a “mini-computer” like the iPad.
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