People keep telling us, that they have heard some rumors, that the FDT Team doesn’t appreciate Flash Builder. We want to make sure, that everyone knows, that isn’t true. Since we have been both “creators of FDT” and until just recently an “Adobe Interactive Agency Partner” – we want to clear up any gossip. If anyone, inside or outside Adobe, has ever heard any Powerflasher attack Flash Builder, please leave a comment below.

Even though we don’t hesitate to talk about FDT’s advantages, we believe that everyone in the Flash community shares the same goal: to make Flash successful. Any negativity among the community only makes it harder to achieve this goal.

To our power users, we want to thank you for fighting for FDT, but please stay objective and positive. We want to start:

For our agency division, Flash Builder is the tool of choice when we have a MXML development project with an advanced graphic workflow. It has specific features, such as great MXML integration, Design View, CSS Design mode and Creative Suite Integration. All this makes our job easier. We also love it for its powerful data visualization components and round trip workflows between Flash Builder, Flash Professional and Flash Catalyst. Kudos to Adobe. Flash Builder is a great tool for enterprise business applications.

Since FDT focuses strong on a fast coding workflow with AS3, MXML and haXe (for HTML5/JS/WebGL, PHP…) we would never create such features, so thank you Adobe for covering that. We’re aiming to be THE tool for interactive coders and game developers. In working toward this goal we’re proud of the fact that Adobe itself has purchased over 50 FDT licences. Thanks a lot.

It’s unfortunate that both tools do not work better together within Eclipse. Some people have found tricky ways (http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=D830B) – but that can’t be the final solution and we can’t manage that without Adobe’s support. Let us renew the communication about working together that was started in 2007.

We love choices as you do: http://www.adobe.com/choice/flash.html

Attending the FITC festival in San Francisco, the Powerflasher team was interviewed by Adobe and featured in their EDGE website newsletter:

Bruno Fonzi: The impressive new thing is just seeing devices, having Flash working on devices.

Martin Libich:  Well, I think in the Flash world, in general, what we are seeing and this is crucial for what we do, is the possibility of taking Flash out of the browser. Using the flexibility of Flash to do what has been done on the web anywhere you want, in the store front, at the counter when you are ordering your latte.

The Conference

In this article, HTLM5 vs. Flash at a Flash Conference, Yosun Chang captured the openness and true interest in digital art design and technology that explores and goes beyond Flash. This is valid for FITC, FlashOnTheBeach (FOTB), FlashAndTheCity (FATC), FlashBelt and many other Community driven conferences around the world! So many hard to mention all, sorry !

Yosun has even missed however the presentation about haxe.org another alternative language to ActionScript or Flex ”Everything you wanted to know about haXe, but were afraid to ask”  with Nicolas Cannasse presented at the super cool Influxis Voodoo Lounge
We have also done some interviewed ourselves to some of the haXe fans attending FITC, including the number one fan Nicolas Cannasse 😉

We also had a blast on the rooftop CODAME event, it could not have better a place for Powerflasher to celebrate our first year in USA as a Digital Interactive Development company. Looking forward to new upcoming exciting projects !

A special thanks to our supporters, Gaia Online, Organic, Mypressi and Influxis for the drinks!

I would like to thank @Starpause for helping us to organize the art tech side of the event with the help of @keisukes @andremichelle @radley @calebhaye @jamiew @EvanMorris transmote.com for making CODAME an awesome multimedia experience ! Buck & Sumit as great hosts of the now legendary San Francisco rooftop residence!

And big thanks to the fog for passing by and make the CODAME event a full San Francisco experience!

Check it out yourself in this Photo Gallery taken by @photonburst and video taken by @keisukes

FITC was definitely fun and informative, we were glad to see you in our new home, San Francisco, and hope to you here again next year !

@BrunoFonzi

Hi Folks,

we are back from Adobe MAX, with some really cool insights and also had some great chats at our little booth.

Milano was a great place for MAX, and also the program of and around it was pretty neat. Michaels Session about FDT on FlexCamp one day before MAX also went very well, and he had great feedback. If you have ever the chance to see one of his speed coding sessions, don´t miss it!!

Of course, we raffled of one FDT Enterprise license again. The lucky winner is Christoph Dubach from Zurich, Switzerland. Jooske from Adobe was so kind to help us in our little raffle. We congratulate and whish pure coding comfort!

Hope to see some of you at FITC Amsterdam soon!!

cheers,

Frank