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  • New found love for the Foundation Framework

    Foundation is a beautiful framework for authoring HTML JS websites. I believe that this framework stikes a perfect balance between being just right ‘heavy’ while accomplishing what a designer-developer would want it to. What more, it also comes with a customization package to help you keep it simple. But that said, it is the framework that helps me get over all the repetitive’s, hard to get aligned kind of coding. I am a fan of the grid system it offers.

    Now, Foundation isn’t a school kids tazo. It is a mature framework, and there are other of the same kind. I reached foundation after a long ride across the internet searching for the lightest CSS framework. All I wanted was a base to write my HTML code on. Something that would help me confine my effort to a single good browser, and having to worry less about browser incompatibilities. I came across Skeleton. Read a little about it on its website. And it seemed to be the very thing I was looking for. I loved the minimalist, simple, light-weight css framework that Skeleton is. Adapted well on mobile, but fell short on one aspect – Fluidity. So, there started the search again!

    Yeti

    I’m also amazed at the activity it attracts on Github. The project has 15K+ stargazers, 3K+ forks, and sees issues being fixed every other day. This fact alone convinces me to a large extent on adopting this framework. No one wants to be left in the lurch, right?

    Here are a handful of things that makes me go back to Foundation for my next web app.

    1. Fluid CSS Framework
    2. Mobile First Approach
    3. Bundled Components
    4. LESS and SASS/SCSS support

    I think Foundation has all the goodness of, clean, easy to use, fluid CSS framework. Templates for the newbies. Mobile first approach, and yeah, also has a mascot!
    Sure it isn’t light, but if you know what exactly you want, you have an option to ignore some of the bundled goodness during download.
    All components come bundled along with SASS/SCSS support.

    Explore Foundation…
    http://foundation.zurb.com/

  • Speech Recognition ANE – Source

    As a follow on for the Speech Recognition ANE I put up for download a while back, here is the a post to give out the source files.

    The source can be downloaded from my BitBucket repository.

    If you are looking for the compiled ANE instead, click here

    The contents of the zip archive are,

    • Android Native Project
    • Actionscript Library Project
    • Files required for compilation

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  • New ActionScript Native Extension – Speech Recognition

    Here is a Speech Native Extension that takes advantage of the Android’s speech recognition APIs.

    Here is what the ANE does,

    • Provide an API to check if the feature is supported.
    • Provide an API to launch the default speech recognition UI and capture voice input.
    • Trigger events based on the success or failure of the above call.
    • In case of success, the appropriate event has information of the best match !
    • In case of failure, the appropriate event is fired.

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  • Moving on from Evangelism…

    Flash and Me

    Its been just over a year since I had the privilege of joining the India Evangelism Team at Adobe. Had an opportunity to speak at reputed conferences, visit institutions, work with a super cool team on some amazing pieces of work and meet most of you!

    I will now be moving on to the Flash Runtime team within Adobe. What this means is, I will not appear on stage at the frequency I was, but work more on the background with the teams that enable you build all those awesome interactive experiences! I also plan to keep my blog and twitter stream flowing, so don’t drop your bookmarks yet 🙂

    Looking for exciting opportunities ahead!

  • Native Extensions – Flash Builder Webinar

    I did a webinar last Wednesday on using Native Extensions with Flash Builder. The agenda covered an introduction to Native Extensions – Rather Actionscript Native Extensions, the workflow involved in using native extensions, followed by a live demo.

    For those of you who haven’t had the chance to attend,

    Here is the link to the Recording,
    View Recording

    Here are the Slides,
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  • P2P Apps for Mobile Devices

    This post is a follow up to my session at Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2011, Bangalore on the 28th of July. I spoke on Peer to Peer for Mobile Devices with the Flash Platform. Peer to Peer has been around for a long time now, but its not often you see apps making use of this immensely capable technology. My talk covered the possibilities that could come to life with P2P on Mobile, along with some demo’s. Here is the Slide Deck,

    As part of my demo at AFPS, I wrote the RealTime Locator, a simple app that shares its location with every peer in a group over the RTMFP protocol. (more…)

  • Speaking at, Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2011

    The much awaited Flash / Flex / Actionscript developer summit, the Adobe Flash Platform Summit is back again on 27th – 29th July at Bangalore, India with all new and exciting content around Devices, Experiences & Innovation. Watch out for exciting sessions around Flex for Mobile and Enterprise. Also with us this time are a host of Product Managers apart from Duane Nickull and Renaun Erickson, Evangelists from across the world. Ben Forta, too, is going to be there.

    I will be speaking on the 28th July. Here is an abstract of my session,
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  • New Domain acquired – iNoel.in

    I just acquired a new domain, iNoel.in. Found my existing domain, ImmanuelNoel.com, to be too long to be key’d in to the address bar 🙂

    I plan to use iNoel.in as,

    • An alternate URL for my website / blog. The new (other) URL for my blog is, blog.iNoel.in
    • A URL shortening service for my own needs.

    Here are a few short URLs,
    Twitter : inoel.in/twitter
    Facebook : inoel.in/fb
    LinkedIn : inoel.in/linkedin
    Google Plus : inoel.in/gPlus

    My existing domain, immanuelnoel.com is still going to be the primary domain. Your old bookmarks should not be affected.

  • Blackberry Playbook App Clinic’s are here !

    The Blackberry Playbook App Clinic’s are here ! Your one stop destination to get those apps onto the Blackberry Playbook. The App Clinic’s, organized by various Flex user groups, are happening across major Indian cities over this week and the next.

    What is it ?
    If you have been longing to get your app onto the Blackberry Playbook, have a cool app idea, if you are a enthusiastic Flex / Actionscript developer, or never had an opportunity to try out the new Flex 4.5 SDK or the new Flash Builder 4.5.1, Blackberry Playbook App Clinic’s are for you !
    The clinic kick-starts with a presentation on building Flex/Air Apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook. Experts from Adobe India and RIM will be present for the rest of the event at the venue to drive out your doubts and help you build apps seamlessly.

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  • Speaking at, Great Indian Developer Summit 2011

    I will be speaking at the Great Indian Developer Summit 2011, at J N Tata Auditorium, IISC, Bangalore on the 21st and 22nd April 2011.

    Here are the abstracts for my sessions,

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