Adobe Unveils ‘Wallaby’ Flash-to-HTML5 Converter Even though its Flash technology is used as a punching bag by web standards fans, Adobe has been working hard to embrace HTML5. The company released its own HTML5 video player, and Adobe Illustrator and Dreamweaver CS5 contain a number of new HTML5 export tools. Now Adobe is turning its HTML5 attentions to Flash with the release of Wallaby, a new Flash-to-HTML5 converter. Wallaby is a free Adobe AIR application that allows designers and developers to convert Adobe Flash files (FLAs) into standards-based HTML5, CSS 3 and Javascript files. Wallaby isn’t quite ready for prime time yet, but you can grab the pre-release version from Adobe Labs if you’d like to experiment. Adobe first showed off Wallaby at the company’s MAX conference last year and the target use was pretty clear: Apple’s iOS devices. Because iOS is the primary use case for Wallaby, the generated code relies on some WebKit-only CSS features, which means that Wallaby’s results won’t work in every web browser. See Also:
Powerful, highly-interactive and unique online mind mapping tool | Seavus DropMind™ The Future of Corporate IT is Private Cloud Computing By Steve Eveleigh, Product Marketing manager, Star Cloud computing has become a short hand for the complex process of virtualisation and application delivery. On the whole, most users of cloud computing use Public Cloud services such as Google Apps, Microsoft BPOS or SalesForce.com, all names that have become synonymous with cloud. However, large enterprises are increasingly moving toward Private Cloud. ...such an infrastructure commonly utilise both Public Cloud and Private Cloud services resulting in Hybrid Cloud. The main challenges that organisation face when adopting public cloud services are around security and control of their data. Those businesses deploying Private Cloud infrastructures can optimise the resources involved in the provisioning, delivery, monitoring and control of their business critical tools and applications. Businesses that adopt Private Cloud can reap all the benefits of Public Cloud such as Bookmark
Quantifying the cost of not changing | Improvement and Innovatio The need for improvement and change in most organisations is apparent, and targets can be set. But what are the costs of not changing? This article investigates… As business leaders a large proportion of time these days is spent in assessing the need for change, costs associated with these changes and then deciding do we go or “no-go”. Because the cost of change is fairly easily determined by adding the foreseeable components to come up with a total, here we will discuss the costs of remaining in the current status quo, and as we will find this cost can be difficult to quantify in a spreadsheet and trade off diagrams. The motivation for change arises when we observe our current results as no longer being sufficient to meet our needs. Take the time now to consider the change that your organisation is in the process of undertaking or considering. Now consider all of the activities that are being undertaken. Why? or worse still “quick, work harder.” The issue is one of haste, (not speed).