Adobe Kills Mobile Flash Plug-In

Adobe Kills Mobile Flash Plug-In:

Adobe announced via a press release today that it would cease development of the Flash Player for smartphones and tablets, and would shift its focus to HTML5 support for those devices. This decision is due at least in part to Apple's refusal to allow Flash on iOS, making HTML5 the de-facto standard for developers wishing to target the highest number of platforms possible with the least amount of development effort.

Adobe says that it will now focus on enabling Flash apps on mobile devices through its Adobe AIR software, rather than developing plug-ins for specific platforms. The final version of the Flash Player plugin for mobile devices will be 11.1, which will come to Android and the BlackBerry PlayBook soon - following its release, updates will fix bugs and security problems rather than add new features.

Though Flash will likely live on in Adobe's portfolio for the forseeable future (Adobe's announcement confirms that Flash Player 12 is already in development), this change of course marks the beginning of a slow fade from relevance on the desktop as HTML5 becomes more feature-rich and browsers' implementations of it improve. Adobe itself will speed this transition along when it releases the final version of Adobe Edge, its forthcoming HTML5 development software.

Source: Adobe

Directly Install Mac OS X Lion on Your Hackintosh, No Crazy Update Process Required [Lifehacker]

Directly Install Mac OS X Lion on Your Hackintosh, No Crazy Update Process Required [Lifehacker]:

If you've read our always up-to-date guide to building a hackintosh you know that installing Mac OS X Lion requires a bit of work. You have install Snow Leopard, then go through a fairly tedious upgrade process rather than just installing from scratch. Fortunately, thanks to a new utility called UniBeast (from tonymacx86, of course), that's no longer a problem. More »

Pro Agile .NET Development with SCRUM

Pro Agile .NET Development with SCRUM:

Pro Agile .NET Development with SCRUM guides you through a real-world ASP.NET project and shows how agile methodology is put into practice.

There is plenty of literature on the theory behind agile methodologies, but no book on the market takes the concepts of agile practices and applies these in a practical manner to an end-to-end ASP.NET project, especially the estimating, requirements and management aspects of a project. Pro Agile .NET Development with SCRUM takes you through the initial stages of a project–gathering requirements and setting up an environment–through to the development and deployment stages using an agile iterative approach: namely, Scrum.

In the book, you’ll focus on delivering an enterprise-level ASP.NET project. Each chapter is in iterations or sprints, putting into practice the features of agile–user stories, test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), continuous integration, user acceptance testing, extreme programming, Scrum, design patterns and principles, inside-out development, lean developent, KanBan boards, and more. An appendix features code katas designed for the reader to get up-to-speed with some of the features of extreme programming, while also showcasing popular open-source frameworks to assist in automated testing and mocking.
What you’ll learn

Gain practical knowledge on employing the Scrum project methodology using a real-world ASP.NET project
See how extreme programming features in real world .NET projects
Learn best-practice tools for user interface and user acceptance testing, such as waitiN
Discover details on how to capture requirements and drive development using user stories
Learn how to estimate and plan agile projects and work with business stakeholders through a practical example
Uncover tips for developing using the outside-in, TDD and BDD methodologies
Gain information on tracking the progress of a project through burn down charts, iterations and retrospectives

Who this book is for Experienced .NET developers who are looking to see how the Scrum agile project methodology and extreme programming features are employed in a real-world .NET application.

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