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Jesse Warden (Atlanta, USA)

Jesse Warden specializes in Flex & Flash Development. He does Flash Lite when feeling philanthropic. He has spoken in Sydney, Australia at MXDU 2003, 2005, multiple Atlanta Macromedia User Groups, Georgia Tech, Flex Seminar, Adobe MAX 2006, and other venues about various Macromedia/Adobe products and technologies. Jesse runs a blog at jessewarden.com where he contributes coding techniques, plug-ins, and sample projects to the community. He enjoys coding, hanging out with designers, watching the History Channel, raving at da clubz, D&D, and playing games (all consoles, all PC genres).

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Shuriken: The Flash Lite 2 Component Framework

Flash Lite 2 & 2.1 are the versions of the Flash Player that run on devices. Mobiles / phones today are typically dominated by J2ME and Java in general for developing applications & services. Flash Lite 2 now gives traditional Flash Developers, as well as brave traditional programmers, an ability to contribute into this growing market, captilizing on Flash's strengths over Java of being quicker to develop with less need to make multiple builds for various devices. This is made possible via Flash Lite 2's implementation of ActionScript 2 compared to the extremely limited scripting of Flash Lite 1.1. While there are many challenges for Flash' growth on mobiles / phones such as consumer adoption and operator control of networks & distribution, the problem of toolsets is disappearing. Adobe's CS3 product suite will deliver Adobe Device Central, a program in it's own right that allows testing & emulation of Flash Lite content on a variety of devices made possible by profiles. More...