Flash developer. Blasphemy in the arab world.

“im a flash developer”.

“a what?”

“…”

I cant remember how many times this happened to me. And im sure this happened to alot of people here in Jordan. We have a very slow movement towards online media and a vague understanding of whats possible such as microsites, online immersive experiences, or online virals.

So its almost rare to find a Flash developer. Like someone who works everyday on Flash and understands Actionscript and OOP concepts.

We are trying to create a sense of belonging for the Flash developers in Jordan. So if you know anyone interested here is the group

http://groups.adobe.com/groups/f665ecd589/summary

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Won silver award at the Jordan Web Awards

Congrats for us and the users of JOCR8 our first product. We won the silver awards ( 2nd place ) in the Online Communities category at the Jordan Web Awards. We congratulate our runner up “ishki.com” for earning the Golden Award.

It was a nice night. Although we didn’t fully grasp the judging system neither found out who the jury was.

But we were excited to be approached by some of JOCR8’s users. Which made us very happy. Thanks to all the members of the JOCR8 community, you lead the way for us.

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Jordan Web awards on the Jan 24th

We submitted our project JOCR8 to the Jordan Web Awards competition which will be held on the 24th of Jan 2009. Wish us good luck. And We hope that JOCR8 gets some media attention as well. Because it is an amazing community that were proud of being part in.

We will announce if we won or not on the 24th :)

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Adobe Announces AIR 1.5

Its here AIR 1.5 .This version of Adobe Air will use the Flash 10 Player which means we can start using native 3D, Pixel Bender scripts and all the new features in Flash Player 10.

Were thinking of trying it on a new AIR app. Any suggestions?

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JOCR8 in the press

Our prodct JOCR8 has been featured in the Jordanian publication JO Magazine. We are very happy that the media has noticed the amazing talents who are meetinga and sharing their work using our product. Thanx to all the users who helped us shape JOCR8 into another Jordanina breakthrough. And a special thanx to the editor of JOCR8 Zeina Azouqa.

Here is the clipping from the magazine.

Jocr8 in JO Mazgazine

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Adobe announces CS4 Collection of products

We are literaly drooling over the new CS4 package from Adobe. This release will help RIA developers to work in a more streamlined proccess with designers. And offcourse use the latest capabilities of the Flash Player 10.

Check it out directly through the announcement video on adobe tv.

Enjoy!

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JOCR8 gets 88 on the YSlow scale! pretty impressive

Were delighted to have a very fast community site. According to the YSlow plugin for Firebug. We took an A for every factor in the test except for an F for CDN; which is out of reach .. for now :). And a n/a for External CSS/JS which is a bug that occurs in YSlow sometimes.

Which means that JOCR8 almost got an A.

Check out it out for yourselves http://www.jocr8.com

Please tell us if you have a site which got more than 88 in Jordan so we can compare.

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