Twenty-Eleven was a stand out year for me. In my professional life, I had three books published in addition to co-authoring a DVD workshop along with two smaller video courses. Considering I’ve never had my writing or video recordings published before this- it’s a pretty big deal for me. Working with Packt, O’Reilly, Adobe Press/Peachpit, …
I just finished a small book to be published by Packt in January. Not revealing the title or subject matter yet until everything is ready, but I think a lot of people will find it very interesting! The really cool thing about this and the larger print book that will follow is that my editor …
ActionScript is an object-oriented programming language that has a wide reach on the web, the desktop, mobile devices, and beyond. If you want to be able to hit many targets with one code base, ActionScript is a great way to do so; it also lets you build a variety of application types, from 2D and …
On the 6th of December, I participated in the “Future of Flash” panel along with Kevin Hoyt, Jun Heider, and Ryan Bell with John Wilker moderating. The event was put on by the Rocky Mountain Adobe User Group (RMAUG) and 360|Flex and was hosted by Uncubed in Denver, Colorado. Unfortunately, the recording was problematic and …
O’Reilly has published a set of books that I was able to get together over the past few months, leading up to the new Flash Platform runtime releases in October: “What’s New in Flash Player 11” and “What’s New in Adobe AIR 3“. These books are companion pieces as there is obvious overlap between what …
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Last week, Google announced a few things. One being that Google Music was now available without and invite. The second being Google Music for Artists, which is what I’ll be writing about in this post. I’ve been wondering for some time whether Google would be opening some way for artists and labels to distribute music …
Before this evening, this post was going to read as another grueling defense of Flash technologies… Here’s an except from my earlier draft: I have always used Flash when appropriate, to do things which were either impossible with HTML or at least would be a major pain. I’ve developed many applications which use Flash technology …
“Adobe annouced today that Flex is going open source!” [this is a post from 2007 in light of Adobe’s announcement on 11/11/11] Heh… really… Contribute to SPOON and see what happens!
So, basically – here is what is happening: Adobe is halting development on the mobile web browser version of Flash Player for Android. This effectively places Android on the same level as iOS so far as Flash Player goes for the future. They are doing this as part of a massive reorg to shift resources …
It’s been an uphill battle since “Thoughts on Flash” and this year things were finally leveling off. I was getting buy-in from important pockets of my organization and now Adobe’s message has utterly annihilated all the work I’ve done putting mobile Flash in a positive light. I’m not wasting any more time convincing people if …
I have two sessions at the end of this week to kick off the Hallowe’en festivities! The first is a poster session for the 2011 University of Denver Provost Conference on the 28th where I’ll be available to discuss the mobile landscape in education during the two poster session blocks that are planned. The second …
I strongly suggest that if you are interested in digital artistry (including; installations, app development, browser-based design, mobile, animation, game design, print, et cetera) you head over and check out the Adobe Design Achievement Awards finalists for 2011. You can read about each finalist, view team members, see samples of the work, and even comment …