Very pleased to announce that I’ve started a new publishing relationship with Lynda.com and the first course in their library is “Getting Started with ActionScript”! How did this come about? After my former publisher, video2brain was acquired – a number of us authors were asked whether we’d like to join the Lynda.com team and were …
Building GPU-Accelerated Mobile Application Interfaces with Starling and Feathers Apache Flex is great for application UI… but it isn’t GPU-accelerated :( New versions of Adobe AIR perform quite spectacularly on mobile and really blaze when tapping into the device GPU. If your mobile application requires this sort of performance – there is a solution to …
I’ve been working a lot with PhoneGap lately for both personal projects and teaching. Because of this, I’ve taken some time to check out some of the newer books on the subject. The last book I’ve had a chance to look over is the PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot published by Packt (Packt being …
Review: PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot Read More »
Absinthe Dilution Faerie version 2.0 is now available for free via Google Play! “Absinthe Dilution Faerie” is a small application which calculates how much water one should temper a dose of absinthe with in accordance with the ABV percentage as laid out by Michael Meyers of The Wormwood Society. So what’s new in this version? …
I’ve been doing a lot of digging around in PhoneGap lately. This dovetails nicely with my Edge Animate and Edge Reflow work – but I also see it as an extension of my work with Adobe AIR and Flash Player on mobile. One of the interesting things about working in web technologies with modern browsers …
I’ll be happily speaking at Adobe MAX again this year on one of my favorite new topics: Edge Animate! Specifically: Using Edge Animate to Create a Reusable Component Set. Title: Using Edge Animate to Create a Reusable Component Set Description: This session will examine the Adobe Edge Animate Symbol structure and demonstrate a number of …
Adobe MAX is almost here… I’m Speaking on Edge Animate! Read More »
Most PhoneGap “Hello World” examples make you go through the task of configuring PhoneGap on your system and making sure your system PATH is set with Android Virtual Device support and a bunch of command line interfacing… and it is CONFUSING for newcomers! What if you just want to write your code… test your code …