This publication is a set of DVDs (7 hours, 20 minutes) along with a 48 page book covering mobile application development using Flash Builder 4.5 and Flash Professional CS5.5 targeting both Apple iOS and Google Android. I had the opportunity to co-author this title along with the excellent Peter Elst earlier this year. Happy that …
The University of Denver held a TEDx event today. We fed an RTMP signal through a VBrick unit to an internal Flash Media Server for authentication to be distributed over CDN and exposed to viewers through the Open Source Media Framework Strobe Media Playback. I was curious how the feed would look over a variety of devices. …
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Demo of mobile Flex 4.5 using Flash Builder 4.5.
Both of my video tutorials on customizing STrobe Media Playback are now available over at ActiveTuts+. If you are interested in doing simple skinning of SMP or want to recompile a customized version; I’ve got you covered! UPDATE: Also be sure to check out Tom Green‘s overview over at WebdesignTuts+! Getting Started with Strobe Media …
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This session was given to the Adobe Education Community on December 2nd, 2010 Join Joseph Labrecque [Adobe Education Leader, Higher Ed] from the University of Denver as he provides a session demonstrating the uniquely portable nature of the Adobe CS5 toolchain originating in Illustrator and branching out to Photoshop, InDesign, and finally Flash Catalyst. See …
The GoogleTV device that was given to all (most?) Adobe MAX 2010 attendees just showed up at my doorstep. here is a quick unboxing video for those who are curious. *”9 year old” daughter? no… 9 month old… geez, Joseph :P
I’ve published the source of my AIR for Android Flex 4.5 “Hero” example application “My Shit-List!” to a GitHub repository. One of the really neat things in this example, aside from the new Flex mobile stuff, is the integration of FlexORM in the project to simplify my use of SQLite databases. FlexORM is an Object …
Seems like whenever Adobe is showing off Flash or AIR on mobile, it’s nearly always a game being shown! I have nothing against games but there is a lot of impressive stuff out there that has nothing to do with gaming. As an example of this, I contribute the following video; within which I demonstrate …
A few weeks ago, I was being interviewed about my audio project “An Early Morning Letter, Displaced” and some questions came up around process. Specifically whether the process of creating had changed much for me over the last decade in regard to music composition. I’ve thought about this quite a bit since the interview and …
I really enjoy little community based competitions contributions like this one at http://www.riagora.com/ put on by Adobe Flash Platform Evangelist, Michaël Chaize. Time to promote the amazing new features of Flash Builder 4 to experiment the best coding experience for your Flex 3 and Flex 4 projects. To highlight these new features, I could list …
I built a greenscreen for chroma keying video/photos in my studio for about 5 dollars. Grabbed about six sheets of neon-green poster board from a local store and used some other bits I had lying around; easel, cardboard, non-reflective tape, staple gun, duct tape… You can see the result below! Admittedly ghetto… but for my …
It’s really interesting to me how creative impulses can arrive in little, concentrated spurts. This is how ideas usually manifest themselves to me, and when they do, I like to grab ahold and just go with it. The past few days I was feeling kinda dry, creatively. Happens every once in awhile and to be …