Video: AIR 2.0 NativeProcess Example

If you’re like me and couldn’t make it to the Flash Gaming Summit, you’ll definitely want to check out these Connect recordings:

Session Recordings from Flash Gaming Summit
I’d [...]

Okay- Adobe has a great chance to show the world how solid Flash Player and AIR engineering can be. Like any development or engineering team, they have [...]

A strange thing has been happening over the past year or so. It has become quite fashionable amoung open source advocates, social media “experts”, and HTML5 zealots [...]

While building a little Twitter aggregator for an upcoming conference, I found myself in need of a set of methods to create hyperlinks from three distinct elements [...]

I haven’t done a lot of Flash development this weekend. Mostly I’ve been baking bread.
I love good breads, so when a co-worker of mine introduced me [...]

Similar to the Nexus One demo, Adrian Ludwig shows Flash Player 10.1 running on the Motorola Droid.

Sweet!
This may be timed to coincide with CES 2010 in Las [...]

As per my annual habit, I’m providing a rundown of significant events and reflections for the past year, organized by category. Like always, this is more of [...]

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to speak to a media distribution vendor who posed the question “Does your University have a mobile strategy?” Absolutely we [...]

To continue the donation incentives began by Elad Elrom and continued by Brian Connatser, I’m also adding an incentive for those who contribute to the 2010 RIA [...]

Just like the sign says… VidLoop 1.4.18 is out on Adobe AIR Marketplace.
It’s been a year since I released the initial version (built over last Thanksgiving holiday) [...]

Screw Internet Explorer! This is one of the many reasons I prefer to avoid having a browser render anything at all for me. Can’t trust [...]

Last month, I participated in a phone interview with the education team at Adobe to talk about how the University of Denver is using Flash Media Server [...]

I’d encourage anyone going to Educause in Denver to stop by the Adobe Booth (#909) for a theater presentation by myself and John Schuman.

Streaming Video for Education
Wednesday, [...]

Absolutely wonderful that Google has finally released an AS3 version of their chromeless player for use in Flex/AS3 projects. No more weird proxy hacks!!!
I’ve thrown [...]

Just a quick note that I probably won’t get to posting materials from my session until after MAX is over. Just too much going on.
The session [...]

We all know that to have Javascript menus and such overlay embedded Flash content, that we need to set the WMODE parameter of our embed code to [...]

I actually forgot to apply the “smoothing” property to a flash.display.Bitmap display object being scaled inside Flash Player. Just look at the difference such an oversight [...]

Every once in awhile, I receive postcards and such from my undergraduate institution, Worcester State College. I hold a BA in Communications Media from this school [...]

At the Adobe Education Leader Summer Institute this past July, I gave a presentation entitled Leveraging the Flash Platform to Deliver Dynamic Media Across Campus which dealt [...]

I just posted a video on the Adobe Education Leader weblog showcasing a lot of the neat tools we’ve built into the University of Denver CourseMedia™ system. [...]

With the completion of Shudderflowers, An Early Morning Letter, Displaced now presents the first in a series of new tracks on MySpace Music:
Waning Flower falls at track [...]

The re-release of both August and Through Darkened Eyes are now available via CD Baby (and soon through Napster, iTunes, Rhapsody, et cetera…)

2000 Fractured Vision Media
Primarily dealing [...]

In reading over the Adobe AIR 1.5.2 Release Notes, the most noticeable change for end-users seems to be a friendlier install screen for signed apps.
The AIR application [...]

The 2009 Adobe Education Leader Summer Institute in now over and my intention is to document a few thoughts here while everything is still fresh in my [...]

I recently gave a presentation at the Adobe Education Leader Summer Institute on what the University of Denver is doing in regard to the Flash Platform focusing [...]

The music distributor CD Baby just completed a huge update over the weekend. Looks like they have some Flex going on in the user admin area:

It’s [...]

Work on the upcoming release by An Early Morning Letter, Displaced entitled “Shudderflowers” is proceeding much more quickly than anticipated. If things continue to come together [...]

The University of Denver Center for Teaching & Learning has (finally) released the DU CourseMedia™ Course Media Management System. This has been a focus of my [...]

I’ve been running this weblog for a few years now and find myself contributing to more than just one… http://blogs.adobe.com/educationleaders/ and http://ctl.du.edu/techblog/ are some other weblogs that [...]

Here’s some personal history- this probably colors my opinion a great deal. I first started messing around with “Flash” using Macromedia Flash 4 producing really awful [...]

I’ve always been the sort of person who tries to create in a vacuum. I prefer isolation and solitude when working on creative projects and have [...]

The Student Shuffler AIR application is now available via Adobe AIR Marketplace.

The app was built to facilitate a fair and transparent way of organizing classroom presentations whether [...]

“As the dark clouds of the economy envelope the marketing world, many wonder if digital marketing may be a ray of sunshine in the gloom. To find [...]

Nice. Adobe has apparently been working closely with Facebook and Jason Crist (original API dev.) to get a nice, solid API for Facebook apps ready for [...]

The last time I messed around with Twitter was mid-2007. I basically used it to post little status updates a-la Facebook and experimented with the (then) [...]

There are two items to note here.

Firstly, Adobe has done an awesome job updating the AIR Marketplace to be much more organized that the previous [...]

This is the final post in a three part tutorial detailing the creation of a Flash slideshow widget using ActionScript 3.0. Have a look over Part [...]

This is a simple example of how to build a dynamic slideshow widget in Flash using ActionScript 3.0 such as the one seen here.
The first thing you’ll [...]

This would have saved me some time had I read the documentation a little better.

When looking at the members of a flash.filesystem.File object, I was initially using [...]

A FlexEvent.IDLE event will dispatch every 100 milliseconds when there has been no keyboard or mouse activity for 1 second.  So, if you want to have some [...]

Last week, I was approached by someone asking if we could build a small application that would run a series of videos in a continual loop. [...]

Having visited the last sessions of the day and printed out my airline boarding pass, it’s time to wind down. I’m thinking of having another salt-encrusted [...]

WTF? Wasn’t the “Flash Platform” christened back in the Macromedia days? I’ve been calling it that ever since Macromedia released their original declarative whitepaper in [...]

The DUVAGA Projection System [VPS] has been featured in an article for the CTL Newsletter this quarter:

This fall, the DUVAGA development group released a
new version of the [...]

I’m spending a good amount of time the next few days preparing to leave Denver for San Fransisco and Adobe MAX 2008. This will be my [...]

Now that Halloween is over, I’d like to make this information more widely available:
AN EARLY MORNING LETTER, DISPLACED presents ‘Alice‘ – a free download made especially for [...]

This is the first time posting something of this nature- I do so hoping that someone will stumble upon it and be moved to make a donation.
Tara [...]

So, we have both Flash Player 10 final (10.0.12.36) released today on top of the CS4 products shipping. We also finally see Flash Player 9 bundled [...]

Sonar 8 was released a few weeks ago.  Being in the middle of a project at the time, I’ve had a good week or so to check [...]

I had heard about a security concern over Amazon’s video streaming service a few days ago with a lot of people (including some at Amazon) blaming Adobe [...]

A few weeks ago, I posted the following letter to this weblog as a note of departure.  I’ve since decided that it was a poor choice, and [...]

I haven’t been posting much lately as I’ve taken a good, long vacation this past month.  Unfortunately, the vacation turned into a severe health crisis almost overnight [...]

I’m taking a moment to highlight the Visual Media Center at the University of Denver and the relatively new weblog maintained by its Director, Leslie Trumble.

The VMC [...]

In past versions of FMS, developers were barred from accessing raw audio and video data over RTMP and had to resort to a number of hacks and [...]

I have this problem with Flex Builder 3.  If I have “Build Automatically” checked under “Project”, my workspace gets stuck in this “Building Workspace” limbo and can [...]

I’m really excited about a lot of developments that have been happening over the past few weeks and into the next few months!  This has prompted me [...]

I’m used to setting the ObjectEncoding to AMF0 when working with Flash Media Server 2, but haven’t realized till now that I also am required to do [...]

This is probably very obvious to a lot of people… but really the best way to take vacation is to refrain from any work. Just recently [...]

My official title at DU has been changed to Senior Multimedia Application Developer- very nice!
This new title is much more reflective of what I do on [...]

I’m using AIR integration with Flex Builder 3 to contain and package an AS2 SWF which was originally using Screenweaver for deployment to a standalone app.
The problem [...]

I’m working on a rather large AS3 project through Fractured Vision Media which relies on the flash.system.fscommand package to properly transmit data from the application to its [...]

I know it’s fashionable to trash Microsoft at every turn and I have a lot of gripes with the company (Internet Explorer, anyone?), but with Office 2007, [...]

When using the new XML object in ActionScript 3 and parsing the data with E4X, if your XML data has a “xmlns” attribute- you may have a [...]

I’ve put off experimenting with Red5 until today as I’m quite happy with Adobe’s solution (Flash Media Server) and Red5 is still deep in beta-land at the [...]

I’ve completed a new short film called “Window View” which can be viewed at The Memoryspiral.
[IMAGE MISSING]
“A scene from within a house- looking out at events in [...]

I fist tried Eclipse as a web development IDE a little over one year ago. At the time, I had mostly just stuck with Dreamweaver for [...]

Yesterday, I became so absolutely fed-up with the hosting provider I’ve had since 2002, PowWeb, that I decided to pack up and switch over to BlueHost. [...]

Can anyone recommend a nice, stable, FAST webhost? My patience with this current host is wearing thin… plagued by mySQL slowness.

Via Ted Patrick:

I’ve taken some time today to experiment with Twitter using the ActionScript 3.0 API that is available. It’s a very simple class library and, as such, [...]

Since reading this announcement on the Google Gears API Blog last evening, I’ve been wondering to myself (from time-to-time) how this would/could/will apply to the Apollo [...]

I own a Dell Inspiron 8600 notebook computer with the Intel 2100 3a Mini PCI wireless card installed. I’ve always had problems with this configuration and [...]

At times I get the feeling that life would be simpler if I were to just totally remove all references of myself from the internet. This [...]

There is an article in the ‘Featured’ section of the University of Denver student newspaper ‘The Clarion’ this week. The article is entitled “Program improves media, [...]

I’m surprised that while any sort of remote connection classes you could want are included in the core packages of ActionScript 3.0, if you are working with [...]

I’ll be at ApolloRanch in Boulder this coming Saturday evening. The event is scheduled to begin at 5 o’clock and run just shy of midnight. [...]

It was reported a few days ago that we will finally see a new version of CamStudio screen recording software! This is great news as the [...]

About a month ago, I was interviewed by a writer from the University of Denver faculty and staff monthly newspaper, ‘The Source’. The context of this [...]

Various Amazon worlwide stores have posted pricing info and box art for the upcoming Adobe CS3 product suites that will be officially announced tomorrow. Depending on [...]

CamStudio 2.0 is a free screen capture tool that can be used in the creation of tutorials, demos, and such. You can configure it to either [...]

I was able to devote an entire day to working with Flex Builder yesterday and am very pleased with the experience. Having previously done work in [...]

I’ll be presenting my work with Flash Media Server and the DUVAGAII project as part of a panel on March 29th at the Visual Resources Association’s 25th [...]

I’m currently building a standalone app in Flash/AS2 translated to an execuatable via Screenweaver. What has really been a downer are the incredible restictions placed upon [...]

I’ve placed my first public Flex module into my portfolio as a feedreader for this website. It’s a very simple module using no ActionScript to speak [...]

In my free time (right!) over the past few months, I’ve been working on some basic ActionScript 3.0 projects to familiarize myself with the new version. [...]

I’m very pleased to announce that this website is now aggregated by the Adobe Macromedia XML News Aggregator. I encounter a lot of unique situations in my [...]

DUVAGAII is an application which heavily relies on a number of Flash modules written in ActionScript 2.0 for delivery of images, audio, and video content. We [...]

Welcome. This is the central contact point and information center for Joseph Labrecque, Multimedia Developer and ActionScript Programmer. My goal for this website is to author an [...]