I have taken on a new authoring role as an ActiveTuts+ Correspondent writing a weekly industry news article focused on the Flash Platform. Having done about 10 video tutorials for them in the past and after covering Adobe MAX 2010 in Los Angeles, I believe the editors at ActiveTuts+ and I have a good relationship …
After months of preparation, the Flash Platform case study I was involved with between Adobe and the University of Denver has been published on the Adobe customer showcase website. I am a huge supporter of Industry and Higher Education working together and am happy to see this article finally see the light of day! The …
Presentation at the Adobe Education Leader Institute, San Jose, CA. 11:15am.-12:05pm. Wednesday July 28. 2010 Joseph will demonstrate how the University of Denver is leveraging the Flash Platform across the campus community to allow collaboration between students, faculty, and staff in a number of our web applications. Connectivity to Facebook and Twitter services will be …
Using Collaborative Media Services with Flash in University Applications Read More »
Presentation at the Teaching with Technology Conference, Boulder, CO. August 11, 2010 – 1:10 p.m. The University of Denver made a strong commitment to delivering rich media for classroom use across campus years ago and we are still going strong. This presentation will cover every aspect of video capture, cataloging, and delivery at DU today …
This will be a very productive Summer for conference presentations! I’ve had a proposal accepted to speak on interfacing the Flash Platform with live services in July during the Adobe Education Leader Summer Institute at Adobe HQ in San Jose, CA. Later on in August I’m presenting two different sessions in Boulder, CO at the …
Back at Adobe MAX 2009 in Los Angeles, I did a 30 minute presentation for FITC. This is a composite video from a screen recording I did on my presenter laptop merged with the live stream hosted by Influxis. I’ve been reformatting a lot of the presentations and webinars I’ve done over the past year …
Custom Event Reporting from Flash to Google Analytics Read More »
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 to talk down Flash with every breath… Well, that was the start of an article I’ve been writing for the past three weeks or so. It was a …
HTML5 and the Flash Platform – A Call for Sanity Read More »
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 do- at least my group of developers does. We’ve had the same strategy for a number of years now and that strategy is to hold and observe. This …
The obvious reason being that Flash is the overarching platform with many tools, IDEs, runtimes, et cetera and Flex is a framework used to produce Flash content. Flex Builder has always produced Flash (NOT FLEX) and I’ve encountered many people who just never could grasp this fact. This will help clarify things for so many …
For some time now, I’ve been using Google Analytics for various personal websites including this weblog. Recently though, we’ve begun using it at my place of employment and have received a request to track user generated events from a live Flash Media Server stream. After poking around a bit and coming upon numerous dead ends, …
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 Flash Platform. As a Flash Platform developer and Facebook user, this is nothing but good news. Very timely, too – as my department is looking to expand into …
ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API Read More »
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 Anniversary conference. It should be a fairly interesting panel and I will be demonstrating some of the video tools I’ve authored allowing instructors to produce short clips of …