Everyone applauding the default to HTML5 from Flash Player on YouTube should recall that without Flash, YouTube would not exist. Or HTML5. — Joseph Labrecque (@JosephLabrecque) January 28, 2015 Many stories are running about this over the past few days and they all give the impression that Flash Player is no longer used when delivering …
Adobe is holding a number of neat professional development events for educators over the next few months. I’ll be hosting two sessions on Flash Professional CC at the end of October that I encourage you to attend. The morning session will go over the basics of getting content from Adobe Illustrator into a Flash Project, animating …
Over the past two weeks, I’ve taken on a project to convert an old (OLD) Flash interactive tool to HTML5. My primary reason for doing this is not so that it will run on mobile browsers… but rather that it would be an easier task to rewrite the thing in HTML5 rather than get all …
Lynda.com has published the long-awaited course on HTML5 Game Development with Phaser! Special thanks to Richard Davey for looking over the code and providing guidance in the development of this course. Phaser is a cross-platform game development framework for both mobile and desktop games. This fast, fun, and free framework supports both JavaScript and TypeScript, …
A panel at the 2014 Adobe Education Leader Institute at the heart of Adobe’s corporate headquarters in San Jose, California – with; Joseph Labrecque of the University of Denver, Andrew Phelps of the Rochester Institute of Technology, and Chris Campbell of Adobe Systems Inc. A week from today I will be making the case for …
With Packt Publishing celebrating 10 years of delivering effective learning and information services to IT professionals… they are offering most digital copies of the books they publish for only $10 USD! This offer is valid until July 5th if anyone wants to take advantage. They have a pretty huge library of titles to choose from… …
The other day I posted about using sprite sheets generated from the 2014 release of Flash Professional CC and using those within Edge Animate CC. It’s an awesome workflow between the two applications and works really, really well. A reader commented about a number of things – and one of the specific things that was …
Multi-Symbol Sprite Sheets from Flash Professional CC to Edge Animate CC Read More »
Do you have an interest in App development? Are you constantly being asked to show students how to create an App? Do you teach a computer class and have a desire to take your own class in a new direction through App development or are you simply intrigued to know how to build your first …
Now that the 2014 release of Adobe Creative Cloud is released and available to everyone, I’d like to highlight one of the coolest new workflow enhancements between two of my favourite applications: Flash Professional and Edge Animate! Flash Professional is a highly flexible asset generation beast. You can use all sorts of internal tools to …
Flash Professional CC 2014 – Edge Animate Sprite Sheets Read More »
Now that the 2014 release of Adobe Creative Cloud is released and available to everyone, I’d like to highlight one of the coolest new workflow enhancements between two of my favourite applications: Flash Professional and Edge Animate! Flash Professional is a highly flexible asset generation beast. You can use all sorts of internal tools to …
Flash Professional CC 2014 – SVG Export for Edge Animate Read More »
As part of my “day job” at the University of Denver, I try to both get university people interested in Adobe solutions and provide the means for Adobe people to get information to the university. One mechanism that has been set up for this is the ability to hold small, mini-conferences on campus with Adobe …
There been a bit of a stir lately around Flash (again)… caused by this Adobe post on some PhoneGap announcements for marketing. The Adobe Flash Runtimes platform PM, Chris Campbell, has posted a response to these comments and I’ve thrown in my opinion as well. Incidentally… while I do plenty of web standards work… most of my …
We are well into 2014… isn’t Flash dead already? Read More »