The State of Flash for the Web in 2014
I don’t normally post things like this… but it communicates the truth beautifully… Regardless of the use of the term “Flasher”, kudos to CommitStrip.
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Getting Started Experience: Flash Professional CC
Want to start using your Adobe Creative Cloud apps, but don’t know where to begin? That’s where we come in. The following tutorials will take you through a quick, entry-level project. You’ll see what you can do and be ready to learn more. People may have been wondering… “where is a “Getting Started” tutorial for …
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Flash Platform Rundown – Week of December 1st, 2013
The big news this week is an update to Flash Professional CC and a couple neat extensions which go along with it! Flash Professional CC (13.1) Released On the tooling side of things, Flash Professional CC (13.1) was finally released! The focus of this release is native support for HTML5 Canvas as a document type …
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Flash Professional CC (13.1) – December 2013 Release
The focus of this release of Flash Professional CC is the new native HTML5 Canvas workflow, which features a contextual user interface along with relative publishing options. HTML5 Canvas is a new document type added to Flash Professional CC that generates an .FLA file for authoring, and targets the canvas tag of HTML. This option …
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Flash Platform Rundown – End of November, 2013
Updates to Flash Player 12 and AIR 4 betas Adobe has updated the beta runtimes to include some really cool new features on top of the ones which have already been announced. These include an improved packager for iOS, ANE resource improvements in Android, textfield enhancements for desktop, and a new Context3D convenience array. More …
Adobe Flash Professional CC: Learn by Video [DVD-ROM]
A box of these just showed up at my doorstep. Looks like they are now available for sale online as well! This critically acclaimed interactive training program from Adobe Press offers exceptional quality high-definition video to teach the fundamentals of Adobe Flash Professional CC. Including more than 4 hours of video tutorials, the course comes …
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Flash Platform Rundown – Week of November 10th, 2013
A ton of things happened in the Flash Platform world over the past week. There is a lot to take in – so let’s get started! Flash Player 12 and AIR 4 betas This week saw the initial beta releases for both Flash Player 12 and Adobe AIR 4. The Adobe Flash Platform runtimes, Flash …
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Building a Mobile App with Feathers and Starling [Lynda.com]
Very pleased to see my new course with Lynda.com, “Building a Mobile App with Feathers and Starling“, published to the online training library. There are a number of free sample videos from the course that anyone can access – and subscribers can complete the entire course from start to finish. If you are looking to …
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Flash Platform Rundown – Week of November 3rd, 2013
As the end of the year approaches, I imagine news will thin out a bit as people go about celebrating holidays and wrapping up the current year. This may go bi-weekly during this time depending upon how much news there is. This week also includes a pretty significant milestone: the 2 year anniversary of the …
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Flash Platform Rundown – Week of October 27th, 2013
Apache Flex 4.11 Released! The Apache Flex 4.11.0 release contains many improvements that professional software development teams will appreciate. This advances the framework forward. It is truly one of the best cross-platform programming languages used to write applications that are testable and can be compiled to run on multiple technology platforms from a single set …
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Flash Platform Rundown – Week of October 20th, 2013
Feathers 1.2 BETA This beta release includes a few new components, including Alert, Drawers, and LayoutGroup as well as many new minor features and a number of bug fixes. Read up on the details over at the Feathers discussion forum. 360|Flex 2014 After 360|Stack this past Summer, it seems there was enough interest in Flex voiced …
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Flash Platform Rundown – Week of October 13th, 2013
This is an experiment – we’ll see how it goes… but I plan on doing a weekly or semi-weekly rundown of happenings in the Flash Platform community on this blog in the spirit of what Brian Rinaldi used to do a few years back (and continues to do for JavaScript, HTML & CSS). I’m still …
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