My new course, “Vanilla JavaScript: Animations“, has been published this evening by LinkedIn Learning and Lynda.com! Explore strategies and techniques for animating content using JavaScript and native web technologies. In this focused course, instructor Joseph Labrecque demonstrates how to use vanilla JavaScript to perform common animations within modern web browsers. Joseph begins by covering basic […]
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I have another article up on the Adobe Animate team blog – this time dealing with the basics of using JavaScript and CreateJS within Animate CC. For nearly 20 years, the programming language used within Animate (Flash Professional) projects has been ActionScript. So why the current shift to JavaScript? Well, it isn’t exactly as simple
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I’ve received a lot of inquiries by Edge Animate users as to how to make items responsive within Animate CC. So many, in fact, that I decided to produce a number of demonstration projects, record some video on each one, and write this little article. First, I’ll just emphasize that the way Edge Animate handles things
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Pleased to present a new course for Lynda.com: HTML5 Canvas and WebGL in Flash Professional CC! Create a shared pool of content for a set of related projects—HTML5 video, a WebGL-rendered interactive ad, and an HTML5 Canvas game—using Flash Professional CC. No longer restricted to only ActionScript and Flash Player, Flash Professional CC offers more
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Pleased to present a new course for Lynda.com: Building Custom HTML5 Video Playback with AngularJS! Develop a customized responsive video app that performs and appears great in all browsers, using AngularJS and Bootstrap. HTML video doesn’t require plugins for playback, but the default experience differs drastically across browsers. Using a combination of Bootstrap and AngularJS,
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I’ve always found that getting started with PhoneGap if you hadn’t used it before (and sometimes even if you have) to be an exercise in frustration which even when it all goes well… takes some time and dedication. For example… Here are the steps I take when setting up on a new Windows environment for
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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
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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
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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,
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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…
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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
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I recently gave a short set of talks for the Adobe Apps for Education: Live! series which aims to demonstrate uses of Adobe products for educational purposes in short, 30 minute project examples. These are divided into two talks; a morning talk for beginners, and an evening talk for advanced concepts. There are links to
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