I’m very pleased to announce that my new book “Learning Adobe Edge Animate” is now in print and available through the publisher and is soon to be made available a wide variety of international retailers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the like. For those looking for digital versions; these will be available shortly …
How great! My new course (in partnership with video2brain, Peachpit Press, and Adobe Press) is now available as a retail boxed DVD set with booklet or as an online resource. This is the final of my Flash Professional CS6 training courses for this cycle and is the longest of them all – clocking in at …
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Now that Adobe Creative Suite CS6 has been released, here is a little round-up of content from myself and others that you can use to get started with Flash Professional CS6! AdobeTV First, check out the great content over at AdobeTV. There are videos from Adobe peeps like Paul Trani and Tom Barclay – and …
Happy to announce that in light of the Adobe Creative Suite 6 announce; my newest video course with video2brain has now been published! Adobe Flash Professional CS6: New Features Workshop Learn What’s New and How It Affects You In this course, Flash authority Joseph Labrecque looks at the new features available in Flash Professional CS6 …
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Hot off the presses! My new book with Packt has been released and is now available: Adobe Edge Quickstart Guide! This smaller book is being published in addition to a larger Learning Adobe Edge due later this year which covers the final release version of the Edge application and associated technologies. Adobe Edge Quickstart Guide …
I recently acquired and was able to read over the Flash iOS Apps Cookbook by Christopher Caleb. The book is available from Packt in both print and digital formats. I was interested in reading this particular book since I authored the comparable Android-focused volume; Flash Development for Android Cookbook. As someone who has never developed …
Happy to make known the fact that my forthcoming book with Packt has been officially announced: Learning Adobe Edge! My editor and I actually began talking about this book while I was still in the process of writing Flash Development for Android Cookbook. This was right after the “EDGE Prototype” was shown at the Adobe …
ActionScript is an object-oriented programming language that has a wide reach on the web, the desktop, mobile devices, and beyond. If you want to be able to hit many targets with one code base, ActionScript is a great way to do so; it also lets you build a variety of application types, from 2D and …
O’Reilly has published a set of books that I was able to get together over the past few months, leading up to the new Flash Platform runtime releases in October: “What’s New in Flash Player 11” and “What’s New in Adobe AIR 3“. These books are companion pieces as there is obvious overlap between what …
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I’ll be at the official Adobe MAX bookstore at 10:00am on Wednesday, October 5th during Adobe MAX for a book signing with Peter Elst. Come down and say hi to us! Stick around for Ben Forta directly afterwards! Good times for all! Note that I’ll sign any of my books if you bring them :) …
Adobe today announced that Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 will be shipping fairly soon. This is great news for the community because the runtimes are LOADED with great new features. How do I know the features are great? Because I’ve been working with them for the past couple of months while writing a set …
This publication is a set of DVDs (7 hours, 20 minutes) along with a 48 page book covering mobile application development using Flash Builder 4.5 and Flash Professional CS5.5 targeting both Apple iOS and Google Android. I had the opportunity to co-author this title along with the excellent Peter Elst earlier this year. Happy that …