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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After presenting on this topic last month for the Hawaii Flash User Group, I was approached by the FMS User Group asking if I would do the presentation for them as well. No problem, right! This presentation will provide an introduction to Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5 and the use of streaming video with the …
In mid-2010, I released a small project of mine called DropFolders to the general public. The application is built upon Adobe AIR and makes extensive use of the Native Process API to coordinate video transcode jobs through an embedded instance of the HandBrake CLI. It also adds a simple mechanism to employ a set of …
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 …
This is another new features demonstration which I originally wrote for my upcoming AIR 3 book showing the StageText class in action on a device! Native Text Input UI (mobile) — Mobile apps can now take advantage of the native text input controls on mobile platforms, including platform-specific user interaction behaviors such as magnification and …
I’ve had this example of the Vibration ActionScript Native Extension (ANE) on my DROID3 for some time now and am just thrilled with the expanded capabilities of ANE in Adobe AIR 3 for both mobile and desktop. Wanted to share this example which I originally wrote for my upcoming AIR 3 book which displays the …
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 …
In this workshop, top Flash expert Joseph Labrecque is your guide to Flash Builder 4.5. After a quick introduction to Flash Builder for those who may be unfamiliar, he covers the many new features in the latest version, including new coding features and Spark components. The course includes a chapter on mobile development where you’ll …
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I’m happy to announce that I’ve undertaken a new authoring project for Adobe Press along with co-author Peter Elst and video2brain! The project is titled Mobile Development with Flash Professional CS5.5 and Flash Builder 4.5 : Learn by Video and is available for preorder on the Adobe Press website and at Amazon.com. At this point, …
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The University of Denver held a TEDx event today. We fed an RTMP signal through a VBrick unit to an internal Flash Media Server for authentication to be distributed over CDN and exposed to viewers through the Open Source Media Framework Strobe Media Playback. I was curious how the feed would look over a variety of devices. …
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Demo of mobile Flex 4.5 using Flash Builder 4.5.
Both of my video tutorials on customizing STrobe Media Playback are now available over at ActiveTuts+. If you are interested in doing simple skinning of SMP or want to recompile a customized version; I’ve got you covered! UPDATE: Also be sure to check out Tom Green‘s overview over at WebdesignTuts+! Getting Started with Strobe Media …
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