Great new resource from Adobe showing off some future products, services, and workflows that Creative Suite engineers are working on: Design and Web News and views from Paul and Lea. Paul Gubbay is Sr. Director Engineering and Lea Hickman is Sr. Director Product Management for the Creative Suite Design and Web Tools, Suites and Services. …
I’ve been looking for an opportunity to take advantage of the new flash.desktop.NativeProcess class within AIR 2.0 and was fortunate enough to have a quick project fall into my lap early this week that would serve as the perfect testing ground. If you aren’t familiar with NativeProcess, it basically gives you the ability to interact …
If you’re like me and couldn’t make it to the Flash Gaming Summit, you’ll definitely want to check out these Connect recordings: Session Recordings from Flash Gaming Summit I’d also recommend checking out the Flash Platform Game Technology Center on DevNet.
There is a lot of exciting news for the Flash Platform community coming out of Barcelona, Spain at the Mobile World Congress. Firstly, Adobe has announced that Flash Player 10.1 is coming for almost all mobile operating systems including Android, the BlackBerry® platform, Symbian® OS, Palm® webOS and Windows Mobile®. Flash Player 10.1 is the …
Okay- Adobe has a great chance to show the world how solid Flash Player and AIR engineering can be. Like any development or engineering team, they have limited resources and need help from the outside world to make these the best releases ever. Tired of “buggy” Flash and “lazy” engineers ruining your browsing experience?** Here …
Ever since Apple announced their new iPad, I’ve been reading a whole lot about how HTML5 will replace (I believe “kill” is the preferred term) Flash. Most arguments state that the emerging HTML5 spec includes such things as <canvas> and <video> which effectively renders the need for Flash a thing of the past… seriously? I …
A strange thing has been happening over the past year or so. It has become quite fashionable amoung open source advocates, social media “experts”, and HTML5 zealots to talk down Flash with every breath… Well, that was the start of an article I’ve been writing for the past three weeks or so. It was a …
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I built a greenscreen for chroma keying video/photos in my studio for about 5 dollars. Grabbed about six sheets of neon-green poster board from a local store and used some other bits I had lying around; easel, cardboard, non-reflective tape, staple gun, duct tape… You can see the result below! Admittedly ghetto… but for my …
While building a little Twitter aggregator for an upcoming conference, I found myself in need of a set of methods to create hyperlinks from three distinct elements that can be included within a tweet; links, usernames, and hashtags. I was able to find regular expressions to do all the heavy lifting from various sources on …
After the release of Shudderflowers by An Early Morning Letter, Displaced last Autumn, I decided to explore some of the harsher elements of that album within my other aural project, Strangling Strangers. Strangling Strangers is a project that I’ve tinkered with for years after coming up with alternate material at the turn of the century …
I haven’t done a lot of Flash development this weekend. Mostly I’ve been baking bread. I love good breads, so when a co-worker of mine introduced me to the No-Knead Bread method developed by Jim Lahey… I developed a quick fanaticism over it. I’ve made three loafs of bread in the past few days. Awesome …
The more I work with Flex 4, the more I understand why certain choices were made regarding the new component architecture, especially in regard to skinning. I stumbled, at first, as the skinning model is quite different and can appear much more cumbersome at first glance. Like most Flex devs, I was used to just …