Year: 2012

Big day for Adobe releases; Lightroom, SWF Investigator, Adobe Gaming, and SHADOW

So Adobe has gone kinda nuts over the past 24 hours. Here’s all the new goodies: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4 software provides a comprehensive set of digital photography tools, from powerfully simple one-click adjustments to cutting-edge advanced controls. Create images that inspire, inform, and delight. http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom.html Adobe SWF Investigator Adobe® SWF …

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Flash iOS Apps Cookbook – Book Review

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 …

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Flash Runtimes Whitepaper

I wasn’t actually going to write anything about the recently published Flash runtimes (Flash Player, AIR) whitepaper simply because it’s big enough news… and I really didn’t have anything to contribute. The whitepaper itself is a detailed look into the next 2 years of the evolution of the runtimes layed out for everyone to see. …

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I’m Speaking at 360|Flex in Denver

I’ll be talking all about using BlazeDS with Flex and Java! We’ll see why AMF is so useful whether being used in ColdFusion or Java get an overview of how to use these technologies together to create great applications. Joseph Labrecque – Leveraging BlazeDS, Java, and Flex: Dynamic Data Transfer Flex developers have it easy …

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I’m FAWMing this Month

I had never heard of February Album Writing Month [FAWM] before this year but it seems to have actually been around for quite some time. The idea behind it is that you commit to writing 14 songs in 28 days. Since 2012 is a leap year, it’s going to be 14 1/2 songs over 29 …

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Adobe Edge Preview 4 – Using Symbols

Adobe Edge is a new motion and interactivity tool from Adobe which can output rich, interactive compositions using standard web technologies like HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. I’ve recorded a small set of videos demonstrating some of the new features of Adobe Edge Preview 4 and present them here. Joseph Labrecque demonstrates how to use Adobe …

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Adobe Edge Preview 4 – Using Web Fonts

Adobe Edge is a new motion and interactivity tool from Adobe which can output rich, interactive compositions using standard web technologies like HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. I’ve recorded a small set of videos demonstrating some of the new features of Adobe Edge Preview 4 and present them here. Joseph Labrecque demonstrates how to use Adobe …

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Forthcoming Book: Learning Adobe Edge

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 …

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