Over the past few years, I’ve argued – passionately discussed – with Adobe as to why they should be paying much more attention to Flash Professional (soon to be Animate CC) as a creative tool. I spoke with many people about the value of Flash Professional and the wider Flash Platform… across many segments of the company… and […]
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Flash lives, indeed! Last week I joined Tom Green, Dee Sadler, and Justin Seeley for a recording of Pixel Pundits to talk all about the new Adobe Animate CC (currently known as Flash Professional CC). It was a great discussion ;) Listen here.
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Adobe has announced the release of all new versions of the major desktop applications available through Creative Cloud. There are a couple of applications which have not had updates made available during this milestone release… primary among those is Flash Professional CC. Flash Professional CC is now Animate CC Flash Professional has had a strong
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Here is the recording and slides for my presentation “Flash Professional CC 2015: A New Era in Animation and Interactivity” for the Boulder Valley Adobe User Group. See how Flash Professional CC lets you create assets and animations for any use case, device, browser or platform. Too often, users confuse the Flash Professional application with
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Had a really productive MAX this year with one session and a lab given twice – meaning that I presented across all three days of the conference. I was positive going into MAX about where Adobe is taking the application… but after talking with attendees and discussing the product with Adobe employees and community members
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Why Flash Professional Still Matters for the web and beyond from Joseph Labrecque Adobe has placed some very significant effort into making Flash Professional a multi-platform, target-agnostic animation and asset creation tool. The results — are spectacular! No longer constrained to a single platform and budding with new creative tooling; Flash Professional has become an
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Having been on vacation – I’m a bit late in posting this… but last week was invited to join Apache Flex as a committer. I accepted :) The Apache Flex PMC is excited to welcome Joseph Labrecque as our newest committer! Joseph has been steadily contributing to the Flash and Flex community for several years.
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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 Train Simple: Flash Professional CC Mobile App Development! This course is designed for experienced Flash and ActionScript designers and developers. Joseph Labrecque will show you how to take advantage of mobile device hardware using new API’s in ActionScript 3.0. You’ll see how you can produce apps and publish
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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 been absent from this regional conference in Boulder, CO for a couple of years now – but will be at the University of Colorado campus for COLTT 2015 in August. The title of my talk is Mobile Application Development Technology Roundup – where I’ll be examining the differences between some of my favorite cross-platform
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Adobe MAX October 3-7, 2015, Los Angeles, CA Adobe has announced the initial set of speakers for MAX 2015 and I am happily involved with both a session and a lab! While I have spoken at a number of past MAX sessions, I have never done a lab before – so this is something I am
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