Adobe recently restructured the Creative Cloud learning resources area into the new Creative Cloud Learn Central gateway which provides a plethora of tutorials for getting started with Creative Cloud apps. These videos are sourced from a number of resources, including videos from various community leaders working through Adobe, Infinite Skills, Lynda.com, Kelby Training, Train Simple, […]
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The big news this week is an update to Flash Professional CC and a couple neat extensions which go along with it! Flash Professional CC (13.1) Released On the tooling side of things, Flash Professional CC (13.1) was finally released! The focus of this release is native support for HTML5 Canvas as a document type
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The Wormwood Society has released a well-worded statement on the situation involving the Swiss IGP for exclusive use of the word “Absinthe”. The full text is represented below – but you are also encouraged to view the original at The Wormwood Society website and spread awareness around this important issue. This would require all European
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The focus of this release of Flash Professional CC is the new native HTML5 Canvas workflow, which features a contextual user interface along with relative publishing options. HTML5 Canvas is a new document type added to Flash Professional CC that generates an .FLA file for authoring, and targets the canvas tag of HTML. This option
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Updates to Flash Player 12 and AIR 4 betas Adobe has updated the beta runtimes to include some really cool new features on top of the ones which have already been announced. These include an improved packager for iOS, ANE resource improvements in Android, textfield enhancements for desktop, and a new Context3D convenience array. More
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Before getting into the topic at hand, just a quick mention that I’ll probably be posting more and more in regard to this recent passion of mine (absinthe). I’ve been exploring the world of absinthe for over two years now – and I learn more and more all the time. It’s a passion and as
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A box of these just showed up at my doorstep. Looks like they are now available for sale online as well! This critically acclaimed interactive training program from Adobe Press offers exceptional quality high-definition video to teach the fundamentals of Adobe Flash Professional CC. Including more than 4 hours of video tutorials, the course comes
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A ton of things happened in the Flash Platform world over the past week. There is a lot to take in – so let’s get started! Flash Player 12 and AIR 4 betas This week saw the initial beta releases for both Flash Player 12 and Adobe AIR 4. The Adobe Flash Platform runtimes, Flash
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Very pleased to see my new course with Lynda.com, “Building a Mobile App with Feathers and Starling“, published to the online training library. There are a number of free sample videos from the course that anyone can access – and subscribers can complete the entire course from start to finish. If you are looking to
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As the end of the year approaches, I imagine news will thin out a bit as people go about celebrating holidays and wrapping up the current year. This may go bi-weekly during this time depending upon how much news there is. This week also includes a pretty significant milestone: the 2 year anniversary of the
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I came across this new tool from Intel this morning: Intel XDK. I remember looking at this a while back in it’s previous incarnation but it wasn’t as appealing at the time. It didn’t offer much over other IDEs and the relience upon a login with Intel was off-putting. Since that time… and after the
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Apache Flex 4.11 Released! The Apache Flex 4.11.0 release contains many improvements that professional software development teams will appreciate. This advances the framework forward. It is truly one of the best cross-platform programming languages used to write applications that are testable and can be compiled to run on multiple technology platforms from a single set
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