Feathers 1.2 BETA This beta release includes a few new components, including Alert, Drawers, and LayoutGroup as well as many new minor features and a number of bug fixes. Read up on the details over at the Feathers discussion forum. 360|Flex 2014 After 360|Stack this past Summer, it seems there was enough interest in Flex voiced […]
Flash Platform Rundown – Week of October 20th, 2013 Read More »
This is an experiment – we’ll see how it goes… but I plan on doing a weekly or semi-weekly rundown of happenings in the Flash Platform community on this blog in the spirit of what Brian Rinaldi used to do a few years back (and continues to do for JavaScript, HTML & CSS). I’m still
Flash Platform Rundown – Week of October 13th, 2013 Read More »
This past Friday, I joined up with James Williamson, Ray Villalobos, and Morten Rand-Hendriksen for some conversations around Google Web Designer, Adobe security woes, Flash, WebGL, Shumway, and ABSINTHE!!! Streamed live on Oct 4, 2013 Joseph Labrecque joins the team to talk about Google Web Designer, the Adobe security breach, iPhone fingerprint scanners, WebGL, and
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Video demonstration of how to update the Adobe AIR SDK and new compiler which is bundled with Flash Builder 4.7
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LevelUp for Photoshop is a game of missions — and points and rewards — that guide you along the way of learning basic Adobe® Photoshop® CC software skills. If you are just starting to use Photoshop, this is the game for you. We just shipped an updated version of LevelUp that contains a new, fifth,
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Despite Flash being a “dead” technology – there sure is a lot of activity going on in the community. This post highlights some of the more prominent, recent releases to a number of these libraries, frameworks, and tools. Starling 1.4 Starling is a pure ActionScript 3 library that mimics the conventional Flash display list architecture.
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This post is just going to be a quick rundown on a neat trick I cobbled together today. I build out a lot of services and such at the university which include embed-able widgets and players and such. Traditionally, we’ve used a SWF for all of these things and have used an object/embed type of
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I recently spoke at the Flash Camp Hawaii event on using Adobe’s gaming tools (Flash!) for education. Slides are below! Flash has always been an important enabler for education and with the current emphasis on gaming in both the Flash Platform and in educational gamification – it’s a good idea to keep up with what
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Looks like all of the session videos from 360|Stack this year are FREE. Check them out over at the video site. My session on Starling and Feathers is embedded, below: JOSEPH LABRECQUE – BUILDING GPU-ACCELERATED MOBILE APPLICATION INTERFACES WITH STARLING AND FEATHERS Apache Flex is great for application UI… but it isn’t GPU-accelerated :( New
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My “Adobe Flash Professional CC: Learn by Video” course is now available as an online video stream at Peachpit. The physical DVD version should be available in the next few months 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
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This morning at 360|Stack (formerly 360|Flex) in Denver, CO; it was announced that Apache Flex 4.10 has been released and is available for download. I’d suggesting using the installer linked through the image, below: You can read the official announcement if desired. Here are some highlights: Support for latest versions of Flash Player and AIR
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Apache Flex is great for application UI… but it isn’t GPU-accelerated :( New versions of Adobe AIR perform quite spectacularly on mobile and really blaze when tapping into the device GPU. If your mobile application requires this sort of performance – there is a solution to be found in the Starling framework along with Feathers
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