I recently gave a talk on Flash Professional CC and CreateJS for Adobe and WebProfessionals.org. Slides and recording are up! Recording Link: http://seminars.adobeconnect.com/p1kqnaqlwzx/ Also: What?!? Flash Professional CC will target the Dart language from Google??? Crazy talk!
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I’m back from an interesting five days of Adobe MAX in Los Angeles and have a few thoughts I’d like to share. A quick reminder: this is the first MAX since the disastrous events of November 9th, 2011 occurred. It was definitely a different experience this year… but many elements of the conference were quite
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Presented at the Adobe MAX Community Pavilion in Los Angeles, CA on May 8th, 2013. We’ll be having at look at the Absinthe Dilution Faerie mobile app and how it was created with Adobe Creative Cloud tooling and services. You might even learn a thing of two about Absinthe… Slides: Recording: Presented at Adobe MAX
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Presented at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, CA on May 6th, 2013. This session will examine the Adobe Edge Animate Symbol structure and demonstrate a number of ways to achieve functional results similar to ActionScript using jQuery and JavaScript APIs. Learn these valuable techniques from Joseph Labrecque, senior interactive software engineer at the University of
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There arn’t the normal set of unconferences this year as normally found at MAX; FITC, 360, and others are pretty well absent from the community pavilion this time around. The good news is that thee is a new community based effort this year: the Show and Tell Theater! Here, people from Adobe and the community
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Very pleased to announce that I’ve started a new publishing relationship with Lynda.com and the first course in their library is “Getting Started with ActionScript”! How did this come about? After my former publisher, video2brain was acquired – a number of us authors were asked whether we’d like to join the Lynda.com team and were
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Building GPU-Accelerated Mobile Application Interfaces with Starling and Feathers 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
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I’ve been working a lot with PhoneGap lately for both personal projects and teaching. Because of this, I’ve taken some time to check out some of the newer books on the subject. The last book I’ve had a chance to look over is the PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot published by Packt (Packt being
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Absinthe Dilution Faerie version 2.0 is now available for free via Google Play! “Absinthe Dilution Faerie” is a small application which calculates how much water one should temper a dose of absinthe with in accordance with the ABV percentage as laid out by Michael Meyers of The Wormwood Society. So what’s new in this version?
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I’ve been doing a lot of digging around in PhoneGap lately. This dovetails nicely with my Edge Animate and Edge Reflow work – but I also see it as an extension of my work with Adobe AIR and Flash Player on mobile. One of the interesting things about working in web technologies with modern browsers
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I’ll be happily speaking at Adobe MAX again this year on one of my favorite new topics: Edge Animate! Specifically: Using Edge Animate to Create a Reusable Component Set. Title: Using Edge Animate to Create a Reusable Component Set Description: This session will examine the Adobe Edge Animate Symbol structure and demonstrate a number of
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Most PhoneGap “Hello World” examples make you go through the task of configuring PhoneGap on your system and making sure your system PATH is set with Android Virtual Device support and a bunch of command line interfacing… and it is CONFUSING for newcomers! What if you just want to write your code… test your code
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