Last evening, I was interviewed by Jeffry Houser and John Wilker of The Flex Show with a focus on Flex Development in Higher Education. We chatted about a general overview of Flex and education, some Flex projects I’m involved with at the University of Denver, a bit about the Adobe Education Leader program, and emerging […]
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About a month ago, a representative from Packt Publishing contacted me to gauge my interest in writing a book on the Adobe Flash Platform and Android operating system. After speaking with her and nailing things down with the assistance of Acquisition Editor Wilson D’souza, a contract was put together and I’m now well into writing
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This session was given to the Adobe Education Community on December 2nd, 2010 Join Joseph Labrecque [Adobe Education Leader, Higher Ed] from the University of Denver as he provides a session demonstrating the uniquely portable nature of the Adobe CS5 toolchain originating in Illustrator and branching out to Photoshop, InDesign, and finally Flash Catalyst. See
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The latest Android OS update is here – check it out! Grab Gingerbread from the Android site now! Read the list of new features! Hopefully carriers and manufacturers will be more on-the-ball this time and get Gingerbread into the hands of consumers sooner rather than later…
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My ActiveTuts+ two part series on Flash Catalyst is now online. Check out both parts below! Using Flash Catalyst to Design a Film Trailer Website: Structure and Navigation In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how simple it is to build a film trailer website using Flash Catalyst. Learn how to import a Photoshop file and build
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The GoogleTV device that was given to all (most?) Adobe MAX 2010 attendees just showed up at my doorstep. here is a quick unboxing video for those who are curious. *”9 year old” daughter? no… 9 month old… geez, Joseph :P
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Upon the solid groundwork laid by the Flash Player 10.1 release, Adobe continues to innovate by adding some incredible new features to the runtime in a beta of Flash Player 10.2. There are two, in particular, that I will highlight: Native Custom Mouse Cursors Do you know how long I’ve waited for the ability to
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This is just a short post to document that both my business, “Fractured Vision Media, LLC“, and my experimental darkambient project “An Early Morning Letter, Displaced” have Facebook pages now. Please like and favorite as appropriate! I’ve also loaded up a bunch of Fractured Vision Media distributed tracks to Soundcloud: Latest tracks by Fractured Vision
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If so, here is a list of resources and offers currently going on! Overview information: Tablet OS Application Development Check out the webcast series and other developer resources: BlackBerry Tablet OS Development Resources Develop an app, get a FREE PlayBook!: BlackBerry PlayBook Developer Promotion Information The PlayBook looks to be a very cool device –
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An article I had written on using a variety of ActionScript and Alchemy-based audio encoding libraries in Flash Player has been published over at CodeBass. Check it out and even play with the demo set from within your web browser. Full source code and links to referenced AS3 libraries is also available. Nice to finally
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I’ve published the source of my AIR for Android Flex 4.5 “Hero” example application “My Shit-List!” to a GitHub repository. One of the really neat things in this example, aside from the new Flex mobile stuff, is the integration of FlexORM in the project to simplify my use of SQLite databases. FlexORM is an Object
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On the days I drive into the office, before getting on I-25 to travel south to Denver, I normally stop by Starbucks for a coffee. My normal coffee is a Venti “bold pick of the day”, black. Today, I was feeling hungry so ordered a cranberry orange scone as well. After waiting in line at
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