I was recently invited to start producing content for ActiveTuts+ (a great bunch of people!) and my three-part series on using the AS3XLS libraries in Flex has now been published in its entirety. Best viewed in full screen, of course: Using AS3XLS with the Flex Framework: Excel Import This tutorial will cover implementation of the […]
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Seems like whenever Adobe is showing off Flash or AIR on mobile, it’s nearly always a game being shown! I have nothing against games but there is a lot of impressive stuff out there that has nothing to do with gaming. As an example of this, I contribute the following video; within which I demonstrate
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My Adobe MAX 2010 Sessions: 1:35pm October 24th: Open Source Media Framework for Education [LACC 506] 2:00pm October 26th: “Emergent Collective One” – All the Little Pieces… [FITC Unconference Room] 11:00pm October 27th: Progressing beyond the Desktop at Universities with Adobe AIR [LACC 514]
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We all know that ColdFusion allows Flash Remoting (AMF) communication to occur via two separate URL strings: http://my.site.com/flex2gateway http://my.site.com/flashservices/gateway I recently came across the problem where the URL Rewrite rules in IIS7 were blocking both of these URLs from being passed on and correctly processed by ColdFusion. The solution is to add the following two rules
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“Emergent Collective One” – All the Little Pieces… Have you heard about Emergent Collective One? The free community compilation CD release full of music composed and produced by developers? We’ll dig into the nitty-gritty of conceiving, promoting, collecting, preparing, and distributing this community showcase piece. Learn how Adobe tools such as Flash Professional CS5, Photoshop
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Sunday, October 24 – Education Summit at MAX – Los Angeles Convention Center If you are involved in education and will be attending Adobe MAX this year, I highly encourage you to check out the full education rundown and especially the preconference Education Summit! I’ll be speaking on OSMF! Open Source Media Framework for Education
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I’ll be presenting the following Connect session along with Megan Stewart from Adobe as a follow-up to our recent article in University Business: University of Denver Creates New System for Rich Media Course Libraries Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:00 AM PT Learn about CourseMedia™, a digital application that not only replaces the traditional slide projector,
Going to be at MAX? Stop by and say ‘Hello’! I’ll be showing examples of cool things you can do with Adobe AIR which go beyond the traditional desktop! I’ll also be presenting at the preconference education summit and at the FITC unconference – all during Adobe MAX 2010! Progressing beyond the Desktop at Universities
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Having just completed the master for the upcoming An Early Morning Letter, Displaced release; 6Threads, I’d like to make a formal announcement here along with some words about this collection of work. Track listing: To Lead You Down Strangling Strangers Atrophy (still) So Crushed Alice If Only 6Threads is the first EP release from An
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Firstly, congratulations on finally being somewhat fair to developers. Seriously- I commend you guy and girls at Apple for making this change (even though the DOJ and EU investigatory committees probably had something to do with it). So… what now? I imagine a bunch of Adobeans are huddled about right now trying to figure out
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Presentation at the Adobe Education Leader Institute, San Jose, CA. 11:15am.-12:05pm. Wednesday July 28. 2010 Joseph will demonstrate how the University of Denver is leveraging the Flash Platform across the campus community to allow collaboration between students, faculty, and staff in a number of our web applications. Connectivity to Facebook and Twitter services will be
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In working on a small utility application (Adobe AIR) this week, I came across a pretty major memory leak in the beta Open Source Media Framework based Spark components in Flex 4.1 final. The utility I am building grabs over 10,000 video clip records from our media repository and then systematically goes through and renders
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