Just a quick note that things may be pretty distant for the next few months. I’m on parental leave until mid-July and will have my hands tied up in baby business until then. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get some other things done as well. On the list right now: Get up to speed with […]
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I mentioned before that while most people in the AIR for Android prerelease program are porting their iPhone applications over from Packager for iPhone projects to AIR for Android, I’ve been working more or less from scratch on my projects. Last week, I published a short video demonstrating an educational application called “StudyShuffler”. While it
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UPDATE: You can find the latest information about the project here along with an FAQ and contributor list. One of the aspects I greatly admire about the communities I interface with (primarily Flash developers, but digital tech people of all stripes) is that there is such a diverse amount of talent, interest, and drive among
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Something is happening… a shift in thinking. A movement to embrace the best technologies available to provide developers with the most compelling platforms, and users with the most pleasant of experiences. A shift away from single gatekeeper systems and toward the wide open planes of freedom and choice. I’m thankful, and grateful, to be a
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One of the many features of the University of Denver’s CourseMedia™ Course Media Management System is a Flash based module that allows students to study images along with metadata within a “matching game” type interface. Expanding upon and simplifying this idea for mobile, I’ve written the initial version of StudyShuffler using AIR for Android. StudyShuffler
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When I was first learning ActionScript 3.0 a few years back, the first thing I did was create a demo app called “Sketcher” which was a pure AS3 sketchpad written using FlashDevelop with the beta Flex 2 SDK. So when I needed a good starting project to work with AIR for Android, I decided to
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So I’m writing this post a number of days before I’ll have NDA clearance to publish anything regarding Android for AIR. Just want to record my first impressions here! Just got my first app running on my Motorola Droid and am so totally psyched about this! It’s actually unbelievably simple to author and package for
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I’ll be presenting on “Using Collaborative Media Services with Flash in University Applications” at the Adobe Summer Institute [Rich Internet Applications in Education Track] this July! For those who do not know, the Adobe Summer Institute is an annual gathering of Adobe Education Leaders for a small, focused, 5-day conference hosted by Adobe at their
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I haven’t really talked about this much; but in January, I was awarded an “Adobe Education Leader Impact Award” by Adobe Systems, Inc. and the great group of people who work on Adobe’s education team. Now that I’ve received the (quite handsome!) plaque, I want to make mention of it here in a spirit of
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Well, it’s April 12th 2010 and the launch event has concluded; which mean I’m no longer under embargo regarding the Adobe Creative Suite 5 products! I’ve been involved in various pre-release programs over the past release cycle ranging from the collective Flash Platform development tools to design apps like Photoshop and Illustrator… even some exciting
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At this point we’ve all seen the unfortunately worded, revised iPhone Developer Program License Agreement banning Flash, Java, Mono (and really any non-Apple-tooled) apps: 3.3.1 Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++,
Steve Jobs and Apple: Insane? Or Just Evil? Read More »
In this final session, you will learn how to implement a video solution on your campus, using the tools and technologies previously presented in this series. Nick, John, and Joseph will go deeper into the technology behind a complete video solution, steps for implementation and decisions to be made in your implementation, all the way