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Video Use Cases in Higher Education: Expand your audience through video

April 2, 2010

Discover new and exciting ways to increase the exposure, enrollment, and fundraising potential of your university through the use of video on your university’s website. From distance learning, to the broadcast of live athletic events and artistic performances, to campus tours and new student orientation, all of this and more can be brought to life […]

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Leveraging the Flash Platform to Deliver Dynamic Media Across Campus

April 2, 2010

Presentation given at the Adobe Education Leader Summer Institute 2009 at Adobe HQ San Jose, CA. Adobe Education Leader Institute 2009 San Jose, California July 22nd 2009 This presentation will focus on the DU CourseMedia™ application built by the University of Denver Center for Teaching and Learning and examine the many problems solved with such

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Quick Tip: Changing Spark DragScroll Parameters

April 1, 2010

Say you have a Spark List in your application with a TileLayout and drag options toggled on: But when you drag item up the list, depending upon your itemRenderer, it may take forever for the list to scroll… and the areas which trigger scroll up and down the list view are tiny in comparison. You

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My work with Adobe AIR 2.0 NativeProcess gets a mention on RIA Radio!

March 31, 2010

RIA Radio is a weekly podcast presented by InsideRIA as an open discussion with guests from the community, covering upcoming news and current best practices. In Episode 10, Antonio Holguin discusses agency life, application development workflow, and mobile application design and development. Around 38 minutes in, he mentions the work I’ve been doing with the

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Strange ActionScript dispatchEvent / addEventListener Gotcha

March 27, 2010

I came across a strange situation over the weekend where a custom event being broadcast through dispatchEvent() was not being caught by the registered listener object. To make things even more bizarre, hasEventListener() definitely showed the event as registered, and I could even trace the type out through willTrigger(). Relevant example code is below: private

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Custom Event Reporting from Flash to Google Analytics

March 24, 2010

Back at Adobe MAX 2009 in Los Angeles, I did a 30 minute presentation for FITC. This is a composite video from a screen recording I did on my presenter laptop merged with the live stream hosted by Influxis. I’ve been reformatting a lot of the presentations and webinars I’ve done over the past year

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Adobe Creative Suite 5 Global Online Launch Event

March 24, 2010

Be among the first to see Adobe® Creative Suite® 5. Join the global online launch event on April 12. With the right tools, your creative horizon changes. A tree is still timber, but suddenly in a whole new way. Old ideas germinate again, and new ideas branch into unexpected opportunities. Welcome to Adobe® Creative Suite®

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“DropFolders”: AIR 2.0 NativeProcess w/ HandBrake

March 19, 2010

DropFolders is an upcoming AIR 2.0 Windows-only (for now) application which allows a user to set up multiple presets consisting of watch folders, destination folders, and specific arguments for use in HandBrake. The app then polls the watch folders for new files, builds an internal processing queue, hands each file off to the embedded HandBrake

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Adobe Has a New “Design and Web” Blog!

March 12, 2010

Great new resource from Adobe showing off some future products, services, and workflows that Creative Suite engineers are working on: Design and Web News and views from Paul and Lea. Paul Gubbay is Sr. Director Engineering and Lea Hickman is Sr. Director Product Management for the Creative Suite Design and Web Tools, Suites and Services.

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Video: AIR 2.0 NativeProcess Example

March 10, 2010

I’ve been looking for an opportunity to take advantage of the new flash.desktop.NativeProcess class within AIR 2.0 and was fortunate enough to have a quick project fall into my lap early this week that would serve as the perfect testing ground. If you aren’t familiar with NativeProcess, it basically gives you the ability to interact

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Session Recordings from Flash Gaming Summit

March 9, 2010

If you’re like me and couldn’t make it to the Flash Gaming Summit, you’ll definitely want to check out these Connect recordings: Session Recordings from Flash Gaming Summit I’d also recommend checking out the Flash Platform Game Technology Center on DevNet.

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News from Mobile World Congress 2010

February 19, 2010

There is a lot of exciting news for the Flash Platform community coming out of Barcelona, Spain at the Mobile World Congress. Firstly, Adobe has announced that Flash Player 10.1 is coming for almost all mobile operating systems including Android, the BlackBerry® platform, Symbian® OS, Palm® webOS and Windows Mobile®. Flash Player 10.1 is the

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