Joseph Labrecque

Help Improve Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0*

Okay- Adobe has a great chance to show the world how solid Flash Player and AIR engineering can be. Like any development or engineering team, they have limited resources and need help from the outside world to make these the best releases ever. Tired of “buggy” Flash and “lazy” engineers ruining your browsing experience?** Here […]

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Just To Put Things In Perspective…

Ever since Apple announced their new iPad, I’ve been reading a whole lot about how HTML5 will replace (I believe “kill” is the preferred term) Flash. Most arguments state that the emerging HTML5 spec includes such things as <canvas> and <video> which effectively renders the need for Flash a thing of the past… seriously? I

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Ghetto Greenscreen

I built a greenscreen for chroma keying video/photos in my studio for about 5 dollars. Grabbed about six sheets of neon-green poster board from a local store and used some other bits I had lying around; easel, cardboard, non-reflective tape, staple gun, duct tape… You can see the result below! Admittedly ghetto… but for my

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Strangling Strangers [DEMO SS001]

After the release of Shudderflowers by An Early Morning Letter, Displaced last Autumn, I decided to explore some of the harsher elements of that album within my other aural project, Strangling Strangers. Strangling Strangers is a project that I’ve tinkered with for years after coming up with alternate material at the turn of the century

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A Word About Bread

I haven’t done a lot of Flash development this weekend. Mostly I’ve been baking bread. I love good breads, so when a co-worker of mine introduced me to the No-Knead Bread method developed by Jim Lahey… I developed a quick fanaticism over it. I’ve made three loafs of bread in the past few days. Awesome

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Skinning a Spark Button in Flex 4

The more I work with Flex 4, the more I understand why certain choices were made regarding the new component architecture, especially in regard to skinning. I stumbled, at first, as the skinning model is quite different and can appear much more cumbersome at first glance. Like most Flex devs, I was used to just

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Flash Player 10.1 Demo on Android 2.1

Today, Google hosted an “Android Press Gathering” where they revealed the detailed of the Google “Nexus One” phone. Shortly thereafter, Adobe posted the following video demonstration of Flash Player 10.1 running on the forthcoming Android 2.1 (coming soon for Nexus One, Droid, so forth): Looks like it’s running very nicely on the device! I’ve been

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2009 Personal Retrospective

As per my annual habit, I’m providing a rundown of significant events and reflections for the past year, organized by category. Like always, this is more of a log for my own reflections and milestones, but is publicly available as I believe it a a good representation of my work and achievements for the year.

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