Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to speak to a media distribution vendor who posed the question “Does your University have a mobile strategy?” Absolutely we do- at least my group of developers does. We’ve had the same strategy for a number of years now and that strategy is to hold and observe. This […]
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Following the AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 betas last month, comes updates for the current platform runtimes in the form of AIR 1.5.3 and Flash Player 10.0.42. Most important to my work is the Publisher ID changes in AIR. I’ve have the need to migrate certificates before, so have paid close attention to the
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To continue the donation incentives began by Elad Elrom and continued by Brian Connatser, I’m also adding an incentive for those who contribute to the 2010 RIA Beard Off for Toys for Tots. Those who contribute donations of any amount in my name (@JosephLabrecque) will be entered into a random drawing to receive a copy
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It’s really interesting to me how creative impulses can arrive in little, concentrated spurts. This is how ideas usually manifest themselves to me, and when they do, I like to grab ahold and just go with it. The past few days I was feeling kinda dry, creatively. Happens every once in awhile and to be
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Just like the sign says… VidLoop 1.4.18 is out on Adobe AIR Marketplace. It’s been a year since I released the initial version (built over last Thanksgiving holiday) and have been working on some revisions in the past few weeks with the intention of getting this new version out as an anniversary marking. Looks like
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I’m participating in the 2010 RIA Beard Off for Toys for Tots, a charity event for members of the RIA community to grow beards and raise money for Marine Toys for Tots Foundation. Donation amounts of $10 to $50 are accepted and we are actually almost half way to the goal of $2000. Would be
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Screw Internet Explorer! This is one of the many reasons I prefer to avoid having a browser render anything at all for me. Can’t trust it! Better to just take care of these things before it even hits the browser: Java JSP example String embedCode1 = item.getEmbedCode(); String expression1 = “>
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The Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 Public betas are now available via Adobe Labs: Flash Player 10.1 AIR 2.0 These are the first fruits to come out of the Open Screen Project – and hopefully much more good will follow as FP 10.1 for mobile devices will begin shipping later this year into next
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Last month, I participated in a phone interview with the education team at Adobe to talk about how the University of Denver is using Flash Media Server to stream both live and on-demand content across campus and out into the world. The resulting article was recently published on the Adobe Developer Connection website. Topics covered
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Every once in a while, Flash Builder loses its mind when I attempt to debug a project and tells me that I don’t have a debug version of Flash Player on my machine. I do… FB is just crazy. Right. Sometimes it’s looking at the player running in the browser, in which case I just
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I’d encourage anyone going to Educause in Denver to stop by the Adobe Booth (#909) for a theater presentation by myself and John Schuman. Streaming Video for Education Wednesday, November 4 12:45pm–1:15pm In this session, you will learn the inner workings of a real-world video solution for higher education based on Adobe Flash technology. Join
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Based on comments received in my previous article I’ve decided to also produce an example using Flash Professional CS4. The approach is different in some ways, but very similar in others. View the Example: [SWF]https://inflagrantedelicto.memoryspiral.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/YouTubeAS3_CS4.swf, 480, 500[/SWF] References: The ActionScript 3 YouTube Chromeless Player is Now Live YouTube ActionScript 3.0 Player API Reference Download the
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