Absolutely wonderful that Google has finally released an AS3 version of their chromeless player for use in Flex/AS3 projects. No more weird proxy hacks!!! I’ve thrown together a quick example and have posted the code below. Really simple stuff to set up and use. Google seems to be more and more friendly to the Flash […]
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I gave my presentation at 3:30 on Monday in the FITC unconference room at Adobe MAX. It was well attended and everything went well, for the most part. I did not have a good wireless connection and couldn’t run a live demo- but had screenshots to cover me in such a case. Thanks to FITC
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Just a quick note that I probably won’t get to posting materials from my session until after MAX is over. Just too much going on. The session went really well- streamed live over http://fitc.influxis.com/ and recorded locally, as well. I’ll have my slides and a recording up soon.
The archived presentations from the recent Adobe Education Seminar Series are now available for viewing. Join Adobe in this three-part seminar series to learn how you can create and stream engaging video on the web. Session 1: Video Use Cases in Higher Education: Expand your audience through video Discover new and exciting ways to increase
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We all know that to have Javascript menus and such overlay embedded Flash content, that we need to set the WMODE parameter of our embed code to “opaque” or “transparent”. This is usually pretty simple if you are generating the embed code yourself through SWFObject, or even simply through HTML. Here’s the thing… what if
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Planning on attending Adobe MAX this year? Apart from the main event tracks, I highly encourage everyone to check out some of the sessions going on at the FITC Unconference. There is an amazing line-up of stellar speakers this year. Check out some of the session descriptions and I think you’ll agree that they are
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I actually forgot to apply the “smoothing” property to a flash.display.Bitmap display object being scaled inside Flash Player. Just look at the difference such an oversight made! Since I was using a flash.display.Loader display object to load the image up, and Loader has no smoothing property, I totally spaced on this and it’s been out
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Shudderflowers official release date is set for September 22nd, 2009. It may or may not be available to purchase from various retailers at that time, but here are a few you can try, after the date has passed: iTunes, CD Baby, Amazon, and eventually Verizon, Zune, Napster, and the rest… An Early Morning Letter, Displaced:
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Every once in awhile, I receive postcards and such from my undergraduate institution, Worcester State College. I hold a BA in Communications Media from this school and have no complaints about the degree or the classes I took while a student there. I do, however, die a little inside each time I see one of
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In anticipation of Shudderflowers, An Early Morning Letter, Displaced now presents the third in a series of new tracks on MySpace Music: I Am Consumed falls at track #2 on the new release and represents somewhat of a departure in style. I Am Consumed this fear consumes me memories of long forgotten corpses their silver
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At the Adobe Education Leader Summer Institute this past July, I gave a presentation entitled Leveraging the Flash Platform to Deliver Dynamic Media Across Campus which dealt with what the University of Denver is working on in regard to the Flash Platform, focusing upon our work with CourseMedia™. I received a good deal of positive
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This involves the more unorthodox and experimental part of my demonstration… Mess with Midge and feed my data logs!
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