I’m still doing loads of ActionScript work in both my regular job and in side projects – so thought I might start posting some tiny, useful snippets of AS3 here as I encounter them. This is, I suppose, both for my own archive and for anyone out in the community that cares to pick up […]
AS3 Quickie: Check if a variable is Numeric Read More »
Remember back in September of 2011 when Microsoft declared that Flash Player and other “plugins” would be barred from Metro Internet Explorer? It seems as though that really just isn’t going to happen. “Flash Player release and debug players will be available and supported for Windows 8 Desktop and Metro style experiences on both x86/64
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Here you can find the slides and recording for my talk “What’s New in Flash Player 11.2 and Adobe AIR 3.2” – given on May 10th 2012 for the Hawaii Flash User Group. FLASH LIVES! What’s New in Flash Player 11.2 and Adobe AIR 3.2 View more presentations from Joseph Labrecque The release of Flash
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I am quite fortunate to live in Denver, Colorado. Why? Because my city was on the list of stops for the North American Flash Community Tour which is presently ongoing. For the Denver stop; both Mike Chambers and Lee Brimelow provided us with a good, honest, down-to-earth discussion of recent changed in the Flash platform, the
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Adobe has released both Flash Player 11.2 + AIR 3.2 this evening and have made a number of major announcements around the platform which you may read below: Game on: The new Adobe AIR 3.2 + Flash Player 11.2 http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/03/gameon.html Adobe Introduces Premium Features for Gaming with Flash Player 11.2; Announces Collaboration with Unity Technologies
Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2 RELEASED Read More »
I wasn’t actually going to write anything about the recently published Flash runtimes (Flash Player, AIR) whitepaper simply because it’s big enough news… and I really didn’t have anything to contribute. The whitepaper itself is a detailed look into the next 2 years of the evolution of the runtimes layed out for everyone to see.
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With Adobe announcing the abandonment of all mobile Flash Player efforts, developers who formerly specialized in this platform are branching out a bit more and taking up both new and old technologies in exploration of other opportunities. This article is not meant to be comprehensive rundown in any way. I’m simply working through a number
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ActionScript is an object-oriented programming language that has a wide reach on the web, the desktop, mobile devices, and beyond. If you want to be able to hit many targets with one code base, ActionScript is a great way to do so; it also lets you build a variety of application types, from 2D and
Getting Started with ActionScript Read More »
On the 6th of December, I participated in the “Future of Flash” panel along with Kevin Hoyt, Jun Heider, and Ryan Bell with John Wilker moderating. The event was put on by the Rocky Mountain Adobe User Group (RMAUG) and 360|Flex and was hosted by Uncubed in Denver, Colorado. Unfortunately, the recording was problematic and
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O’Reilly has published a set of books that I was able to get together over the past few months, leading up to the new Flash Platform runtime releases in October: “What’s New in Flash Player 11” and “What’s New in Adobe AIR 3“. These books are companion pieces as there is obvious overlap between what
New Books: What’s New in Flash Player 11 + What’s New in Adobe AIR 3 Read More »
Before this evening, this post was going to read as another grueling defense of Flash technologies… Here’s an except from my earlier draft: I have always used Flash when appropriate, to do things which were either impossible with HTML or at least would be a major pain. I’ve developed many applications which use Flash technology
Some Clarity around Flash Platform Changes Read More »
It’s been an uphill battle since “Thoughts on Flash” and this year things were finally leveling off. I was getting buy-in from important pockets of my organization and now Adobe’s message has utterly annihilated all the work I’ve done putting mobile Flash in a positive light. I’m not wasting any more time convincing people if
Mobile Flash Player: RIP Read More »