The Incubator is a new place on Adobe Labs for us to share with developers features that are under development or under consideration for inclusion in future versions of the runtimes*. For developers and companies who are interested in testing cutting-edge capabilities of runtimes, the Incubator program allows them to contribute to the future of […]
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Both of my video tutorials on customizing STrobe Media Playback are now available over at ActiveTuts+. If you are interested in doing simple skinning of SMP or want to recompile a customized version; I’ve got you covered! UPDATE: Also be sure to check out Tom Green‘s overview over at WebdesignTuts+! Getting Started with Strobe Media
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After reading Seb Lee-Delisle‘s article “HTML5 vs Flash – the aftermath“, I have been collecting some thoughts around what it means to be a Flash developer in relation to other languages and platforms. Note that I do not believe the article is in any way antagonistic toward Flash as a platform or Flash developers… it
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Over on the Google Analytics weblog, they’ve posted about a new (official) AS3 library for GA! Apparently, the library is pretty robust, featuring; Metrics, Dimensions, Filters, Sequenced Pagination, and Data Views. I’ve dealt with Google Analytics and Flash in the past using the Google Analytics Tracking For Adobe Flash ActionScript 3 API which, from my
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About a month ago, a representative from Packt Publishing contacted me to gauge my interest in writing a book on the Adobe Flash Platform and Android operating system. After speaking with her and nailing things down with the assistance of Acquisition Editor Wilson D’souza, a contract was put together and I’m now well into writing
Something New – I’m Writing a Book! Read More »
Upon the solid groundwork laid by the Flash Player 10.1 release, Adobe continues to innovate by adding some incredible new features to the runtime in a beta of Flash Player 10.2. There are two, in particular, that I will highlight: Native Custom Mouse Cursors Do you know how long I’ve waited for the ability to
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If so, here is a list of resources and offers currently going on! Overview information: Tablet OS Application Development Check out the webcast series and other developer resources: BlackBerry Tablet OS Development Resources Develop an app, get a FREE PlayBook!: BlackBerry PlayBook Developer Promotion Information The PlayBook looks to be a very cool device –
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An article I had written on using a variety of ActionScript and Alchemy-based audio encoding libraries in Flash Player has been published over at CodeBass. Check it out and even play with the demo set from within your web browser. Full source code and links to referenced AS3 libraries is also available. Nice to finally
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Check out the collection of commentary over at ActiveTuts+ from industry experts and community leaders over the manufactured “HTML vs. Flash” debate. Some really good points are made, all around. It’s also good to see that while these statements were gathered as individual contributions, they mostly tend to gel into a unified narrative. I am
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Seems like whenever Adobe is showing off Flash or AIR on mobile, it’s nearly always a game being shown! I have nothing against games but there is a lot of impressive stuff out there that has nothing to do with gaming. As an example of this, I contribute the following video; within which I demonstrate
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We all know that ColdFusion allows Flash Remoting (AMF) communication to occur via two separate URL strings: http://my.site.com/flex2gateway http://my.site.com/flashservices/gateway I recently came across the problem where the URL Rewrite rules in IIS7 were blocking both of these URLs from being passed on and correctly processed by ColdFusion. The solution is to add the following two rules
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Firstly, congratulations on finally being somewhat fair to developers. Seriously- I commend you guy and girls at Apple for making this change (even though the DOJ and EU investigatory committees probably had something to do with it). So… what now? I imagine a bunch of Adobeans are huddled about right now trying to figure out
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