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 …
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 …
I’ve been busy at D2W this year! Last night, I was able to do show off some of the cool new features in Flash Professional CS6 and Edge preview 6 at the Adobe CS6 Launch Party here in Kansas City. This morning, I delivered a session dedicated to similarities and differences around Flash Professional and …
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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Now that Adobe Creative Suite CS6 has been released, here is a little round-up of content from myself and others that you can use to get started with Flash Professional CS6! AdobeTV First, check out the great content over at AdobeTV. There are videos from Adobe peeps like Paul Trani and Tom Barclay – and …
Happy to announce that in light of the Adobe Creative Suite 6 announce; my newest video course with video2brain has now been published! Adobe Flash Professional CS6: New Features Workshop Learn What’s New and How It Affects You In this course, Flash authority Joseph Labrecque looks at the new features available in Flash Professional CS6 …
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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 …
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 …
I recently acquired and was able to read over the Flash iOS Apps Cookbook by Christopher Caleb. The book is available from Packt in both print and digital formats. I was interested in reading this particular book since I authored the comparable Android-focused volume; Flash Development for Android Cookbook. As someone who has never developed …
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. …
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 …
Discussing Apache Flex Last week, I took part in a recording of The Flex Show that centered around Apache Flex and the state of Flash in 2012. I thought it was a pretty interesting discussion – a lot of good points were brought up and you can listen to the entire recording from the show …