I’ll be at Adobe’s San Jose headquarters this week for the Adobe Education Leader Institute – and thought this will be a great time to run a little contest in promotion of my book! I’ll be giving away a couple copies of the eBook version through Packt. The eBook version is great; I’ve been using […]
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Here are my slides from today’s D2WC session: “Adapting Expectations to Fit a Mobile Workflow“. What a great conference it has been so far! Thanks to everyone who attended my session! Adapting Expectations to Fit a Mobile Workflow View more presentations from Joseph Labrecque
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The assets for my 5 minute quick tip talk for the 2011 Adobe Education Leader Institute are located here. This is the completed example (Flash Professional CS5.5): [download AEL2011_FlashContextMenu] Here is an image preview: Here is the SWF: [SWF]https://inflagrantedelicto.memoryspiral.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/contextmenu.swf, 350, 300[/SWF] And here be the code bits! package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.ui.ContextMenu; import flash.ui.ContextMenuItem;
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I’m thrilled to announce that my Flash Development for Android Cookbook is now available to purchase in print and digital formats! The book contains 372 pages of useful information and solid recipes for developing killer Android applications using Flash Platform technology. The Flash Development for Android Cookbook enables Flash developers to branch out into Android
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I’m happy to announce that I’ve undertaken a new authoring project for Adobe Press along with co-author Peter Elst and video2brain! The project is titled Mobile Development with Flash Professional CS5.5 and Flash Builder 4.5 : Learn by Video and is available for preorder on the Adobe Press website and at Amazon.com. At this point,
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The University of Denver held a TEDx event today. We fed an RTMP signal through a VBrick unit to an internal Flash Media Server for authentication to be distributed over CDN and exposed to viewers through the Open Source Media Framework Strobe Media Playback. I was curious how the feed would look over a variety of devices.
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A quick recording which demonstrates how to use a splash screen within your AIR for Android applications built with Flash Builder and the Flex 4.5 SDK!
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Demo of mobile Flex 4.5 using Flash Builder 4.5.
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Honest to God I hate trudging this up every once in a while, but even though Steve Jobs “Thoughts on Flash” is nearly a year old… somehow people are just catching onto it now. I need a good repository of links that do a solid job of pointing out inaccuracies and providing clarity to the
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I saw this poorly researched atrocity when it was first published the other day and immediately wrote CNN asking that they correct the numerous factual errors in the article. I have yet to hear back. Unfortunately, tech reporters can get away with all sorts of lies and inaccuracies without doing any actual journalism. Honestly, reporters;
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I have taken on a new authoring role as an ActiveTuts+ Correspondent writing a weekly industry news article focused on the Flash Platform. Having done about 10 video tutorials for them in the past and after covering Adobe MAX 2010 in Los Angeles, I believe the editors at ActiveTuts+ and I have a good relationship
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I’m duplicating my comments from the post “Flash Rules” over at QuirkeyBlog here, as I think they are a pretty good summary of my thoughts on Flash and “HTML5” at the present time. Aaron makes some great points, and is really fair with his assessment of the current situation. most of the comments are pretty
“Flash Rules”? <= Yeah, it's pretty nice to work with :) Read More »