Software

Running Phaser as a Chrome Application

When I was testing out different mobile platforms for my new Lynda.com course, HTML5 Game Development with Phaser, I wanted to also explore how everything runs in both desktop and mobile browsers. Just pulling something up in Chrome for Android (for instance) works wonderfully… but you have to deal with browser chrome. I found a …

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Parfait?

This… is very cool. Adobe has a beta project – accessible via web browser – which can introspect PSD files, extract contents, generate CSS… fonts… colors… gradients… pretty damn cool. Here’s a video of the thing in action: Nice. Check it out at https://projectparfait.adobe.com/

Flash Professional CC – Toolkit for Dart

With Flash Professional CS6, Adobe released an extension called “Toolkit for CreateJS” which allowed Flash Professional content to be exported for use in the HTML5 canvas element via CreateJS libraries. With Flash Professional CC – the toolkit is actually integrated into the core product. Why stop at CreateJS? Along with Flash Professional CC – Adobe …

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Creative Cloud : Massive Update

As announced at Adobe MAX 2013 – the new suite of creative tools from Adobe has now gone live. The distribution method is quite different from past years of course – since the new CC apps are only available through Creative Cloud. Your favorite tools are about to get even better. Introducing Creative Cloud™ desktop …

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Absinthe Dilution Faerie 2.0

Absinthe Dilution Faerie version 2.0 is now available for free via Google Play! “Absinthe Dilution Faerie” is a small application which calculates how much water one should temper a dose of absinthe with in accordance with the ABV percentage as laid out by Michael Meyers of The Wormwood Society. So what’s new in this version? …

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Absinthe Dilution Faerie

“Absinthe Dilution Faerie” is a small application which calculates how much water one should temper a dose of absinthe with in accordance with the ABV percentage as laid out by Michael Meyers of The Wormwood Society. The application also has the support of The Wormwood Society! If you are at all interested in absinthe or …

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Create the Web: A Look Back

I was fortunate to be able to attend the Create the Web event that Adobe put on in San Francisco early last week. During this one day event, Adobe basically revealed their plans for tooling and services around web standards with a series of announcements, walkthroughs, and deep dives. As someone who is heavily invested in …

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About Brackets

Last week, in my post about the open source Adobe Automated UI Tester for Adobe ActionScript, I mentioned another project called Brackets. Today, I’m going to share some thoughts around this new “open source code editor for the web”. One of the things I find really intriguing about Brackets is that the editor is built …

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