Adobe Camps This Month
After travelling the world on the CS5 Evolution Tour we’re finally bringing it to the states! Myself, Greg Rewis, Jason Levine and Rufus Deuchler will be speaking at various “Adobe Camps” across the USA.  If you live in or near any … Continue reading →
At Adobe Developer Tech Day In Shanghai
I just presented the first segment of the opening keynote at Adobe Developer Tech Day in Shanghai, China. Fellow evangelist Enrique Duvos is now on the stage wowing the audience with Stage 3D demos. This is a very technical audience, almost a…
Video – discussing the importance of geo and mobile
This is an interview I did last year about the importance of geo-tagged data and mobile devices. It is interesting to look at these later to see how the predictions stack up against reality. In this case, it was particularly accurate. Enjoy!Original…
More great blogging about Adobe from Bangalore
After spending a week in Bangalore India, we capped off the Adobe Flash Platform Summit with a great Bloggers Social night at the Biere Club. Maybe is was the lure of a micro-brew or dangling evangelists out to be asked any question (seriously – …
Defining custom URL schemes for your AIR mobile applications
If you’ve ever wondered if you can register your own URL schemes for your AIR mobile applications running on iOS or Android platforms the answer is yes! Actually it is very simple and you can do it by adding few extra lines in the *-app.xml document. Once you do your application can be invoked directly [...]
My "Don’t try this at home" experiment with jQuery UI
It’s been a little while since I’ve played with jQuery UI. I kinda got infatuated with jQuery Mobile and forgot everything else. But it’s my love of jQuery Mobile that drove me to try a little experiment. If you’ve read any of the docs o…
Slides: Top AIR APIs to bring your mobile apps to life
I have uploaded one of my presentations (Top AIR APIs to bring your mobile applications to life!) from this year’s Adobe Flash Platform Summit on Slide Share. Do find the same below: -
Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2011 Summary
I am writing this as we are wrapping Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2011 in Bangalore last week! Awesome 3 day summit it was. We had 30 sessions during the conference and 6 workshops on the last day and some attractions at the event venue that made our community happy. I just want to thank all [...]
Adobe Edge Preview On Labs
Adobe Edge is a new web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. We first debuted Edge at MAX 2010, and we’ve now released Preview 1 …
Query of Query bug involving numbers
Thanks for this find comes to me from Victor Yelizarov. He reported to me an odd issue with sorting and query of queries. Consider the following code sample:
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Compiling Flash Builder Projects for iOS
Despite our massive messaging effort, many people are not aware that they can use our tools to develop applications for iOS devices. Flash Builder 4.5.1 works so well for this that even I have built a few.Holly Schinsky has written up an awesome …
Busy, Busy, Busy
If you follow me on Twitter then you already know that last week I was disconnecting in a log cabin in Montana without a computer. That’s the Crazy Peak cabin we stayed in on the left. I highly recommend it if you want to get away for a while. Although it was a great break, [...]
Making ColdFusion/Flash Remoting and WordPress Play Nice on IIS
OK, this post isn’t completely about Flash, Flex, or Mobile, but it is about ColdFusion, so I guess it’s still applicable… I recently made a few changes my WordPress blog (specifically adding “pretty” permalinks for posts). In order for this to work properly, you have to add rewrite rules in your web.config so that [...]
Adobe Releases Beta of Edge HTML5 Tool
Exciting news this morning! I awoke to see that Adobe has released a beta version of EDGE, the HTML5 motion and interaction Design tool on Adobe Labs, as well as theexpressiveweb.com/, an HTML5 showcase site. EDGE will allow you to create Flash-like timeline animations purely using standards-compliant HTML. You can see a preview form the examples [...]
Welcome to Adobe Edge
This morning, Adobe released a preview of Adobe Edge, the first Adobe tool dedicated to HTML5 and CSS3 animations. As the web standards are evolving to enable interactive animations, Adobe Edge lets you choreograph graphical assets on the screen. Motion designers who are used to After Effects or Flash Pro can create advanced animations in few seconds [...]
How I got started in ColdFusion
A week or so ago Steve Bryant suggested that August 1st be a day for us in the community to share how we got started in ColdFusion. I thought this was a really cool idea and I hope everyone takes the chance to participate. If any of my r…
Fantastic new book out by Paul Trani et al
My friend Paul Trani has recently cowritten a new book called Pro Android Flash. In fact, not only do I know the authors (Stephen Chin, Dean Iverson, Oswald Campesato, and Paul Trani) but I helped Oswald with several technical bits while he was writing…
A Great Article on Adobe
I saw this recent article about Adobe and wanted to share it. This is well worth a read. Deep Sherchan has written a brilliant perspective on the huge paradigm shift we are experiencing in IT. A small excerpt:”You can call it post-PC …
Creating Custom Mute/Unmute Audio Button using Advanced Actions and Variables
Scenario: Many times having a custom button to mute or unmute the sound being played helps a lot. In this post we will discuss how to do that step-by-step. BTW, there is mute/unmute audio button is available in the Playbar as well. This one is to have …
RIAForge update, and a reminder about ColdFusion debugging
So earlier today a few peeps on Twitter pointed out that a particular project page was running very slowly. I tried to replicate this but wasn’t able to consistently. Then – all of a sudden – I could – and I couldn’t understand why. You …
