Andy Trice Joining The Team
The newest Adobe evangelist is Andy Trice who made the announcement on his blog today. Welcome aboard Andy, great to have you on the team!
Adding Android Development Tools (ADT) to Flash Builder 4.5.1
I am looking at doing some Android development to extend my AIR applications (AIR Native Extension). There is not a lot of public information on AIR Native Extensions but you can check out some information here. For those that really want to start playing with it right now you can apply for the private prerelease [...]
ColdFusion Builder 2 Hot Fix Available
ColdFusion Builder 2 Hot Fix 1 has been released to fix three reported bugs.
Adobe Acquires EchoSign
Two weeks ago I moved from one house to another. In the process of transferring my Time Warner Business Class internet service, I was instructed to electronically sign the new agreement using EchoSign’s technology. It was a very simple and smooth process. And now today, this very cool technology is part of the Adobe family. [...]
Joining Adobe!
I’m pleased to announce that as of next week (July 26th) I will be joining Adobe as a Technical Evangelist, with an emphasis on enterprise mobile applications! Many of you know that I’ve been passionate about the Adobe ecosystem for quite a few years… I became really involved late in the Macromedia days, and have [...]
Webinar On AIR And Sony Tablet Opportunities
Last week I mentioned the Adobe AIR App Challenge sponsored by Sony. To help you get started, and to learn more about using AIR to build apps for the upcoming Sony tablet devices, we’re hosting two webinars later this week. Details online, an…
Using Adobe AIR to reach multiple devices: Conqu
About three or four months ago I wrote a blogpost about Conqu – an AIR application for managing tasks. Since then, Conqu has been one of the best demos I have at hand when talking about mobile development with the Flash Platform. Most people couldn’t believe that Conqu was built using Adobe AIR and Flex.
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New Domain acquired – iNoel.in
I just acquired a new domain, iNoel.in. Found my existing domain, ImmanuelNoel.com, to be too long to be key’d in to the address bar I plan to use iNoel.in as, An alternate URL for my website / blog. The new (other) URL for my blog is, Blog.iNoel.in A URL shortening service for my own needs. Here are a few short URLs, [...]
My 10 Tips When Developing For Multiple Devices
You may have seen my recent post about porting the Flixel based demo game ‘Mode’ to various devices. (If not I suggest you check it out as it has some photos of Mode running on a selection of different platforms). One of the things that became apparent was that even though I saved a massive [...]
Android App Development with Java Essential Training
My new title with Lynda.com has just gone live on the Online Training Library. This one was quite a departure for me as I was teaching Java development for the first time. I took on this challenge in an attempt to get out of my comfort zone. Mission accomplished. Below is the official description of [...]
Running Servlets On ColdFusion
ColdFusion Technical Support Engineer Vikas Chandran explains how to run Java servlets on ColdFusion.
Blog Updated!
Well, hello again everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve been active on this blog (tricedesigns.com). This is the first post at this location in nearly 2 years. As I was writing for insideria.com this blog began to suffer. If you’re wondering where the old content has gone, I’ve decided to take it down. All [...]
Interview with Jared Kroff about Tweet Hunt
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Tweet Hunt is one of the best AIR apps I have seen come out on the iPad. It’s a really fun concept with great execution and the design and performance are absolutely amazing. I sent Jared a set of questions to find out more about how he put [...]
The making of a beautiful Photoshop composition
The making of a portrait by Marcio Negherbon from Meca Image Engineering (Brazil). Incredible use of 3D and Photoshop compositing.
Ponycorn Adventure Featured on the iOS App Store
More great news for another AIR-based iPad game. Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure is now highlighted in the New & Noteworthy section for games on the iPad. The web version of this game has garnered a lot of attention and it is great to see it taking off on the iPad. This is undoubtedly one of [...]
Tweet Hunt is a Beautiful New Game for the iPad
Jared Kroff is a creative director at the great Red Interactive agency and he has been doing innovative Flash work for years. I remember a session he gave at FITC years ago talking about the Red Universe site and I was blown away. Well now Jared has created the most beautiful Flash-based game for the [...]
Creating SkinnableContainer skins for Flex mobile apps
Recently I was looking for an example on how to create a skin that would work with the SkinnableContainer component class in a Flex mobile application. It turned out I couldn’t find any examples available in the wild so I had to dig it out myself. So below is the approach I took, which can also work [...]
Skinning a Flex Mobile Button with Bitmaps
I’m working on a mobile app that requires a lot of skinning and since Flex 4 we’ve gotten a MUCH improved skinning model for Flex. Unfortunately, with Flex mobile, for performance reasons it’s a good idea to use ActionScript-only skins … Continue reading →
New Tutorial on Tablet Swipe Gestures
I just uploaded a new tutorial that shows how to respond to the swipe gesture event and create a more traditional tablet photo gallery. This also uses the scrollRect technique rather than blitting. It is important to be aware of all these rendering met…
