The Perspective Grid in Adobe Illustrator CS5 for Rapid Packaging Prototyping
The perspective grid in Adobe Illustrator CS5 offers great opportunities to take your 2D content into perspective. See how I turn a flat packaging design into a three dimensional representation for a presentation.
Updating my ColdFusion HTML presentation to use jQuery
So a few hours ago I blogged about how you can use the cfpresentation tag to create an HTML-based presentation. As I mentioned in the blog post, the output works, but, is a bit atrocious. It looks like I designed it. Drunk. (To be fair, …
cfpresentation and HTML slides
This topic came up from a cf-newbie discussion this weekend, but did you know that cfpresentation can be used to create HTML presentations? The reference is a bit confusing on the matter. If you look at the docs for the format attribute,…
Quick demo of jQuery and Google Maps
So this is old news to folks already, but it’s the first time I played with it. You can use Google Maps under jQuery Mobile. Not only can you use it, but the maps work real well. It isn’t as responsive as the desktop version but it’s dar…
jQuery Mobile Beta 2 Released
This is actually a few days old, but I’ve been swamped and am only getting to dig into it now. But, as per this blog post, jQuery Mobile Beta 2 (which Adobe is very involved in) has been released.
About Different Types of Fragmentation
If you are a developer fragmentation is part of your life. Everywhere you look you find it:
device fragmentation (devices running on different OSes, with different screens and capabilities – smartphones, personal computer, tablets, televisions, and so on),
browsers fragmentation (you have desktop browsers and mobile browsers, as well as embedded device browsers like those found in [...]
When Lightning Strikes The Network
My home network had a bad week last week. One of my 24 port hubs is dead (well, it powers up and passes POST, but not a single data LED lights up). The WAN port on my SonicWALL firewall is fried (fortunately I had an unused port and was able …
jQuery Mobile Beta 2 released (and a small demo)
Today the jQuery Mobile team released their second beta. You can read up on the details here: jQuery Mobile Beta 2 Released. There are a bunch of exciting new changes in this release (and over the last few releases if you haven’t been ke…
Mobile (3G) vs. WIFI Network Detection with Adobe AIR
Did you know that you can determine whether your mobile device is on wifi or your mobile data connection when using Adobe AIR for mobile? To be honest, I wasn’t aware of it either until yesterday when my friend and former colleague Brian O’Connor pointed me towards a recent tweet from @adobe_cookbook that showed an [...]
Molehill (Stage3D) on Mobile
I recently had the opportunity to start playing around with Molehill for mobile (hardware accelerated 3D graphics), and I think it is something that many of you will be very excited about (see video below). Everyone thinks that 3D is just for games, but it’s not… 3D graphics can be used for complex data visualizations, [...]
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 [...]
