ColdFusion Unconference Initial Speaker List
Fellow Adobe evangelist (hey, it’s fun to type that) Ray Camden has posted an Initial list of speakers and sessions for the ColdFusion Unconference at Adobe MAX 2011.
Creating Flex Mobile Section Lists
For a mobile application I’m working on I need a section list. If you are familiar with the Flex framework you know that you don’t have built-in section list components (you can have vertical, horizontal, and tile lists). I played a little bit with the Flex List, IconItemRenderer, and BasicLayout classes and managed to put [...]
Upcoming Summits In India And China
Adobe is hosting summits and tech days in India and China, and I plan to attend both. The Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2011 will take place in Bangalore, India, July 27th – 29th, 2011. The Adobe Developer Tech Day (focused on gaming) will take…
Initial list of speakers and sessions for the ColdFusion Unconference
The ColdFusion Unconference, and MAX, is rapidly approaching. (Ok, it’s October, but it sure as heck seems like it’s coming quickly!) Myself, Ezra Parker, and Scott Stroz are busy trying to nail down the final schedule. We are close, and…
Time to disconnect…
Aaah summertime… The best time to take some time off from work and to disconnect. I recently came to realize that it had been a long time since I last took some time off and with recent changes in my personal life I thought it would be a good idea to take some serious time [...]
Interview with RedBull Illume Developer
I just got done chatting with Wolfgang Klopf, the developer for the RedBull Illume app, and he was nice enough to do a quick interview to let people know how he put it together. I have to give him a big thanks for taking the time to share his techniques. Wolfgang and the rest of [...]
DateDiff and Wholeness
This surprised a reader of mine recently and while it falls into the “Obvious” category, I bet it’s something folks forget – or may not remember when debugging a problem with their application. Without running the code below, can you tel…
Lee Brimelow Demos Flash Red Bull iPad Application
The Red Bull Illume is an impressive example of an iPad application built using Flash and AIR. Check out Lee Brimelow’s post and video.
FAQ’s About Dreamweaver CS5.5
After travelling around the world on the Creative Suite Evolution Tour as well as presenting at various Adobe Camps, I’ve been getting a lot questions around Dreamweaver CS5.5. Rightfully so since it has some great features and improvements. So I thought I’d compile the questions into one post. What is Dreamweaver? Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 is a web [...]
Change in debugging with CFCs in ColdFusion 9
Just a quick little post here. A reader contacted me a few days ago with an observation about a change to debugging in ColdFusion 9. In earlier versions of ColdFusion, if debugging was turned on and you ran a CFC (for example, making an …
Awesome RedBull iPad Application Using AIR
If you have an iPad go to the app store and download the RedBull Illume application. It is perhaps the nicest application to date built with AIR and is indistinguishable from a native application. The application showcases some of the best photography from the skate and surf worlds. Check out the video below where I [...]
Geolocation Services
I’d like to re-share a library that I created for the Radar application last year, designed to provide assistance for Geolocation, reverse geocoding, local weather, place names and a utility for determining the Sunrise and Sunset for a given latitude and longitude. The reason for the library was not to create a wrapper over the [...]
Interested in AIR development for the Nook?
If you are in the Bay Area you can sign up for a free workshop on building Nook apps using Adobe AIR. I’ve done this myself and have an app in the queue to be reviewed. Once approved I’ll blog about what it was like. (Painless – but I’ll…
Sprite Sheets and Blitting Tutorial – Part 3
I just uploaded the final tutorial covering the basics of doing blitting in Flash. In this part I show you how to create a reusable blit sprite class and incorporate the JSON data. I plan on covering other topics related to blitting in later tutorials …
jQuery Mobile Quick Start and new jQuery class
I’ve been working on a quick start for jQuery Mobile for some time now. The draft has been done but waiting for some final edits. Unfortunately, the jQuery Mobile team decided they could still make improvements (what’s wrong with those j…
Presentation tonight: Introduction to jQuery Mobile
Tonight I’ll be giving a presentation to the Bloomington/Normal, IL Rich Internet Applications Group. I’ll be talking about jQuery Mobile and how to build mobile-friendly HTML web sites with it. There’s a small bit of ColdFusion in it bu…
Issue with PowerPoint 2010 Recorded Narration while Importing PPTX into Adobe Captivate
Some of you might have noticed that when you record narration in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 via SlideShow > Record SlideShow > Start Recording from Beginning and import this PPTX in Adobe Captivate, the slide narration is not available in projec…
Politifact AIR Application Tops iOS Charts!
Update: Politifact is now the 111th top paid app in the whole app store – http://twitpic.com/5iqedk The good news keeps rolling in about AIR on mobile. Politifact just released their Flex-based application on iOS, Android, and Blackberry and it has already hit the top of the charts. It is currently the #1 paid news application [...]
CSS3 Transitions
I love Flex and ActionScript but I always want to recommend the appropriate technology for the job. Sometimes that technology is CSS3 and HTML5, which is really exciting to me. So I thought I’d post a simple CSS3 example — on the CSS3 transition property to be specific. It allows property changes in CSS values to [...]
Make ColdFusion Docs Better
Ray Camden spilled the beans on an initiative to make ColdFusion online docs better. Read his post and get involved!
Delay Closing Mobile Apps on Exit
When a user switches to another application on a mobile device AIR on mobile applications keep running. It continues to hold on to resources, fire off events, and has the potential to use power draining resources like network calls, or geolocation if y…
