MobileDashboard for iOS, Android, and PlayBook: Source code available on GitHub
I continue to see a very high level of interest for data visualization applications on mobile devices. Tablets in particular are fast becoming the device of choice for dashboards, analytics, and BI applications. With its powerful charting components library, Flex is the ideal solution for building these applications. And because it’s Flex, it’s also cross-platform: [...]
MobileTrader for iOS, Android, and PlayBook: Source code now available on GitHub
I made some changes to the MobileTrader application and took the opportunity to push the source code to GitHub. You can get it here: https://github.com/ccoenraets/MobileTrader This version was built with the shipping version of Flex and Flash Builder 4.5.1 which has built-in support for iOS, Android and the BlackBerry PlayBook. The most notable change in [...]
Adobe LCDS Samples in BlackBerry App World
Hooray! My Adobe LCDS Samples application was successfully reviewed and accepted in BlackBerry App World! If you have your PlayBook you can install it directly from here. My experience of publishing to the App World was really straightforward although it took about 8 working days to have my app reviewed and accepted. In advance of that [...]
CSS Regions Working Draft And Video
Looking for a way to get web page text to flow properly between different page sections? Need to wrap text around irregular shapes? Check out this video of CSS Regions, work by Adobe colleagues that has been submitted to W3C as a working draf…
Adobe AIR and Sony Tablet Opportunities Webinar
Today, July 20th, join Adobe & Sony for a webinar on Sony Tablet devices and the Adobe AIR App Challenge. Fellow evangelists, Ryan Stewart and Mark Doherty, will present the two webinars:
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US/Pacific Time – Mark Doherty
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM US/Pacific Time – Ryan Stewart
You can register here.
BrowserLab is Free
A few months back I did a post about rewriting my site with HTML5. It just got reposted by DZone. It picked up a few reads including one from the Product Manger for BrowserLab, Bruce Bowman.
He took me to task for claiming that you had to be a CS5 cus…
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.
Back [...]
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 [...]
My Mode Source On GitHub
You may recall that I recently posted some screenshots of Mode (a Flixel based game) on various devices. Well I was going to release the source straight after but decided to wait until Flex SDK 4.5.1 was released as it provided a nice speed bump to iOS (a 4x increase in CPU mode in fact). [...]
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