Flash Builder 4.5 Reference Card Available!
May 10th, 2011
I recently worked on updating the DZone Flash Builder Reference card for Flash Builder 4.5 and it’s become available this week for you to download and use for your daily development! DZone offers numerous reference cards to aid developers in all technologies in their work and I’ve found them so useful over the years. You [...]
Videotutorial: Beginning with Alternativa 3D
May 10th, 2011
If you are beginning with 3D in Flash, this videotutorial might come handy. Enjoy! Alternativa 3D is one the popular 3D engines for Flash. Alternativa 3D Platform Engine and Flash Also if you are looking for the text version of this ...
Upcoming events: Meet the PlayBook, CS5.5 Evolution Tour, Multi Mania, Webinale
May 10th, 2011
Traditionally May and June seem to be the busiest months of the year and it’s no different this year. Later today I’m taking the Eurostar to London and will join the CS5.5 Evolution Tour crew for the CS5.5 event in London. There’s still some room left if you want to join us but you may want to [...]
Adobe Photoshop iPad Companion Apps now available
May 10th, 2011
The wait is over the first three Photoshop companion apps for the iPad are available on the App Store.
More On ColdFusion Builder Express
May 10th, 2011
I mentioned ColdFusion Builder Express last week, here are some more details courtesy of the engineering team.
Styling your Flex 4.5 Mobile Application Tabs and ActionBar
May 9th, 2011
If you’re building a TabbedViewNavigatorApplication in Flex 4.5 and you want to customize your tabs or ActionBar (the title bar that contains title text and any other components or navigation content), you can go about it in a couple of different ways. One approach would be to skin the tabs with your own custom assets [...]
Effectively using Acrobat.com with Adobe Captivate 5 for Tracking Learners’ Quiz Results [Webinar]
May 9th, 2011
UPDATE. In case you missed this eSeminar, the recording is now available here: http://adobe.ly/l6MdfE This week I’m hosting a webinar on how to use our free Adobe cloud (i.e. Acrobat.com) with Adobe Captivate 5 as a lightweight Learning Management System (LMS) for publishing and tracking Learners’ Quiz Results. The functionality is included in Captivate 5 out-of-the-box [...]
Join us for MAX 2011! (And the Loyalist Discount)
May 6th, 2011
The site for MAX 2011 is up and has a ton of info about what’s in store for October. It’s going to be tough to match next year but with the launch of CS 5.5, the new mobile workflows in … Continue reading →
Upcoming Adobe events in May and June
May 5th, 2011
This is a shortlist of events I will be attending during the months of May and June 2011. Stay tuned for more. Go create!
Creating Flex Mobile Apps with Flash Builder for PHP
May 5th, 2011
As you might have heard, we released earlier this week Flash Builder and Flex 4.5. Part of this release is a new product called Flash Builder for PHP 4.5. This is something you should make sure you try if you are a PHP and Flash/Flex developer. So what is Flash Builder for PHP? This product will [...]
Flex/AIR Mobile Color Picker
May 5th, 2011
I have been writing a new application the last few days and ran into an issue. The old mx color picker has no counterpart in Flex Mobile Development. After some quick research, I decided to make a view that can be reused by others. The source cod...
Using Menus in your Flex 4.5 Mobile Application
May 4th, 2011
There is a new Spark ViewMenu component to use for mobile application development. Here’s a list of important facts to know about the ViewMenu: ViewMenu is automatically created when the device Menu button is pressed, but can be programmatically opened as well. VewMenu will close when you click outside of it, but can also be [...]
The new and improved Flex.org
May 3rd, 2011
We recently updated Flex.org – check it out! Facts about Flex.org: Flex.org is managed by the Adobe Platform Evangelism Team so it’s a bit less formal than the typical Adobe sites. It is a great first stop for anyone interesting in seeing what Flex is about. It has very good introductory content about all things Flex [...]
What’s your favorite Flash Builder 4.5 feature?
May 3rd, 2011
In case you haven’t heard… Creative Suite 5.5 and Flash Builder 4.5 are now available for purchase and trial versions are also available. There are lots of new features in both Creative Suite 5.5 and Flash Builder 4.5… But what’s your favorite new feature? Record a quick video, submit it to YouTube, tag it with [...]
Duane’s World #33 – Ben Watson on CEM/CX
May 3rd, 2011
This episode of Duane's World was filmed in Barcelona, Spain with Ben Watson. The talk focuses on Customer Experience Management (aka CEM) which is an emerging architectural discipline focusing on a customer experience view. While previous user exp...
Pushbutton Engine – Animating Bitmap Sprites
May 3rd, 2011
In this Pushbutton Engine instalment we’re going to be looking at how you can add animations to your player using sprite sheets, although this can apply equally to non-player characters (NPCs). For now we’re only going to be looking at Bitmap based animations – SWF based animations I’ll save for another time. If you’re not [...]
New ADC HTML5 Developer Center
May 3rd, 2011
Adobe Developer Connection has introduced a new HTML5 Developer Center, your one stop shop for all things HTML5, including CSS3, using new APIs, working with audio and video and more.
Using Flash Builder 4.5 to Package Arbitrary SWFs for iOS, Android, and PlayBook
May 3rd, 2011
Note: Using non-mobile optimized SWFs will most likely perform poorly. For example using any SWFs created with Flex SDKs before 4.5 should really be done with Flex 4.5 or higher. Do you want to create Flash/AIR content for the different devices and don’t know where to start? Maybe you have some old SWFs that you [...]
Slides and FlashCamp beginner course
May 2nd, 2011
Some people asked for the slides and tutorial used at the FlashCamp San Francisco 2011. So here are the slides: Flash Builder for PHP and Mobile development And here is a ZIP file containing the tutorial (a PDF file) used for the beginner course on mobile and the finished projects. There are five exercises in this [...]
Swipe on mobile items
May 2nd, 2011
I’ve been playing with the mobile item renderers this week for a customer. I wanted to reproduce a classic mobile gesture: a swipe from the right to the left on a list item to display custom actions. Extending mobile item renderers is very fun with Flex 4.5. That said, to exchange data between the list [...]
Adobe MAX 2011
May 2nd, 2011
The new site for Adobe MAX 2011 is now live at http://max.adobe.com/. You can already register and will get a substantial break by doing so this early in the game. The early bird pricing ends July, 2011. Adobe MAX awards: If you have done somethin...
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