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To provide a better user experience, we often use content delivery solutions like Limelight or Akamai to host bigger files and reduce load time. (Although this cuts into the user’s time spent… Labs is the Big Spaceship dev team’s playground, where we share ideas and discuss code. Check out labs.bigspaceship.com for more discussion, as well as some of the tools we’ve built!

I don’t think I’ve blogged this yet but a blog entry from Dan Wilson earlier today reminded me I needed to mention it. Dan, and others, are running a 100% free ColdFusion/Flex/AIR/etc conference in North Carolina. NCDevCon will be held May 22-23rd a…

Mark just posted a very interesting article about Flash Player 10.1/PhoneGap integration on the Nexus One: As we edge closer to the release of Flash Player 10.1 in the first half of this year, it seems appropriate to revisit these posts. In this post you’ll see that there are hidden benefits to using a common runtime [...]

I wrote an article for Flash&Flex Developers Magazine about using SWFAddress in your Flex and Flash projects. You can download a free copy of the issue here: Flash&Flex March 2010. My article starts on page 89 of the PDF. Here are the links to the example applications that I created. Simple Dynamic – actually, this one is pretty [...]

There’s a lot that makes 360|Flex special, but I have to say, this type of thing, really is icing on the cake. That our speakers and attendees, are capable to having so much fun, WHILE learning a ton, is incredible. Despite the interruption, Nate’s session got lots of love on twitter, as mind blowing. No one complained afterward, no one bitched on twitter, etc. It was said shortly after “You won’t see that at MAX” I completely agree!

Before HTML5, even the dynamic user experiences can be done with with Javascript and AJAX, but the abilities of HTML in the different browsers was very limited and Flash leveraged this very well by provided richer user experiences, more dynamic pages and most important video. HTML 5, the next version of HTML does provide a [...]

In this quick tip, we’ll review how to work with HTML 5 video in your own projects. Because older browsers and Internet Explorer do not understand the <video> element, we must also find a way to serve a Flash file to viewers who are utilizing those browsers.

You can expect challenging projects, a pleasant working environment, modern infrastructure, development potential and good employment conditions. Requirements: Profound experience in programming with Adobe ColdFusion and good knowledge of XHTML, CSS, JavaScript (Ajax) and Adobe Flash / Flex. MS-SQL skills are an advantage. In addition, you are a team player and independently. Here is the link.

NCDevCon is a free two day conference on ColdFusion, Flash, Flex, AIR, HTML, Javascript and CSS. We’ve been building on the success of last year, and making bigger moves to grow the community. We are a victim of our own success. What I mean by that is, we’ve taken some big strides to find developers who aren’t typically at Adobe conferences. Last year we held a free ColdFusion training day and also a free Flex training day. These training sessions were well received by the audience and much good was done. This year, the interest for these classes has already

As you probably already know, besides my personal Flash Platform Adventures represented on this blog, which includes recent AS3 learning experiments and gamedev efforts, one of my projects is also Free Flash Clocks blog. Flash2nd blog already hosts 58 free clocks. All those clocks are available for download, so anyone can use it on their own website or blog as Flash widget.There are several good ways for widgets promotion, besides your own blog(s). First obvious one is social networking websites. Twitter is good choice if you have established account with few thousands of real followers in related field. Another good

HTML5 vs. Flash debates are engaging. No doubt about that. But if you strip away the bombast, you’ll find that HTML5 also offers an interesting feature set that’s worth investigating. In this Q&A, HTML/CSS expert and author Eric A. Meyer explains why HTML5, CSS and JavaScript are the “classic three” skills developers and designers need to acquire.

I recently decided to do a small experiment with the Flash mobile game titles I have in the Nokia Ovi Store. They’ve been there from the very beginning of the Ovi Store at the lowest price point (1 EUR), and over the past months I’ve watched the sales dwindle to nearly zero. In saying that, [...]

Development of enterprise Flex/Java rich Internet applications benefits from using automated data integration solutions and productivity tools. Currently Adobe offers LiveCycle Data Services ES2 (LCDS) and open source BlazeDS 3. While LCDS is certainly a great piece of software for those who are looking to support thousands concurrent users via the most [...]

Do you wonder what’s going on with the next versions of Creative Suite? Do you want to know what are the new features from the next versions of Photo Shop, Flash Professional, or Illustrator? Well you have an easy way (and funny too): just follow the news at Creative Suite Buzz Hub. Enjoy!

Flex DMV components (AdvancedDataGrid, OLAPDataGrid and Charts) which were priced features in Flex builder 3.0 are not free and open source. These components are now integrated as part of the Flex SDK. You can download the latest SDK from http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4 So, you no longer need to have Flash builder professional license to use these features.

During last few events that I presented at I got a questions about links to resources that can help beginners start learning Flex. I quickly compiled the list that is below. I really like the most Tour De Flex, this is actually a resources that I still use it myself Tour de Flex application: [...]

This Wednesday (17.03.2010, 11:00am CET) I will be doing an online e-seminar about “Multitouch development with Flash and Flex”. You will learn how you can start immediately building multitouch enabled applications, what new API’s are coming with FP10.1 and AIR 2.0, what are the differences and what is supported on underlying operating systems. Please register [...]

There have been requests to put the Blender to ActionScript exporter on Google Code. I’ve created this page: http://code.google.com/p/blender-as-exporter/ If you want to make any contributions to make the plugin better then give me a shout!

Around the web we can find a lot of interesting e useful flex custom components. In my last works I had the chance to use the Autocomplete component developed by Hillel Coren (http://hillelcoren.com). In this post I’ll try to present it briefly. Customizing behavior and interface of the component : This component is very similar to a standard ComboBox, although it doesn’t extend from that kind of flex UIComponent. It has a fair number settings you can adjust, like: – selectedItemsStyleName: through this property, developers can control the look of selected items. There are four choices: facebook, macMail, underline and

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This is the first of a two-part series of articles on how to properly use the Swiz microarchitecture framework for large scale enterprise Flex applications that require a clear structure and the use of best practices with design patterns. These articles are the culmination of a section I originally wrote for the book I am [...]

Last Sept in 2009, looks like Adobe put on a contextual app preso I must have missed right before MAX. Although it’s a bit out date, it’s still got some valid points and remarks in it. It’s worth watching, especially since it’s done by that “demo guy” Adrian Ludwig (Adobe, who “works on the Flash [...]

How Flex treats strokes on GraphicElements can be a little tricky. This post explains how the stroke of a GraphicElement contributes to the measured size of a spark Group. First consider a plain old Rect with a red fill and no stroke inside of a Group: <s:Group id="group1"> <s:Rect id="rect1" width="50" height="50"> [...]

The last copy of Director I upgraded to was MX 2004 (aka “Director 10″). I haven’t had any Director projects since I was laid off from Reality Engineering nearly three years ago, and the only Director-related project I’ve had was a prototype for an online (Flash) update of a 1994 Director product. MX 2004 wasn’t much use there; I had to switch into Classic OS 9 mode and run Director 6 just to open the DIR files. My role in that project came to an end in February 2008. Upgrading hasn’t exactly been a priority. I’ve always loved using Director

Got an idea for an Adobe product in the Flash Platform that isn’t quite a bug? View and rate ideas at: http://ideas.adobe.com/.

Last year at Adobe MAX, I got a hands-on with QNX’s “qnxcar” which sports Flash-based user experiences throughout the vehicle. Adobe has a new case study that covers QNX and some of its endeavors with Flash: QNX Software Systems reinvents in-vehicle systems and accelerates time to market for automakers with QNX CAR, based on the Adobe® Flash® [...]

Mark A. Doherty had a recent post on how to Bridge in-browser Flash 10.1 into lower level APIs on devices using 3rd party software (e.g. Phone Gap). FlashCam Demo from Mark Doherty on Vimeo. Although it seems to me somewhat kludgy, it’s good to know that this route exists for extending browser bound applications and content [...]

The application that we will be creating, is one you have seen on many website I am sure. A situation where you get to change the color of an object(a car, clothes, etc.). Ours we will be a simple one, but the lessons you learn here can apply to the …

Who follows me on twitter already noticed I’ve created a little app inspired by scribbler from zefrank. I also found another cool version of Mario Klingemann aka Quasimondo called scribblerToo. But the one where it all started is the javascript version of Mr.Doob. I wanted to try this in flash, and called it findClosest. It’s not such great as the other versions, but I really think there are some interesting things in here.

Here’s one of many tablets slated for release in 2010 which will be supporting Flash this year. It’ll be interesting to see if Android and other more open tablets and device platforms can win consumers over with features facing the stiff competition from Apple’s iPad, with its heavy branding, familiar user experience, and closed ecosystem [...]

I noticed there’s a new Flash Lite book coming out soon. Congrats to the author, JG Anderson! Professional Flash Lite Mobile Development Discover how to create Flash Lite mobile apps from the ground up Adobe Flash is an ideal choice for developing rich interactive content for “Flash-enabled” mobile devices; and with this book, you’ll learn how to create [...]

Scobleizer had a recent interview with Adobe regard Flash on Mobile and Devices. Nice to see some Adobe representation on what’s new with Flash on mobile and devices. Adobe is very “diplomatic” in the responses, but at least they are trying, and getting the word out. Some of what I hear in the videos smacks [...]

NEATO! Did you know that stack trace (getStackTrace ) can be used even when NOT throwing an Error to get more actionscript debugging information when you need it (and only when you need it). WITHOUT throwing Errors interrupting program flow and WITHOUT using the sluggish remote debugger. Plus it’s very easy to do. Let’s look at [...]

Last week in my FLEX On jQuery series with Joe Rinehart , I explored the idea of creating non-coupled UI elements that communicate indirectly through the use of event listeners and modifiable event behaviors . In that experiment, I used the core jQuery Event object with custom event types to model custom events; but, I … Read More »

In previous article we have particularly introduced some ActionScript Class. For example about: Color, TextField, Sound, Button… This time we prepared a list of Misc Class for you. They are very common and often be used during the coding job. Then it must be very helpful to you. Now let’s start! Survey Lite Library for [...]

So, why Flash CS4 eats 69% of my CPU doing absolutely nothing in background? Yes I know I have 20 documents open, but anyway.

Here is a new company creating Flash Mobile content: InRuntime. They created a game, Alchemist, for iPhone/iTouch and Android with Flash Mobile technology. Alessandro

The Houston Space City Adobe User Group meets the last Thursday of every month. The next meeting will be: Date: Thursday March 25, 2010 Time: 3:30-5:00pm Location: NASA JSC Gilruth Center, The San Jacinto Room Snacks and drinks provided by Fusionpage.com Agenda Preliminary 3:30-4:15 TBD Presenter: TBD Please let me know if you’d like to volunteer to speak during this session 4:15-5:00 3D Data Visualization with Flex and Google Earth Presenter: Don Kerr Don will demonstrate how to visualize real-time data in 3D with Google Earth using Flex and Coldfusion. The presentation will include 1) how to add Google SketchUp

It wouldn’t be a 360Flex wrap if I didn’t give out my Lego Vagina award for the most Flextastic or Actionscripty new something-or-another. The three nominees for this conference are: The Flex 4 framework Lets put it this way: The Flex 4 framework is still in beta and yet many people are already saying, “Remember back in the [...]

Dinner with legends I’ve never had more fun and learned less at a 360Flex conference before. I had a great, GREAT, time because there were so many amazing people there. I had dinner with Jessy Warden, Ben Stucki, and Doug McCune. That alone is worth the price of admission. I know these guys are legends [...]

Although you can easily just download the Swiz 1.0 Beta SWC (above), you can also check-out the project from github (the Swiz repository) into Flex Builder and build it yourself. To do so (from scratch), try out these steps: Install EGit Install the “EGit” eclipse plug-in (Update site: http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates) into Flex Builder Create Flex Library Project and import [...]

Every time I need to embed an image, text or binary file in ActionScript I have to go google “actionscript embed text file” because I simply don’t know this code snippet by heart: [Embed(source="text.txt",mimeType="application/octet-stream")] private var TextClass:Class; I bet this site gets a ton of visits from people like me. I just don’t know why but I can’t remember [...]

Not a new topic you say? Microcontrollers with web / socket interfaces have been around for a while – but I haven’t seen anyone connecting the dots in a a way that makes sense for general consumption by Flash, Flex, and AIR developers. read more

In October of last year I had the honour of speaking at CFinNC, a ColdFusion / Flex / AIR conference organized by the Triangle Area ColdFusion User’s Group. It was an outstanding conference; well run, with informative sessions on timely topics, which is pretty amazing considering that it was absolutely free. The mad geniuses behind CFinNC are throwing another conference this year, and this time it’s called NCDevCon. It will be held May 22-23, 2010 on the Centennial Campus of NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. This year’s conference is planning on covering a wide variety of web development

It is as easy as typing Color.interpolateColor(color1,color2,progress). The Color class does all the work of linearly interpolating between the red, green and blue components for any two colors. The effect is a smooth, gradual transition.

Last week, I’ve presented on Flex modules and libraries at 360flex in San Jose, CA. This talk brought lots of developers to the room. After this 80-minute presentation I’ve been answering questions for another 25 minutes. Such an unexpected interest to this non-flashy and very technical topic is a good indication that lots of enterprise grade [...]

Intelligent Software Solutions developed a touch table for the White House Situation Room. The application is really a mash-up of technologies including the ISS-developed Web Enabled Temporal Analysis System framework for data access and aggregation combined with a custom touch interface developed by ISS, utilizing the Adobe® Flex® framework, finally sending results to Google™ Earth. With this [...]

Here is a very interesting article from Vision Mobile that will steer some discussion on current Adobe mobile strategy. “Adobe’s unified Flash Platform strategy is built on the premise that designers and developers (i.e. Adobe’s key customers) can create content that spans all terminals, form-factors and interaction experiences – thanks to a ubiquitous consistent runtime. Yet, the [...]

We have added a new licensing option for the Aspire UI Components (Flash ActionScript 3.0) toolkit. For teams with more than 15 developers, this option translates to significant savings. A Site License grants all developers located at the same site, working for the same organization, the rights to use the toolkit, royalty-free. It doesn’t matter [...]