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CQ Developer Support a new direction
Over the past five years I have been helping developers with ActionScript and Flex. I just recently moved into a role where I’ll be helping CQ developers and I’m starting to learn the product myself. During my learning process I hope to sha… More
ActionScript 3.0 Factory Method Expansion: The UI Factory
Adding New Product to Existing Factory In creating the Button Factory example (see previous post), I wanted to add more to it for a full UI factory. The problem is that the Creator participant returned a Sprite and I wanted to be able to assign text va… More
Happy 25th, Adobe Illustrator!
Adobe’s first software product is as relevant today as it was when it first launched.
When Adobe Illustrator shipped on March 19, 1987, it was the first software application for a young company (we were five years old) that had, until then, focused s… More
FDT and APDT
APDT – the Agile Pseudocode Development Tool – is a great plugin to use with FDT. The tool by Envision automatically produces source code and documentations from simple models. APDT instantly generates different source codes and can export … More
The Button Factory: Labels and Buttons from the Same Factory Methods
Beginning of a UI Factory The other day I was looking at an ActionScript 3.0 program, and the developer used a ‘UI Factory.’ I looked at it, and while the program did indeed get UIs from the UIFactory class, it wasn’t a design pattern… More
Pew Pew Chronicles: Hello, Metro!
This is part two of a series of blog posts about a crazy journey that eventually led to Pew Pew becoming one of the first apps in Microsoft’s App Store. On a long flight from Seattle to Omaha I learned about Metro and got hooked. I decided to d… More
Global Variables in ActionScript – 3/2/2012 – Episode 128 – Flextras Friday Lunch
I demo how to create global variables or constants in ActionScript at this weeks session. Flextras Friday Lunch is a short demo followed by open Q&A that occur the first and third Friday of every month at 1pm EST. The presentations take place over Conn… More
CanSecWest 2012
The team and I are about to head off to CanSecWest. While I have been attending CanSecWest for several years, this year will be a unique experience for me. During my talk, I will demo an open-source tool I just released, called Adobe SWF Investigator. … More
Creating games with Starling with Lee Brimelow and Tom Krcha at FITC Amsterdam
With a coffee under my belt, I was ready for Lee Brimelow and Tom Krcha to get me up to speed on creating games with Starling. After a warm welcome, Lee dove into the workshop with an overview of what Starling is,“an ActionScript 3, 2D framework on t… More
Pew Pew Chronicles, December 2011
This is part one of a series of blog posts about a crazy journey that eventually led to Pew Pew becoming one of the first apps in Microsoft’s App Store. It all began in December, 2011…
Attention Earthlings!
If you download and install M… More