Franci’s FITC San Francisco Diary: Day Two
Aug 31, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, General, Tutorials
By day two at FITC it had become obvious to me that I had underestimated Flash as a tool for deploying all sorts of interactive digital experiences on the desktop as well as in public. It seems you have to see and hear first hand the different logic and technologies that go into creating these experiences to actually realize that you might be able to pull it off yourself.. I’m talking about most of us who have experience with Flash and AS3 and a bit of extra creativity in store. FITC has given me a fresh set of ideas and opened up a new playground I can experiment in.
Tags: actionscript, activetuts, basix, Design, download, Flash Catalyst, mobile, Tutorials, videos, workflow
“Demand for Flash engineers has suddenly Surged” – WSJ
Aug 26, 2010 AIR, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, General, Resources
The Wall Street Journal posted an interesting article about how full-time Flashers “can now command more than $150,000 a year in salary,” according to GreeneSearch recruiting firm. “In Silicon Valley, hot job categories come and go as different technologies shift in and out of favor. The latest example: Flash engineers.” Writer Pui-Wing Tam says that start-ups, such as online gaming companies – are looking for Flash developers who are creative and can code. (That’s you, right?) The Flash developer cited in the piece said, “I make 150% more than three years ago.” Awesome.
Tags: AIR, delicious, Flash, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst, flashers, mobile, tools
H.264 GPU Decoding in Flash Player on Mac OS X is live!
Aug 19, 2010 AIR, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, General
We just pushed a few minutes ago a new version of the Flash Player 10.1.82.76 containing a nice feature that was in beta until now called “Gala”. Yes, H.264 GPU decoding in Mac OSX is now officially enabled in the Flash Player. You should notice now a nice difference when playing H.264 content on your Mac in terms of CPU usage. We rarely enable new features in security releases but we really wanted to enable such a cool feature.
Tags: @seymour-feed-external, calendar, facebook, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst, Flash Player, Flex, flex-framework, stay-updated, tools, Twitter, Video
From Print to Web in a flash
Aug 19, 2010 AIR, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, General
Adobe and HOW magazine challenged some of our favorite designers to transform their existing print work into immersive, interactive projects for the web using Flash Catalyst CS5, and the results are stunning. The designers’ original print work can be seen in HOW’s September/October issue that’s just now hitting the stands, and the interactive results, along with commentary from the designers, can be seen at http://bit.ly/cnUPhV.
Tags: Adobe, calendar, Design, events, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flash Platform, flashcs5, Flex, tools
LiveCycle Collaboration Service and Screen Sharing
Aug 18, 2010 AIR, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, General, Resources, Tutorials
LiveCycle Collaboration Service just got three new features that I’m pretty sure will make you very happy: Screen Sharing. Yes, this is exactly what the names implies. Now, you can add screen sharing to your applications. Amazingly cool isn’t it?
Tags: AIR, books, collaboration, doctrine, Flash, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst, Flash Platform, Flash Player, Flex, presentations, Resources, Tutorials, Video
Upcoming webinars on the Flash Platform
Aug 17, 2010 AIR, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, General, Resources, Tutorials
The summer is almost over (at least in the northern hemisphere 
) which means you are in one of these two situations: either you just came back or you’re about to take one. Either way, I think you’ll find (some of) the webinars we are doing this month quit interesting. As usually, they are free,
Tags: AIR, conferences, event-calendar, events, Flash, Flash Catalyst, presentations, Tutorials
Flash Player 10.1 on Google Nexus Ones
Aug 16, 2010 AIR, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, General
We are pleased to announce that Flash Player 10.1 is now generally available for download on the Android Market for Google™ Nexus One™ phones. Flash Player 10.1 for Android (2.2) is now generally available as of August 16; we had previously released Flash Player 10.1 to partners in June 2010. We expect additional Android devices like the HTC Incredible, Samsung Galaxy S, Motorola Milestone, Droid X, Droid by Motorola, Dell Streak and other mobile platforms to get Flash Player 10.1 over the next few weeks and months. Upgrade paths for devices in market today depend on the specific device, manufacturer, operator and the region.
Tags: Adobe, AIR, delicious, download, Flash, Flash Catalyst, flash player 10.1, flex-framework, mobile, popular-topics, tools
Evento MIF IV este Lunes 16 de Agosto
Aug 13, 2010 AIR, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, General
Evento del grupo de usuarios de Flex, madeinflex.com. Una muy buena forma de pasar una tarde de Agosto con el equipo de evangelistas Europeos de Adobe al completo, tanto si estas de vacaciones por Barcelona o simplemente tienes la tarde libre. Donde y cuando? Hotel H10 Marina Barcelona: Av.
Tags: AIR, cornel-creanga, Flash, Flash Catalyst, kevin-hoyt, mihai-corlan, miti-pricope, remus-stratulat, useful-links
Flash Player 10.1 Demo on HTC Desire
Aug 13, 2010 AIR, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, General
HTC Desire was one of the Android smartphones that began receiving the Android 2.2 and Flash Player 10.1 update over the air in early August. Here is a new video of Flash Player 10.1 demo by Diana Helander at Adobe previewing the full web experience on HTC Desire. This smartphone allows consumers to enjoy full screen, interactive videos and gaming content. Be sure to check out more sites and games at m.flash.com on your Android devices.
Tags: Adobe, AIR, calendar, delicious, diana-helander, facebook, Flash, Flash Catalyst, flash player 10.1, Flex, htc desire, tools, Video
Swiz 1.0 Chaining API explained
Aug 11, 2010 AIR, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, General
Yesterday I was tasked to find a best way to bootstrap a Flex application that uses Swiz 1.0 RC1. The challenge was to initialize application controllers and data model in a right sequence. This is an AIR application so it had to initialize data from SQLite database, make few calls to remote services to check
Tags: Flash Catalyst, flerry, flex-challenge, my-tweets, PHP, piotr-walczyszyn, swiz
