Video: Introduction to the New Adobe AIR Launchpad
Aug 24, 2010 AIR, Flash, Flex, General, Resources
I just created a video that walks through the new Adobe AIR Launchpad . The AIR Launchpad is the easiest way to get started building desktop apps with Adobe AIR and Flex. Check it out:
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Tags: AIR, Flash, Flash Platform, Flex, linux, mobile, pdf, PHP, Resources, ria, security, widgets
Flex 4 Fun Book by Chet Haase
Aug 18, 2010 AIR, Flash, Flex, General, Resources
My buddy Chet Haase has written an excellent book on Flex 4, called “ Flex 4 Fun “. Chet’s humor, insight, and concise examples make this a “fun” way to learn Flex. Artima.com has posted some excerpts from the book to give you an idea of what to expect. Check out these great snippets: Bend your Pixels with Flex 4 States and Components in Flex 4 State-Specific Property Values in Flex 4 Graphics in Flex 3 and Flex 4 State Transitions in Flex 4 for Intuitive UIs Stroke of Genius: Drawing Lines in Flex 4 Fills in Flex 4: It’s What’s on the Inside that Counts If you are just getting into Flex or haven’t yet made the switch to Flex 4, then this is a great book to buy.
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Tags: Flash Platform, Flex, james-ward, linux, mobile, python, Resources, ruby on rails, security, Silverlight, spring
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
Bay Area Event: Building RIAs using Flash Builder for Force.com
Aug 17, 2010 AIR, Flash, Flex, General, Resources
Salesforce.com is putting on a great event on August 25 in San Mateo, California where you can learn about how to build RIAs on the Cloud with Flash Builder for Force.com . This will be a great opportunity to meet the team that built the tool and learn how to use it! If you can’t make it then check out the article I recently published “ Building Client / Cloud Apps with Flash Builder for Force.com “. But if you are in the Bay Area and want to get up to speed quickly on building Client / Cloud apps then Register Now !
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Tags: cloud, Flash, Flash Builder, Flash Platform, Flex, mobile, open-source, python, Resources, ruby on rails, salesforce-com, Silverlight, spring, widgets
New Flash Player release enables h.264 GPU decoding on MacOSX
Aug 11, 2010 AIR, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, General, Resources, Tutorials
We’ve just released a new version of Flash Player: 10.1.82.76 which includes support for H.264 video GPU decoding. This was previously available in a beta released code-named Gala.On top of this new cool feature, there were a number of bug fixes, so definitely you should install it as soon as possible. You can get the installers
Tags: AIR, books, event-calendar, Flash Catalyst, Flash Platform, Flex, mihai-corlan, mobile, PHP, Resources, upcoming-events, Video
The AIR Administrator’s Guide – controlling Adobe AIR in your environment
Aug 6, 2010 AIR, Flash, Flex, General, Resources
Every day I see new applications that take advantage of all of the cool features that AIR provides such as SQLite database, encrypted DB, idle detection, network detection, local file support, socket support, native integration, etc. It is no surprise that AIR is starting to be a logical choice for many enterprise applications, especially
Tags: Adobe AIR, adobe-systems, calendar, digital-camera, enterprise air, environment, Flash, Flex, photography, ramblings, Resources, technology
“Flash for Android” Screencast Series + Free Desktop Wallpaper
Aug 5, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Resources, Tutorials
Welcome to a new series on Activetuts+ created solely to cover Flash on Android. During the coming weeks Jesse Freeman will be taking you through a massive collection of screencasts to get you and your Flash completely mobile. Read on to learn more about the series and pick up the free accompanying wallpaper! A Word From the Author My name is Jesse Freeman and I am very proud to help launch this initiative with the help of Powerflasher , the fine makers of FDT. Our goal is to create one of the best online resources about Flash on Android.
Tags: Actionscript 3.0, AIR, articles, basix, Design, Flash, mobile, news, Resources, web design
Useful Tutorials Listing From Tutorials Palace
Aug 2, 2010 Flash, Flex, General, Resources, Tutorials
Today we are sharing with you the best free tutorials based on Photoshop , Illustrator , Dreamweaver , HTML , CSS , PHP and Flash, all these useful tutorials we compiled from TutorialPalace , its an inspirational post because TutorialPalace team working really hard and introducing new advanced techniques in the categories we just mentioned above. Thought behind this post was just to share these new advanced techniques with our users and visitors, so that they can learn better about these major topics and also they can apply in their future projects, hope you’ll also appreciate the work done by TutorialPalace , lets have a look… Basic Connectivity of Flash and XML How to Make Transparent Background of SWF in Webpage Simple PHP Contact Form Tutorial PHP Upload Single File Contact Form Validation in Dreamweaver Metallic text effect in Photoshop Make Gift Box in Adobe Illustrator Using Skew Techniques How to make Necklace in Adobe Illustrator 3D Shade Effect in Photoshop Wind Text Effect Photoshop Tutorial Designing of Beautiful Contact Form Related posts: 30 Simply Amazing Graffiti Art Tutorials We proudly presenting an amazing list of graffiti art… 25 Ultimate Useful PSD to HTML Tutorials At the start of a web project many designers… Collection of Stunning Tutorials Using Photoshop Today we’re with recommended roundup of Photoshop Tutorials which…
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Tags: css, Flash, Flex, html, illustrator tutorials, matte-painting, photoshop, photoshop tutorials, PHP, Resources, tutorial, videos
How to Define Styles on Skins in Flex 4
Jul 30, 2010 AIR, Flash, Flex, General, Resources
The new component / skin separation in Flex 4 (the Spark Architecture) is pretty nifty. But if you want to add a configurable style to a skin then that style must be defined on the component. For instance if you want to add a backgroundColor style to a Button skin then you need to first create a new Button component with the style on it: package { import spark. components .
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Tags: button, cloud, Flash, Flash Platform, Flex, james-ward, linux, mobile, posted-july, Resources, rob-mckeown, skins, widgets
Shutterfly releases new Express Uploader built with Adobe AIR
Jul 28, 2010 AIR, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, General, Resources
Shutterfly recently released a new application called the Express Uploader that makes it very easy for their customers to upload images to a Shutterfly account. Once uploaded, the existing Shutterfly can be used to turn albums into prints, photo books, calendars and more. The application is powered by Adobe AIR and leverages new capabilities available in our most recent version of the AIR runtime (version 2) including integration with native code using the native process API. Congratulations to the team at Shutterfly on the launch of the desktop application! Anumber of popular uploading tools are now powered by AIR including the Vimeo uploader that we highlighted in an earlier blog post .
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