Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I am really excited to announce that my Lynda.com series, AIR for Flash Developers was released yesterday. The series is now available via the Online Training Library, and it will soon be available on DVD.
In this series, you will get to build an entire web browser without ever leaving Flash CS3. In addition, [...]
AIR, Flash, Lynda.com, Uncategorized |
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Adobe Evangelist Serge Jespers has a great overview of the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 on his site. He walks the user through the process of creating a Flex component from the FLVPlayback component in Flash CS3. I agree with Serge that the component kit has a lot of power - and [...]
Flash, Flex |
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
A bit of discussion has developed from my previous article, Moock on ActionScript 4 about features that people would like to see in future versions of ActionScript. Obviously at the top of the list (mentioned by Dave) we have Threads. Does anyone have other things you want to see in the next versions [...]
Flash, Flex |
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Colin Moock is presenting details of ECMAScript 4 at FITC. He has posted some of his lecture notes regarding changes (that will probably be present in ActionScript 4 as well). These changes include:
Flash, Flex |
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
There were two big announcements this week for the Flash platform. First, the new dot-release of Flash Player 9 (codename MovieStar) was released last night. This means that h.264 is now included in the Flash Player (and hopefully for AIR in the near future). There are also many new changes that you [...]
Flash, Flash Media Server |
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Adobe released a press release regarding Flash Media Server 3 today. The FAQ below gives the details of the next release. So much of this is exciting! However, I was quite disappointed that the server-side scripting will still be Actionscript 1. At least the client side will be Actionscript 3 - [...]
Flash |
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Ted Patrick had an intriguing post on the future of the Flash Player (in relation to the Silverlight release) on his blog.
“At Adobe MAX 2007 in Chicago we are going showing off the next full release of Flash Player code named “Astro”. The features are mind numbing and add capabilities far beyond anything the market [...]
Flash |