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A quick preface to this entries core message about getting involved to help improve the quality of the next releases of the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0: Adobe’s Flash Player has been getting a lot of press lately. Mainly in regards to HTML5, the Apple iPad (and its closed garden), performance on the Mac OS X platform, the changing face of mobile and other related discussions. The crux being Flash’s relevance and importance now and in the future. Posts and comments around the web have covered the entire spectrum, with everything from loquacious pontificating, to lugubriously laconic, to outrageously uninformed. They have all been quite polarizing in one direction or another. The biggest take away for me after...
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Awesome news just in via the Adobe MAX Keynote today: Applications for iPhone via Flash CS5 Professional:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/ Developing for the Apple iPhone using Flash:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/abansod_iphone.html Public Beta of Flash CS5 Professional coming this year:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/ Great article on what exactly this means and some more details by Mike Chambers here: http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2009/10/05/building-applications-for-the-iphone-with-flash/ You can learn more about this announcement in the FAQ below as well as in the following places Adobe News Room (http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/) Information about apps for iPhone on Adobe Labs (http://www.adobe.com/go/iphone) Information about Flash Professional CS5 on Adobe Labs (http://www.adobe.com/go/flashprobeta) More about Flash Professional CS5 What did Adobe announce at MAX regarding Flash...
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The event site for Flash Camp Philadelphia, November 7, 2009 is now live – check it out:
http://flashcamp.pfpaug.org/ Keep an eye on the site and on our twitter account: @flashcampphilly for more news and updates! Download an MP3 Podcast of this Entry (glossolalia_mp3.php?id=623)
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That’s right Flash Camp Philadelphia, November 7, 2009 – It’s coming!
More info and event site to launch next week. Stay tuned – it’s gonna rock! Download an MP3 Podcast of this Entry (glossolalia_mp3.php?id=615)
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  It was quite a surprise, and serendipitous to say the least, that I was sitting in the middle of a local Philadelphia Cocoaheads group meeting last night when I received an unexpected email from one of my favorite clients Wolfgangs Vault. The email indicated that we had just won Macworld UK’s award for Best iPhone/iPod Touch Application of...
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 Save for the exception of Adobe MAX,which I haven’t missed since 2004 and looks to be great again in 2009, I have not been hitting nearly as many conferences for a couple years now. Plenty of local events in the PA, NJ, NY area, but more often than not, I’ve chosen to stay close to home and spend time with my family instead, mainly because my children will only be little once. I know others who have children the same age as mine (1 year old daughter and 3 year old son) and...
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I finally got around to implementing a decent Syntax highlighter for code on my site. I looked at a number of different projects, and none of them had exactly all the features I wanted, so I went with WP-Syntax by Ryan McGeary available here:Â http://ryan.mcgeary.org/wp-syntax/ which in turn is based on GeSHi (Generic Syntax Highlighter) available here:Â http://qbnz.com/highlighter/ I liked how Ryan handled the line numbering on the left, but it was missing a nice way to quickly view the code in plain text, copy the code to your clipboard, or save it directly as a download. Several of the other solutions had features like that in the top header of the code, and I liked that, so I quickly...
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I ran across a recent entry about MouseWheel events on Mac OS X and Flash by Christian Cantrell and realized there were at least 4 cool implementations that I was aware of. Thought I would list them out here, including a modification I made to one that I have been using and has been around for at least a year or longer now. I really like the anonymous JS function injection approaches that several of them leverage. So here they are: Takanobu Izukawa of the Spark project:
http://www.libspark.org/wiki/SWFWheel/en
http://www.libspark.org/wiki/SWFSize/en Gabriel Bucknall – PixelBreaker – AS3.0 MouseWheel on Mac OS X
http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/flash/as30-mousewheel-on-mac-os-x/ Ali Rantakari – Mac OS X Mouse Wheel Support for ActionScript 3...
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I’ve been working a great deal on Flash video related projects the past several years, and just this week I ran across and solved a puzzling issue for a client where the duration value being injected into a very large .flv file kept coming up far short of its real world value. I talked it through on Stefan Richters great mailinglist FLASHMEDIA and thanks to Asa Whillock at Adobe on the FMS team, came to a conclusion, so I’m consolidating it all here for the benefit of others.
The video in question was over 8 hours in length, 8 hours 26 minutes and 26 seconds to be exact. It was encoded using the On2 VP6...
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 Today on 08/08/08 I decided to throw the switch on a new version of my personal site. If the DNS changes have begun to propagate and you are reading this right now you are seeing the new site. This will mark the 4th major version of my site over the years since it was originally launched in 1997.
The past 2 years, I have been so busy with other aspects of my life and knee-to-head-deep in work related projects that I haven’t posted with any regular frequency. I have a great deal of...
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