Browsing articles from "June, 2009"
Jun
29
2009

ActionScript coding conventions and best practices

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While surfing the web I have found really great resource on opensource.adobe.com It contains ActionScript coding conventions and best practices. The content of this article is divided into five sections: Naming Language Usage File Organization Formatting ASDoc Flash tuts+ also run a project in which every Flash Developer can participate. The goal is to create the Coding Conventions Guide for ActionScript. You can read more here. I think every Flash Developer should use this convention. [...]

Jun
27
2009

Strobe, new product from Adobe

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Adobe will offer a standard open framework, code-named Strobe, that accelerates and simplifies media player creation for the Adobe Flash Platform. The idea is to help focus publishers on the user experience and not on technical details while building a media player for their website. For the developers Strobe will provide tools that will help build robust feature-rich media players for Flash. Core Features: Enables the development of high-quality playback experiences Provides a standard open [...]

Jun
25
2009

Desuade Motion Package for Flash

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The Desuade Motion Package is a revolutionary new tweening, sequencing, and physics library for Flash, written specifically for Partigen in AS3. The Motion Package isn’t just for particles ? it’s a full-fledged powerhouse on par with the other top tweening engines. The coolest features of Desaude Motion Package: Create complex animations with code that rival those that seasoned keyframe animators – without ever having to touch the timeline. Use ‘ValueControllers’ and ‘Points’ to achieve the [...]

Jun
24
2009

Flash comes to Android!

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The new Android smartphone HTC Hero will come with Flash. It will be the first Android device that supports Flash technology. HTC Hero delivers a more complete Web browsing experience and allows mobile users to access a broad variety of Flash technology based content available on the Web today. If you want to see Flash on Android in action watch this video. I think it’s a great news, maybe at last Adobe will release Flash [...]

Jun
22
2009

Looking for inspiration?

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Usually when I am looking for inspiration while working on some website project I visit thefwa.com It is a really great site with the best of best Flash/Web projects out there. Recently I found on Twitter really cool site called Flash AllStars. The idea is really simple people can submit their sites. If they are something new or jaw-dropping, they are added to the collection. Now there are 8 categories on Flash AllStars: Companies Games [...]

Jun
22
2009

Freebie: Flex on Grails Book

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Tomás Lin announced on his blog that he decided to share what he has written about Flex on Grail. His book is licensed under Creative Commons License, you can view it here. Right now, only the preface and the hello world chapters are online. In the coming weeks, I?ll update the content on my hard drive, write new content and post them online. Feedback is highly appreciated. This book will target Flex 4 and either [...]

Jun
20
2009

Better SEO for Flash

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From the early days of Flash Player search engine optimization wasn’t his strong site. The reasons for that where basically two: Flash content was not index by Google because Google’s bots couldn’t run the swf file and search through it. Flash has a static url, which is very bad because we cannot link to the specific content (library’s like SWFAddress solve this problem). Until 2008 Google haven’t index Flash files at all. In 2008 Adobe [...]

Jun
18
2009

Flex Data Visualization Contest

One week ago (I know it’s a little late but I just run into this news) Greg Wilson announced on his blog new Flex competition. The goal is to make the coolest dashboard using the real-time data feed from the Tour de Flex server. The contest ends on Friday June 26th at noon ET (so you have more the one week to make your dashboard). The rules are really simple: project must be build using [...]

Jun
18
2009

LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta is out

Today Adobe has released LiveCycle Data Services 3 beta version. Adobe LiveCycle Data Services server makes it possible to easily integrate Flex with Java/J2EE based applications. This release of LCDS delivers many new features and improvements. Main changes: Support for model-driven development of applications for Adobe Flash, which make application development better, faster, and easier New capabilities for developers to controls the quality of service of enterprise applications Also there is some great news for [...]

Jun
16
2009

Two great news from Adobe

Recently Adobe has announced two great news: 1. They has lunched the beta version of Acrobat Tables which enables spreadsheets on acrobat.com Also this application is Flex-based which is really cool. It enables working with and sharing information such as project management task lists, budget planning, sales lead pipelines, contact lists and much more. While developing this project Adobe has focused on really basic but important question: How do people really want to work together [...]

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