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Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 12/30/10
Posted on Dec 30, 2010
2010 is almost over. It's been a good year for me and I hope it has been for you as well. To everyone in the Flash Platform community, keep up the great work!
I failed to include it in last week's update but TJ Downes, Ben Farrell and Vicky Ryder created a new AIR application called Media Slurp that is designed to be a one-stop-shop for community-driven multimedia content. For example, it currently gives you access to live streams as well as a number Flash Platform related podcasts including the Flex Show, RIA Radio, CFHour and more.
On the New Year's note, Adobe's Matt Rozen shares a list of his top ten Flash Platform advancements for 2010. It serves as a reminder that a lot has happened for the better in 2010, particularly in the mobile and devices area, despite the naysayers.
Continue Reading →Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 12/22/10
Posted on Dec 22, 2010
As one might expect, this was a lighter week than usual in the Flash Platform community though you know you have a healthy community when a light week includes over 20 top-notch posts on a variety of topics. I am particularly curious personally about controlling Flash applications using my brain and Sean Moore's MindSet API. Next thing you know there will be spontaneously manifested ActionScript 3 ISOs running around a Flex-based Grid. Sorry for the uber-geek reference, which is from the recent Tron:Legacy film for those that don't have CLU. ;)
Continue Reading →Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 12/16/10
Posted on Dec 16, 2010
As usual there's tons of amazing stuff to discuss this week. Obviously each week, many of the evangelists, product team members and other internal community here at Adobe have some solid posts to share. However, this week I wanted to specifically highlight some of the non-Adobe community members whose posts I highlight below. This week they include (with links to Twitter profiles where known) Raymond Camden, Steven Peeters, Marc Carmen, Jesse Freeman, Andy Matthews, Christopher Caleb, RJ Owen, Brian Kotek, David Ortinau, Justin McLean, Joseph Labrecque, Sergey Shtyrlov, Emanuele Feronato and Ben Nadel. Thanks guys for helping to make th Flash Platform community awesome!
Continue Reading →Passing Data Across Views in Flex Mobile
Posted on Dec 14, 2010
If you've done any development using Flex "Hero" for mobile (i.e. Android), you already know that you can pass any arbitrary struture of data when you push or pop a View to the ViewStack. I talk a little bit about this topic in an earlier post covering passing data on pop methods (i.e. popView() and popToFirstView()). In this post, I want to cover using an ActionScript class to encapsulate your View data rather than passing arbitrary data to each View. This entails passing data into your first View, passing data when pushing Views and passing data when popping Views. This isn't an official best practice, but rather a practice I've found useful and wanted to share and discuss. As a side note, some of this code comes from my upcoming article on advanced AIR for Android development with Flex for the Adobe Edge which should be published some time soon.
Continue Reading →Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 12/9/10
Posted on Dec 09, 2010
Some weeks the cup just overflows with great content, and this is certainly one of those weeks! The big announcement this week was the release of the Flash Player 10.2 beta that includes the major StageVideo enhancement. Of course, there were tons of posts on this topic. In addition, Blackberry is heating up development of applications by offering free devices to developers publishing to their market and releasing an SDK update. This seems to have spurred a great deal of interest in Blackberry Tablet OS development. I've also added a ColdFusion category to include posts from the ColdFusion community that I think readers will find worthwhile.
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