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Where's Flexdaddy?
Andrew Spaulding is at home in Melbourne and has planned trips to:
Sydney, Australia in July- Mount Buller, Australia in July
- Los Angeles, CA, United States in October
Creative Sweet TV
- Change the color of your Ferrari, or Hair, Photoshop CS4 (No. 63)
- Ferrari art on Photoshop.com
- A fresh look at Illustrator CS4 (No. 62)
- Astronomy Telescopes and Adobe Photoshop (No. 61)
- iPhone – Holographic Function using Flash 3D.
- Top 5 Shortcuts InDesign CS4 (No. 60)
- 3d Motion Tracking (No. 59)
- Hot Zoom and Pan Techniques. (No. 58)
- Interactive InDesign PDF & SWF (No. 57)
- The good the bad and the retouched (No. 56)
Slides / Demos / Special effects whiz-bangery / Where to learn more
Pixel Bender is so hot right now (having a Zoolander moment) and was a late addition to the WebDU agenda due to demand and interest from WebDU conference delegates. Geoff aptly titled the session “Mixing it up in the Pixel Bender”, but Pixel Bender can be much more than just blending (or is it bending) pixels. Either way, you can bend, warp, create, mixup, mashup not only pixels but all purpose mathematics as well, allowing you to perform complex calculations in a separate thread within Flash.
But it extends beyond Flash!
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Flash Catalyst learning resources
6 Jun2009
Since Adobe Flash Catalyst was officially announced at Adobe MAX 2008 I’ve kept a list of my favorite blog posts, videos, screencasts and links to downloads and tutorials. Hopefully these resources will help in getting you started.
For the developers, you’ll find some interesting reads on FXG and why we have gone down this path, as well as a great post on an approach towards design patterns when developing a single application for multiple screens.
If you have other links to tutorials, screencasts, skins or other Flash Catalyst related downloads/links I’d love to hear about it!
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- In: Flash Builder| Flash Catalyst| Flex
This session at Adobe AIR Camp introduced traditional HTML and JavaScript developers to the AIR SDK and how to use the the various binaries (ADL and ADT) to develop, test, and package desktop applications. The session included a basic introduction to the AIRAliases.js file and it’s importance when coding against the AIR runtime with JS.
What I find really helpful is the Adobe AIR Language Reference for JavaScript developers. This is a subset of the ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference and includes all the AIR specific features that you as a JavaScript developer can access within the AIR runtime.
Adobe Flex really is the development tool and platform of choice for developing desktop experiences on Adobe AIR. This slide deck was presented as part of a series of topics covered at Adobe AIR Camps throughout Australia and New Zealand. Take a look, download it, and share it! If anyone is interested in the demo files the Flex Builder project archive can be downloaded here.
The presentation introduces Flex Builder, the Flex framework and the AIR runtime by creating an application with a transparent window (thanks to Matt Voerman for providing the pretzel image!) that uses custom chrome and native window commands to move and close the application.
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AIR Camp keynote slides
4 Aug2008
Below are the keynote slides from the recent Adobe AIR Camps throughout Australia and New Zealand. Thanks to everyone who attended, and a special thanks to both Mark Blair and Matt Voerman who presented at the events as well, and to Mike Downey for presenting the keynote in Sydney while on his visit to WebDU 2008.
Over the next few days I’ll post slides and references to the rest of the content we covered at the AIR Camps.
- Building desktop applications with Adobe Flex
- Building desktop applications with HTML/JavaScript
- Deploying and updating your AIR applications
- Data intensive AIR applications
Be sure to take a look at the following links to some great applications. A real nice showcase of what’s possible!
Adobe AIR Showcase
Adobe AIR Marketplace
webDU 2008 presentations now available
16 Jul2008
It’s take some time, but finally here it is! I’ve made my presentations available via Share on Acrobat.com for everyone to view or download for their own use.
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