I’ve been quiet for quite some time now. There are 2 reasons for that. The first one is simply because I have been busy on a couple of projects and just didn’t find the time to write another blog post. The second reason is that I wanted to wait and see what would happen with [...]
Archive for AIR
I’ll be speaking at gotoAndSki();
Tonight I got one of the “coolest” emails you can get: I’ve been invited to give a session at gotoAndSki(); Switzerland on January 26th, 27th and 28th, 2012, which is really awesome. Unfortunately I haven’t been to this conference before, but I’ve heard very nice things about it and let’s face it, skiing during the [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, ColdFusion, Conference, Flex, Mobile /
Tags: conference, gotoAndSki, Switzerland
No more hacking PlayBook AIR apps
Yesterday I received yet another monstrous update for the BlackBerry PlayBook. While on the one hand it is awesome that BlackBerry are investing so much time and effort to make things better, but a 250MB update every 2 weeks or so is a little too much for my taste. So far, I was quite happy [...]
Prototyping: ActionScript’s best kept secret.
As a developer, once in a while you discover something new that makes you go ”How come nobody ever told me about this and why do I only find this out NOW ? ” Last year, when I discovered that a Function in AS3 is also a class and can be used as a a [...]
Category: Actionscript 2, ActionScript 3, AIR, Flash, Flash Builder /
Tags: ActionScript, ActionScript 3, Flash, prototyping
Blitting a Particle transition between two images.
Sometimes when you are experimenting around with flash, you’ll notice that things can get a little laggy when you put too many things on the stage and try to move them around at the same time. The Display List is a very fast and easy way to handle the way things are displayed on the [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, Flash /
Tags: ActionScript, ActionScript 3, bitmap, Bitmapdata, blitting
Detecting the network connection type with Flex 4.5
As you may already be aware of, Flex 4.5 is the next version of Flex that is also optimised for mobile development. That means that you can create compelling Rich Internet Applications with the Flex framework and deploy them on mobile Android devices, as well as the BlackBerry PlayBook (and iOS devices in the near [...]
“Molehill” 3D Flash API is available in public beta
So, now it’s finally here, the moment we’ve all been waiting for for quite some time now: Molehill has launched in a public beta version. You can download it from the brand new Incubator subsite on labs.adobe.com. Wait, what? Molehill, Incubator? What are you talking about? Allright, so you don’t know about the Molehill codename [...]
Congratz to the new and renewed ACCs and ACPs
Today Adobe announced their new list of Adobe Community Professionals for 2011. And of course I am very happy to be part of this small community. But next to that list, they have launched a new list, namely the Adobe Community Champions. For those of you who don’t know what these lists are or who [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, Audition 3, Captivate, ColdFusion, Connect, Dreamweaver, Flash, Flex, LiveCycle Data Services, Mobile /
Tags: Adobe Community Champions, Adobe Community Professional
More fun with Azoth: “Sierpinski Yourself”
You need a webcam to enjoy this blogpost to the fullest This post is a brief addendum of my previous post about Azoth. I was so excited about Azoth’s performance in my previous post that I didn’t take enough time to come up with a more practical example. Like I said last time, ByteArray operations [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, Flash /
Tags: ActionScript, ActionScript 3, aztoh, bytearray, Flash, Optimization, sierpinski, webcam
Drawing charts in a Flex 4.5 mobile application
So, I started working on my first AIR on Android application that’s on the Android market. It’s called SolarLogger and it’s a small application that allows you to monitor your solar panel installation using a SolarLog device. If you’ve been here a while ago, you may remember that I had such a solarlogger component in [...]
