I think this morning I finally figured it out the real intentions of Apple’s denial of Flash on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Apple is secretly in cahoots with Adobe to get Flash on every possible device in the world. You think I am wrong? Perhaps you need to look around Mobile World [...]
Yesterday Lee Brimelow posted a new tutorial on GoToandLearn.com about Multitouch gestures on the mac. I watched the video and was amazed at how quickly he built a really cool little demo. So I fired up my Flash IDE and started into trying to duplicate his efforts. But I quickly ran into [...]
This month PDX RIA we are talking about Multi-touch application development on the Flash Platform. Our very own multitouch-extrordinaire Matt Legrand will be showing us all the fun new things we can do with AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1
Matt has been playing with multitouch since before it was easy, so you can rest [...]
Wow, I can’t believe its conference season already. And the first is almost upon us! The next 360|Flex event is being held in San Jose, March 7-10. I love the 360 conferences because they offer such an intimate gathering. Well intimate being you and a couple hundred other rabid Flex and AIR junkies! [...]
I was on vacation last week when the iPad got announced. I knew the day was coming and I found that I just didnt have the pull to put down my Bahama Mamma poolside and try to find out what the new life altering amazing device was. So it wasnt until this week [...]
Yesterday was a very exciting day. The second beta of the Adobe AIR 2.0 framework was release.
Features of AIR 2.0 include:
Enhanced support for interacting with printers (beta 2)
Support for TLS/SSL socket communication (beta 2)
Support for the detection of mass storage devices.
Advanced networking capabilities like secure sockets, UDP support, and the ability to listen on sockets.
Support [...]
If you are on a mac and had tried to use the Release Notes instructions to update your sdk, you may have been led astray. I found that the instructions were not just misleading they were wrong. I tried to get them updated by sending a couple emails and posting on the forums [...]
Wow, I had no idea this feature existed. Christian Cantrell posted this morning about using Labels in actionscript 3 to control the break and continue statements of nested loops. What a great feature!
Check out Christians post here: Labels in ActionScript 3
I see that an update to the rails framework got posted. Rails 2.3.5 is out in the wild and you can see what is new here. I also read about a new ruby framworks called Rango. Rango favors simplicity over giving you an opinion on how your code should be written. Perhaps I [...]
Make sure you come on out this thursday ( the 19th of November) to hear about The Joys of Flex 4: The Good, the New, and the Odd…
Josh Noble will be joining is to get us up to speed on all that is new in Flex 4.
Meeting is at PCC Sylvania in TCB 209. [...]
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