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 BETAS,EXAMPLES,FEATURED,FLASH PLATFORM,FLASH PLAYER 10,FLEX IDE,GENERAL,TUTORIALS         4 comments

Yesterday a student from my class ask me to help him solve a problem that was getting when testing Tom Krcha’s example files of his Multicast Streaming tutorial. Here’s the fix.

 ADOBE,BETAS,FLASH BUILDER,FLASH CATALYST,FLEX IDE,FLEX SDK,FRAMEWORKS         1 comment

Adobe Flash Builder 4  (formely  Flex Builder 4 ) and Adobe Flash Catalyst are out on Adobe Labs going to download and try them out before posting a proper review meanwhile more info on Ryan Stewart’s blog and Andrew Shorten’s Tutorial

Flash Builder 4 delivers a long list of new …

 ADOBE,COMPONENTS,FLASH CS4,FLASH IDE,FLASH MEDIA SERVER,FLASH VIDEO,FLEX IDE         No comments

Adobe released an update to the FLVPlayback component (v2.5.0.15) for Flash CS4 and Flex 3.
Excerpt from  Kevin’s blog. Go there for more detailed information
Today(22-may-09) we released two free tools; the new DVRCast application for Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5, and an update to FLVPlayback component. You can find them both …

 FLASH,FLASH BUILDER,FLASH PLATFORM,FLASH PLAYER,FLEX IDE,FLEX SDK,FRAMEWORKS,SDK         No comments

So it finally happened  the IDE(Integrated development environment) known till now as Flex Builder it going to be    renamed as  Flash Builder , why ?  To me it’s easy It makes a lot more sense,  yes you can use the Flex Framework and yes you can use also build AIR …

 ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0,ADOBE DEVELOPER CONNECTION,FLASH PLATFORM,FLEX IDE,FLEX SDK         No comments

Adobe teams up with Facebook and releases new Adobe Developer Connection (Adobe Flash Platform and Facebook Platform ).
So if You where thinking on how to start developing  Flash Applications for Facebook you will find this site very useful.
It includes various how to start videos , useful information and …

 AIR,BETAS,FLASH CS4,FLASH PLAYER 10,FLEX IDE,FRAMEWORKS         No comments

Adobe Labs has released the beta of Text Layout Framework for Adobe® Flash® Player 10 and Adobe AIR® 1.5.   The Text Layout Framework is an extensible library, built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated …

 ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0,API,FLASH IDE,FLEX IDE,GOOGLE ANALYTICS         14 comments

A new API for using  Google Analytics Tracking in Flash/Flex projects this API is developed in ActionScript 3.0 and can be used as a component or called in your ActionScript code, Google Analytics Tracking for Adobe Flash seems to solve a lot of troubles and the needed workarounds for making …

 BETAS,COCOMO,FLEX IDE         2 comments

There is a new Technology  available at Adobe Labs Codename “Cocomo” is a Platform as a Service that allows Flex developers to easily add real-time social capabilities into their RIA (rich Internet applications). Comprised of both Flex-based client components and a hosted services infrastructure, Cocomo allows you to build real-time, …

 ADOBE MAX,AIR,FLASH CATALYST,FLASH PLATFORM,FLEX IDE         No comments

Adobe announced yesterday at Adobe MAX the advancements to the Adobe Flash Platform, a complete system of integrated tools, frameworks, clients and servers to develop Web apps, content and video that runs across various OS  and devices.
Some of the highlights of this announce are the preview of Flash Catalyst( formely …

 ADOBE OS,FLEX IDE,FLEX SDK,OPEN SOURCE         No comments

Gumbo is the code name of the next version of Adobe Flex and new information about it has been made available on the Gumbo Page of the Flex Open Source site.
Some of the highlights on the next version of Flex include the following:
Themes of the Release
Design in mind
A framework for …