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AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 betas on Adobe Labs

2009-11-17T04:30:47Z

Today, Adobe released beta versions of their two major runtimes so that developers can test and play with them. Todays beta's are still missing a few of the features, but these will arrive soon. We talked to the senior product managers at Adobe ahead of the launch to see if we could find out more than what's known already such as the new Peer to Peer features.

ActionScript 3 Development Task Contest (AS3DTC)

2009-11-11T08:23:28Z

It's been a while since there was a fun and informal Actionscript contest as those that existed have kind of died out. Here's one with a twist! Adobe evangelist Mike Chambers worked on a piece of code this weekend and wondered how others would go about solving the same problem. Why not make a competition out of it?

TAC interview - learn to organize a conference from the pro’s

2009-10-12T16:53:53Z

The Actionscript Conference (TAC) kicked off in the middle of September and was a big success. It is a community based conference and we wanted to learn more about how one goes about to organize a community conference and make sure it's a success. In this interview, TAC's Lionel Low interviews conference organizer Hu Shunjie who explains The BIG 5's of putting on an event like this.

Flash for the IPhone!

2009-10-05T18:20:41Z

At the Adobe MAX keynote the announcement everyone was hoping and waiting for - Flash on the iPhone is coming! It won't be Flash Player in the browser, but you will be able to use Flash to author iPhone applications that runs natively on the iPhone.

New Flash Player info and Beta releases on Adobe Labs

2009-10-05T07:37:57Z

As a warm-up to the Adobe MAX conference, Adobe today released details about Flash Player 10.1 for desktop and mobile and updated beta versions of Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst, Coldfusion, the Flex 4 SDK and Livecycle Data Services.

Flash on the beach 2009 - Day 3

2009-09-23T16:30:25Z

Even after two days of sessions and parties there was still an impressive turnout for the 9am sessions on day 3 at Flash on the beach. The day was filled with great sessions, but "the bomb" was certainly Ralph Hauwert announcing that he has quit the Papervision3D team to pursue personal goals. This means that PapervisionX is up in the air, but not entirely.

Flash on the beach 2009 - Day 2

2009-09-22T22:18:18Z

Despite the official party at Audio and the usual follow up at The Old Ship Hotel, the Brighton Dome was almost full for the first session of Day 2. A brand new session type in the form of 3 minute elevator pitches proved really successful and Joa Ebert had everyone cheering at the Actionscript optimization tools he built while being sick.

Flash on the beach 2009 - Day 1

2009-09-22T10:22:45Z

There's something very special about Flash On the Beach and Brighton. For more than a month I've seen tweets from people that say that they're counting the days and looking forward to being in Brighton again. This years conference was kicked off Mariachi-style and the Adobe keynote was really worth catching. The annual pilgrimage of the Flash Community had started!

Flash Platform Services announced

2009-09-21T18:56:41Z

Today Adobe announced Flash Platform Services a brand new business area that aims to make things easier for Flash and Flex developers. The first service out enables easy sale, sharing, deployment and tracking of content across Facebook, MySpace, AIR applications and mobile.

Adobe Flash CS5 sneaks from FOTB09

2009-09-21T14:46:13Z

Rumors had been flying around for a few days before the conference that we were going to see some sneak peaks at this year's Adobe keynote, and that's exactly what happened. Richard Galvan and Mark Anders, "Senior" Principle Scientist at Adobe, were back again this year with an update on the Flash platform and a sneak peek on Flash CS5 and the new Flash Mobile features.

Away3D Lite 1.0 released

2009-09-11T12:32:28Z

The Away3D team just released a brand new 3D engine that is very compact in file size (only 25Kb), is blazing fast and still fully featured. The new engine pushes the new capabilities in Flash Player 10 to the fullest and is up to 10 times faster than existing Open Source 3D engines for Flash!

Autumn Conference Roundup 2009

2009-09-10T08:14:21Z

Autumn is conference season and a great time to go pick up some inspiration. With the days getting colder, shorter and darker, how about a trip to Singapore, Brighton, Cairo, Wellington, Bangkok or Los Angeles?

FreeSpin3D CS4 Review

2009-09-07T14:04:18Z

So you want to do 3D in Flash, but actionscript isn't your cup of tea? FreeSpin3D is a 3D engine made for the rest of us. It has some limitations, but these also make it much easier to use for the average Flash designer. In this review, we take the latest version for a (free)spin to explore what is possible using this Flash CS4 extension.

Passing parameters to Flash using Javascript

2009-08-28T12:36:51Z

Want to build something that responds to user input or a custom URL? This tutorial will show you how to use Javascript to pick up parameters sent to a SWF file using only Javascript.

Using Pixel Bender to calculate information

2009-08-13T16:28:29Z

Pixel Bender can be used for calculations of many specific cases. Using Pixel Bender can increase your application's performance as Pixel Bender runs on a faster and separate thread than the Flash Player. In this article I cover how to use pixel bender for calculations as well as show you tutorials of building a real-life application.