Category Archives: Video

Upgrade your skills – video2brain can help!

Earlier this month video2brain released their new subscription plan that gets you access to no less than 139 courses (or 532 hours of video training) on a variety of topics. With the holidays coming up you might find you finally have a bit of time to work on your technology skills, so feel free to read more »

Adobe MAX sneak peek videos

I took a couple of videos with my Flip cam at the Adobe MAX awards and sneak peeks that I’d thought to share on the blog – Rainn Wilson was hilarious as a guest host and as usual there were some very good examples of technology the teams are experimenting with.

Mobile Development with Flash CS5.5 and Flash Builder 4.5 now available

I’m excited to see my first ever video training DVD for Adobe Press/Peachpit now available. Together with Joseph Labrecque we recorded around 7.5 hours of training on building mobile applications with Flash CS5.5 and Flash Builder 4.5 for Android and iOS devices. Special thanks to the great team at video2brain in Graz, Austria for their read more »

What have I been doing lately?

I realize I haven’t been blogging a lot about what I’ve been up to in the last few months so thought I’d better get a post out and share some of those things with you. Cocoon P2P The open source Cocoon P2P library has been released and got Dirk Eismann on board as a contributor read more »

Mobile application development in Flash Builder 4.5

Flash Builder 4.5 lets you set up mobile applications with multiple views, passing around data and view persistence in a matter of minutes.

TWiT Live Desktop 2.2 goes open source

It took me a long time to finally get round to it, but have updated the TWiT Live Desktop AIR application and released it as version 2.2. I’ve also gone ahead and made it open source under an MIT license, so feel free to check out the code and I’m open to having contributors to read more »

Flash Media Playback – WordPress plugin

Last night I started writing a plugin to easily embed the Flash Media Playback video component on WordPress blogs and its now ready for you all to use! Flash Media Playback is a free media player based on the Open Source Media Framework and hosted by Adobe so its ideal for bloggers to use. You read more »

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart comments on Apple

Flash across screens and devices

Exciting times if you’re working with Flash Platform technologies, the idea of deploying the same codebase to multiple screens is really taking shape and I for one couldn’t be happier. AIR already allowed us to go cross platform with desktop apps (Windows, Mac and Linux), obviously the Flash Player allows the same across browsers and read more »

Flash Player 10.1 performance on mobile

Recently James Ward, Technical Evangelist at Adobe, did a video showing performance of Flex running on the Google Nexus One in Flash Player 10.1. Consider that myth about Flash Player performance not being up to scratch for use on a certain mobile device well and truly busted!

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