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Max 2007 - Presentation Resources Posted

Friday, October 5th, 2007

If you were looking for them, the presentation resources have been posted for David and Jun’s Max 2007 presentations on our labs site.

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What are we up to?

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

You can check out what we’re up to at RealEyes Media by checking out the RealEyes Lab site. We keep the latest happenings, projects, product releases and presentation information on the labs site so you can keep track of where we are and what we are doing.

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Commenting turned off?!

Friday, May 11th, 2007

So, looks like I’ve had my head in the sand for a while and didn’t realize that comments were turned off. We’ll they are back on now. Sorry ’bout that if you’ve tried to comment.

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I want to learn AJAX

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

Becuase I have tons of extra (ha!) time and incessant need to learn new things, I’m going to start a project that I’ve had in mind for a while: The project is a simple system to manage development items associated to multiple projects. Beacuse I want to learn about AJAX and its associated frameworks, I figured that I’d attempt the project while evaluating the following: script.aculo.us & Spry.

I’ll keep you updated on the progress, and any information/comments you can push my way will be greatly appreciated.

Also, I believe that the Rocky Mountain Adobe User’s Group is planning a presentation on AJAX in January.

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RMAUG Resources

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

As promised here are the links & resources for the “No More Flex Clones!” Presentation given last night’s at the RMAUG User Group Meeting:

Initial inspiration and source of much of the presentation content (This is where you can grab the source skin files):
Designing Flex 2 skins
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex_skins.html

Cool explorer app built by Adobe Consulting…nice place to start with Flex & CSS:
Flex 2 Style Explorer
http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex2StyleExplorer.html

Great set of captivate movies by Jesse Warden about getting a design into Flex.
Photoshop -> Fireworks -> Flex: End to end designing for Flex applications
http://www.jessewarden.com/flex/photoshop_fireworks_flex/

[Slides PDF]

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Qualcomm Updates its site

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Qualcomm updated its site recently. With the announced partnership with Adobe Flash Lite developers and the the BREW crowd should check it out:
QUALCOMM BREW | Home

Annual BREW Conference
The annual BREW Developer Awards are a prime opportunity to recognize
the best applications and services in wireless. Here’s your chance to
be recognized by your peers and industry leaders for your outstanding
contributions in developing mobile applications based on the BREW
solution. Winners will be revealed at an awards ceremony held at the
BREW 2007 Developers Conference in San Diego June 20 – 22, 2007. Submissions are due by Febuary 28th, 2007. QUALCOMM | BREW 2007 | Awards

BREW Gaming
Progress in wireless handset design and capabilities allow BREW to
offer a truly enticing 3D mobile gaming environment. BREW-enabled games
benefit from CDMA2000 1xEV-DO and other high speed networks to enable
downloading of graphically impressive games. Check out the BREW Gaming site.

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AS3.0 Cookbook…a good place to start and a fine resource.

Monday, December 11th, 2006

ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook by Lott, Schall & Peters is an excellent book. This book allows you to quickly jump into AS3 Programming, as well as a nice reference for those items that need to be resolved quickly during the development process.

Each topic is grouped to provide information on specific problems so they can be accessed quickly and easily. This allows for the book to be used as a reference so you don’t have to read it from cover to cover…you could if you wanted to however. Along with each topic, this book provides many useful code examples. Not only that, but the authors explain why they used the code approach they did for that example.

That brings up another bonus point for this book; its simplicity. The book is extremely easy to understand. It does not however gloss over the more intricate points of a and goes into great detail without overwhelming the reader.

A few chapters to jump into are:

Chapter 8, The BitmapData chapter:
This chapter introduces the BitmapData class that was introduced in Flash 8, but is extremely usefully and simple to implement in Flex 2/Flash Player 9.

Chapter 6, the Display List chapter:
This chapter contains critical information on the rendering model in Flash Player 9, which has been completely re-designed

Chapter 20, the chapter on XML:
This chapter includes great information on dealing with XML in AS3, which has changed significantly from AS2 (say hi to e4x). This book explains most things you’ll need to do with XML in AS3.

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Development Resource Listing

Friday, December 8th, 2006

I ran across this site today with a large list of development resources from Eclipse to Flash to PHP to Images and Color. Lost of stuff!!!
Check it out: The Web Developer’s List of Resources

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