by Harald
July LAFlash Meeting – FDT 4 World Tour & Community Member Show Case
July LAFlash Meeting – FDT 4 World Tour & Community Member Show Case
Wednesday July 13, 2011 at 7:00P – 9:30P PST
At the Rich Media Institute and Almer/Blank – 525 Venezia Avenue, Venice CA 90291
Join us on Adobe Connect Pro: http://bit.ly/laflashlive
FREE EVENT | FREE ( LIMITED ) PARKING | NO RSVP | FREE FOOD & REFRESHMENTS courtesy of Artisan Creative!
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// Meeting Agenda
- - 7:00 pm Welcoming by Omar and Harald
- - 7:15 pm LAFlash Members Showcase: Brad Wallace and shaRon sachse
- - 8:00 pm FDT 4 World Tour with Powerflasher Bruno Fonzi and Steven Sacks
- - 9:00 pm General announcements for the members of LAFlash
- - 9:15 pm Raffle, Networking, and Beer!
// Welcoming by Omar and Harald
// LAFlash Members Showcase: Brad Wallace and shaRon sachse
effects/animation and dark electronic music are his current ruminations. And now apps! The Dirty Kitchen Cooking Timer App: http://www.bradwallacedesign.com/dkTimer/
Check out his portfolio at www.bradwallacedesign.com and his scary music at www.myspace.com/procedure1.
She got her start working with video at the local cable station in the early 8o’s producing, editing and teaching. Today, she does front-end development incorporating video, animation and rich interactive experiences on multiple screens.
Extending creativity to the new innovative handheld devices shaRon is also building apps. Come see the NEW Blackberry PlayBook tablet and the apps built. We will talk about the designing and developing process using Flash and beta hardware. shaRon’s portfolio can be seen at www.shaRon-folio.com
Tweets:@PCartiste.
Linked-in: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonsachse
// FDT 4 World Tour with Powerflasher Bruno Fonzi and Steven Sacks
The Powerflasher would also love to hear back from the community on how they can improve their software in the future. So, this is a great opportunity for you to come with your list of features, tweaks and other improvement ideas you would love to have in a future FDT release. Bruno will be happy to discuss your ideas with you. The presentation will include:
- - FDT Tips and Tricks
- - Show and discuss on some new Sneak Peak features
- - Get your feedback and prioritize features
- - Q&A
Do not expect a sales pitch, we like to hear your experience with your current IDE, what we can do to make your workflow, team and coding more efficient. We want to learn from your needs and share our know how as an Agency and Software developer in exchange. It is an opportunity to learn something both ways and, why not … find the time to have few drinks together after work!”
// General Announcements
// Raffle, Networking, Food and Beer!
// Upcoming Events
- - LAFlash August Meeting: TBD
- - LAFlash September Meeting with R Blank
- - October 1-5 Adobe MAX in Los Angeles
// Links
- Link to Adobe Connect Room to attend live: http://bit.ly/laflashlive
- Follow us on Twitter: @laflashorg
by Omar
5 Things to Improve Flash Catalyst
I’ve been meaning to post some of these points for a while after having finished a few projects where skin implementation was done using Flash Catalyst. While the Flex Spark architecture along with Flash Catalyst has really improved designer to developer workflows there are still things that are left to be desired from Flash Catalyst. I must point out though that despite these flaws/annoyances Flash Catalyst has had mostly positive affects on development for our team at Almer/Blank. So without further adieu, here are five things I think would really improve Flash Catalyst. Read the rest of this entry →
by Omar
Android Flash Player OTA Updates
During last week Adobe started to update Flash Player plugin installs on Android phones automatically over the air, that is, without the phone’s owner specifically clicking on the Update button.
A couple of people asked me how to set up the phone to allow the updates, as it is not on by default and the phone’s owner must allow the updates to happen automatically. First open the Market application and tap on the Downloads menu. In this menu, find the Flash Player listing.
Market Downloads
Once you find the listing tap on it to see the details for Flash Player. At the top there is a checkbox for Allow Automatic updating. If you turn this on your phone will automatically update Flash Player when it finds a new version available.
Flash Player Allow Automatic Updating
by Omar
AS3 only project modified ObjectUtil
4:22 pm in Blog, Code, Tutorials by Omar
After working in Flex for so long I’ve grown used to some of the great utilities that Flex provides. One of the classes I think is very useful during debugging is mx.utils.ObjectUtil. Using “ObjectUtil.toString()” you can very easily trace out objects that you want to inspect the contents of. So I took the mx.utils.ObjectUtil class and modified it to remove the dependencies on Flex framework classes so that it works in AS3 projects only. Not only in AS3 projects in Flex Builder and Flash Builder but in the Flash IDE as well.
by Omar
AS3 Project Preloader in Flash Builder
8:39 pm in Blog, Tutorials by Omar
I recently had a couple of friends ask me some questions about adding preloaders for AS3 projects, so I decided to write up some sample code for adding a preloader to an AS3 project. Read the rest of this entry →