Posted on June 30th, 2008 by brad
I’m working in the Australian education system as a Flash developer. Recently I’ve been reviewing the processes that we go through when planning and developing a Flash application. Education projects have quite a few differences to commercial work, and generally in education the development process takes a lot longer than it should. Improving the overall [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by roger
Adobe Acrobat 9 is out now, and you can buy it from:
Australia: https://store3.adobe.com/cfusion/store/index.cfm?store=OLS-AU&nr=0
New Zealand: http://adobe.com/go/buyonline_nz
Acrobat 9 allows you to build engaging PDF presentations that help you to communicate with confidence and style.
Bring together PDF, Flash, Office documents, images and many other file types into a single PDF container that is presented with a [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by roger
Recently Launched Player Now Features 15,000 Pieces of Content, Including New Shows on CBS and a Selection of MTV Networks’ Most Popular Shows
SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 19, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that since its release on April 9, 2008, the new Adobe® Media Player now features 15,000 pieces of content with more [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by roger
If you have an existing site that you want optimize for search engines, one way is to use the .htaccess file in your root directory – normally in /public_html/.htaccess
Say your existing site displays a product based off a product ID, for example:
http://www.mycoolwebsite.com/product.php?product_id=12
and you would prefer to have the url look like:
http://www.mycoolwebsite.com/really-cool-usb-missle-launcher_pr12.html
Open the .htaccess file and [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by roger
The latest update from Adobe, Adobe AIR 1.1 was release. The two main features you will notice are improved support for localized and internationalized applications (AIR runtime supports Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish) and an update framework that lets you easily update installed AIR applications. It also has support for [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by roger
Pre-requisites
Adobe Flash / Flex / Dreamweaver CS3 already installed on your computer.
Adobe AIR player needs to be installed on your computer, you can get it from:
Download: Adobe AIR Player
http://get.adobe.com/air
Adobe AIR SDK needs to be installed on your computer, you can get it from:
Download: Adobe AIR SDK
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/tools/sdk/
Dreamweaver CS3 / AJAX + Adobe AIR + PC or [...]
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Posted on June 19th, 2008 by brad
I’ve been working in the government education field as a Flash developer for a while now, so I’ve decided to write a series of articles on what I do, this being the first.
I guess the best place to start is a general overview of some of the things that really effect what we can do [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by brad
Back in 2005, Spore came as one of the most mind blowing game announcements ever, and I’ve been hanging out of it ever since. Now Spore is finally on the road to release, with the launch of the Spore Creature Creator. The Creature Creator is a editing/building application lets you build a creature using the [...]
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Posted on June 16th, 2008 by roger
Check out this awesome code library. It allows you to transform images and textfields in Flash runtime.
This class works with the TransformItem class to give the user the ability to scale, rotate, and/or move any MovieClip on the stage using an intuitive interface (similar to most modern drawing applications). When the user clicks on the [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2008 by brad
A new gaming community, Nonoba, has just opened their doors to a beta of their multiplater Flash API:
Some of the features that Nonoba boasts are:
Easy Multiplayer Development
Serverside code:
When you develop a game for the Nonoba Game Server, your code and your game logic runs on the server, which gives great response times, security [...]
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