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Adobe Illustrator CS3 for Absolute Beginners Overview - Part 5A: Panels Description

Welcome to Adobe Illustrator CS3 for Absolute Beginners Series. This is not a tutorial but a guided tour of the workings and descriptions of Illustrator CS3. I hope you will enjoy this brilliant software as much as I do. Learning about this software will not be an overnight event, it takes time and patience to master this wonderful creative software. It will bring frustration and headache but also joy and elation. Stick with it, the end product will be well worth it. The Adobe Illustrator CS3 For Absolute Beginners Series: Adobe Illustrator CS3 for Absolute Beginners - Part 1: Overview (translate)

Flash CS4: The 3D Rotation Tool

As Tom Green mentioned in his end-of-2008 video "A Quick Tour of the Flash CS4 Interface," the latest version of Flash introduces a handful of eye-popping new tools. These are covered in detail in our latest collaborative effort, Foundation Flash CS4 for Designers (ISBN: 1430210931, by Tom Green and David Stiller, published by friends of ED). In this series, we'll be sharing a number of excerpts from this book, in hopes of inspiring you to experiment with the new stuff. Let's start with the 3D tools. In terms of visual cool factor, the 3D Rotation tool is sure to please. (translate)

...but can Evel jump it?

Happy New Year to all! It's time for my first bold tech prediction* of 2009 - this year's "....but will it blend?" will be "...but can Evel jump it?"Get your suggestions in - the more surreal, the better!* Disclaimer: OK, OK, so for "bold tech prediction", read "blatant attempt to spread a meme and drive some traffic to my mate's site" :) (translate)

Enterprise RIA Series - part 2: The role of an RIA in the enterprise

This is part 2 in a series of posts publishing extracts from a forthcoming Adobe whitepaper - see the first entry in the series for background information and links to the other posts in the series. Something which I have found to be true in most, if not all, of the companies I have worked at, [...] (translate)

Getting to Know Mr. Wizard (Article Reprint)

This is a reprint with permission of an article that was originally published in the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update Volume 2 Issue 4 in May 2008 (click here to subscribe).What was life like before wizards? Can you even remember? It seems that nowadays you won't find a coding practice that can't be distilled into a multi-step question and answer process. However, we know from movies and mythology that not all wizards are good. Look at Gandalf and Saruman. Or, a wizard can be just a bunch of smoke and mirrors with some old man behind a curtain, as in Oz. This (translate)

Swiz example based on Adobe AIR and SQLite

About two months ago Sönke Rohde, a good friend of me and a very active contributor of the Swiz framework, told me about his experiences using Swiz and he recommended highly Swiz as a framework which seems brutally simple to use. For all the people out there who are not ... (translate)

Flash Lite Services API on Nokia devices from the FN Wiki

Thanks Alessandro to post the Flash Lite Services API on Nokia S60 5th Edition devices on his Forum Nokia Blog, the article listed the Forum Nokia Flash Lite Wiki site describing how to implement some of the Flash Lite API services: CS001257 - Listing installed applications in Flash Lite CS001256 - Launching an installed application in Flash Lite CS001255 [...] (translate)

Flash Lite 3.1 update for Adobe Device Central CS4

Via Flash Mobile Blog the new Online Device Library added 59 new profiles including the Sony Ericsson C905 and devices like the N96, N85 and N79 from Nokia. You can get more information to here (translate)

Drawing boxes on the fly on Box2D

Box2D is getting more and more popular among Flash developers, but it still lacks of adeguate tutorials and documentation about making games with it. Andrew McGrath from Gamersgarden released a great tutorial about drawing boxes on the fly on Box2D. Every detail of the script is fully commented, so you won’t miss anything, and you will get [...] (translate)

Adobe Air for Linux is Available Now

Adobe Air Linux edition is released. You can download it from here. Some ideas about it ;As of today there have only been releases of Adobe AIR for Windows and Mac but Adobe is committed to also delivering a version for Linux. This is great news for developers like me who use Linux as their primary desktop operating system. Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch said in a statement: “This could enable a whole new frontier of applications for Linux. We’re actually looking for Linux users to help us test it.” He said that the Linux version of AIR is currently in (translate)

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