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Archive | August, 2008
ActionScript 3.0 has been out there for quite some time now. While most of you have already moved on to AS3.0, we are aware that some people in the community haven’t yet made the switch. Lee Brimelow just published an excellent article on Devnet that talks about the 6 best reasons to use AS3.0.
Flash On The Beach is only 5 weeks and 5 days away and (as always) the community is really buzzing about the impressive speaker list that includes Flash-rockstars like Erik Natzke, Grant Skinner, Joa Ebert and Branden Hall to name a few. Like last year, FOTB is likely going to sell out a few weeks before the event and if you didn’t get your tickets yet, you might want to hurry and get them now. AND/OR you may want to take your chance and enter this competition.
Earlier today, ScaleNine.com launched the “Skin To Win Challenge” sponsored by EffectiveUI and Adobe.
Behind the scenes of Adobe TV recordings
The Adobe TV crew is currently in Europe to record a bunch of sessions for Adobe TV presented by European Adobeans. We started today in Amsterdam and I thought I would give you a sneak peak behind the scenes of Adobe TV. The crew completely transformed a hotel room in to a high quality green screen studio. I don’t have an exact date for when these segments will be published but it’s obvious I’ll blog about my first appearance on Adobe TV ;-)
The future of Flash Player, Flex, AIR, Thermo and more
Just last week, Mark Anders did the keynote at 360Flex in San Jose where he talked about the future of the Flash Player, Flex 4, AIR 1.5, Thermo, FXG and much much more. Here’s the video from that keynote. It is quite lengthy but there’s a lot of really good info in it. Via Greg Wilson.
Photoshop.com for mobile devices
Today we announced the latest addition to the Photoshop.com familiy, Photoshop.com for mobile. This Flash based mobile application allows you to easily upload, view and share photos using your existing Photoshop.com account.
The beta will run on a number of Windows Mobile devices with more to come later this year.
I’ve always been a great supporter for Flash on mobile devices, so this news is pretty exciting and only points to more great things to come.
Bill Perry (our mobile and devices evangelist) has more info on his blog.
ActionScript 3.0 is not going to kill you
First of all an apology. I didn’t check my YouTube inbox for a while and only just saw there are some messages in there. This one by Matt Maxwell is one you have to see:
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I really love it when people get creative even if it’s only to rant a bit. Don’t worry Matt… AS3.0 is not going to kill you ;-) To get you started, check out this article which has some helpful links to help you with your migration to AS3.0 but deep down I actually hope you get stuck even more ’cause I really enjoyed your videos! ;-)
6 reasons to use ActionScript 3.0
ActionScript 3.0 has been out there for quite some time now. While most of you have already moved on to AS3.0, we are aware that some people in the community haven’t yet made the switch. Lee Brimelow just published an excellent article on Devnet that talks about the 6 best reasons to use AS3.0.
I’m certain that you will be convinced about the power of AS3.0 after reading this article and that you’ll be eager to learn more about AS3.0. The links below will help you take your first steps in AS3.0 and help you understand the differences between AS2.0 and AS3.0:
- Tips for learning ActionScript 3.0 (Emmy Huang – Devnet)
- ActionScript 2.0 migration table (Language reference)
- ActionScript 3.0 with Flash CS3 (Senocular)
- ActionScript 3.0 workshop slides (Grant Skinner)
Photoshop your way to Flash On The Beach
Flash On The Beach is only 5 weeks and 5 days away and (as always) the community is really buzzing about the impressive speaker list that includes Flash-rockstars like Erik Natzke, Grant Skinner, Joa Ebert and Branden Hall to name a few. Like last year, FOTB is likely going to sell out a few weeks before the event and if you didn’t get your tickets yet, you might want to hurry and get them now. AND/OR you may want to take your chance and enter this competition.
The European platform evangelism team is giving away 6 (in total) conference passes (a £499/€633 value) to Flash On The Beach 08. The only thing you have to do is get creative! Photograph or Photoshop yourself on the beach showing off your love for Flash, Flex, AIR, ColdFusion, … Upload your creation here before September 8, 2008 and each of us will pick our favorite entry. That person wins a full pass to Flash On The Beach 08. We will announce the winners on our blogs on September 12th! (more…)
Create a skin to win a ticket to MAX, a MacBook Air and a bundle of software
Earlier today, ScaleNine.com launched the “Skin To Win Challenge” sponsored by EffectiveUI and Adobe.
Juan Sanchez‘ website ScaleNine.com has an impressive collection of CSS skins for Flex applications. With this contest, he’s looking for new additions to this collection and the top three entries win some really cool prizes including a MacBook Air (with SSD!), tickets to MAX, CS3 Master Collection and Flex Builder.
The contest website has everything you need to get started, even if you’re completely new to Flex skinning! Andrew Shorten created a couple of tutorial videos to help you on your way to create your winning Flex skin!
I’m really looking forward to see the skins that come out of this contest. You have until October 10th to submit your entry so you better start now!
World’s biggest Olympics streaming project uses Flash
CCTV in China is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) television broadcasters in the world. They also own the online video rights to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games for mainland China and Macau. That’s over 200 million potential online viewers making this by far the world’s biggest Olympics streaming project. Next to the 3800 hours of pure Olympics coverage, they will make an additional 1200 hours of own Olympics-related content including full event replays, highlights, features, interviews and encore packages. That’s a massive 5000 hours of Olympics content available to more than 200 million users! To deliver all this content in an engaging and hassle-free application, they picked Flash and Flex to get the job done.
The application itself not only features a massive library of online video but it also has live Olympic results, statistics, comprehensive bios, rules and expert analysis from CCTV’s Olympic media team, as well as social networking features that will enable fans to share aspects of their Olympic experience with friends.
Perhaps with this project the myth around Flash and Flash video not being able to handle large-scale projects is finally busted.
Links:
http://www.cctvolympics.com/
Adobe press release
UPDATE: Additionally, the IOC announced that it will launch an online channel to broadcast the Olympics to 77 territories. The video-on-demand channel will be available on YouTube meaning that the official Olympics channel is also using Flash technology.
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