Oct/090
Flash Lite 2.0 Content Optimization
Recently i came across a nice and very useful article on "Content Optimization for Flash Lite 2.0" written by Josh Ulm.
This article gives us some nice tips to create fast and lean content for Flash to run on Mobile Devices using Flash Lite 2.0. It was real eye opener for me to know such basic techniques while creating content for Mobile Devices.
Check this out and i am sure this will teach you some nice techniques...
Oct/090
Win a Copy of ‘Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book’!
This week Activetuts+ is giving away a copy of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book!
A great resource for grasping the fundamentals, this book will take you through 10 lessons to cover the basics of Flash CS4 Professional. At the end of the week they will randomly select one lucky winner.
To enter, all you've gotta do is comment on this page!!!
Oct/090
FLEX SDK Coding Conventions and Best Practices
ADOBE FLEX is now has become a standard for Rich Internet Application (RIA) development. FLEX has got a vast User groups and vast developer community.
For FLEX coding, we will use ActionScript3.0. Its better to know what are the best practices and Coding conventions to be followed while creating or developing any Web Application using FLEX.
ADOBE Opensource has provided us with some nice Coding Conventions and Best practices to be followed while creating any Flex Application or component. Following these conventions we can make our souce code look Professional, well-organized and consistent.
It talks about the conventions to be followed while:
- Naming
- Class Names
- Event Names
- Method Names
- Interface Names
- Property (Variable, Getter/Setter) Names etc.
- Language Usage
- Expressions
- Statements
- Declarations etc
- File Organization
- Package Statements
- import statements
- Class Initialization
- Class resource etc
- Formatting etc
- Indentaions
- Line Width
- ArrayIndexing etc
Check out Adobe OpenSource for complete article and i am sure it will be useful to all Flex Coders and Web Developers.
Oct/090
Learning ActionScript 3
If you want to learn ActionScript 3 in Flash Cs4, i came across a nice article posted by Doug Winnie at Adobe Devnet. This will be a great startup for beginners of Flash.
In this article, you can find Video Tutorials, Sample Files etc for all the following topics:
- Introduction
- Working with code in Flash
- Working with objects
- Working with functions
- Performing math
- Working with events
- Building a sample application
Goahead and have fun ActionScripting....
Oct/091
Skinning Flash Components
Flash Components are used when and where Flash is applied. Flash has good amount of components for many purposes varying from buttons to datagrids.
To make these components look even nicer according to your needs and theme, you can skin and style these components.
Skinning is basically changing the look of the component. From Flash CS3, its became even easier to change the skins of the components.
Oct/090
Flash or Silverlight? Which suits your needs the best?
Adobe Flash as you all know is in use for years now for designing any web applicaitons or content. With Silverlight1.0 released, there is a debate started in web developers on whether to choose Flash or Silverlight.
Even after release Silverlight is facing a difficulty in capturing the market because of the coverage of Flash present already. Still we cannot deny that there are some features in Silverlight like search engine optimization, which designers and developers wanted to see in Flash for so long.
Actually speaking, which technology to use mostly depends on your requirements, on what capabilities you need to develop your application etc.
Smashing Magazine has posted an article discussing the technical differences between Flash and Silverlight.
The articles concludes as:
| Features | Flash | Silverlight |
|---|---|---|
| Animation | better | |
| File Size | better | |
| Scripting | better | |
| Video/Audio | better | |
| Sound Processing | better | |
| Accessibility | better | |
| Platform Compatibility | better | |
| Text Representation/SEO | better | |
| Supported Image Formats | better | |
| Socket Programming | better | |
| Webcam Support | better | |
| Deployment | better | |
| Windows Application | better | |
| Media Streaming | better |
Check out this article and use appropriate technology which suits your needs and requirements.
Oct/090
Free Flex Builder 3 for CS4 Users
As a Creative Suite 4 Web Premium or Master Collection customer, you are eligible to use Adobe Flex Builder 3 at no additional cost. You will need to first download a trial version of Flex Builder 3 and then activate Standard edition using the serial number we email to you.
Flex Builder 3 serial numbers are only available to customers who have purchased a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium or Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection on or after September 15, 2009.
You need to provide your CS4 Serial Number in a request form. If your Serial number is valid and meets all the conditions, *Flex Build 3 Standard Edition Serial number will be emailed to you.
*Conditions applied
Oct/090
ADOBE Buzzword – Online Word Processor
Adobe® Buzzword® is a new online word processor, perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop word processor, but it operates inside a web browser on Acrobat.com, so there's no installation required.
Buzzword is part of Acrobat.com. Once you create documents here, you can access them from anywhere, no need to tackle with email attachments.
All you have to do is to create an Adobe.com user account and get started here.
The User Interface is build in Adobe Flash Platform, which is very cool and rich.
Oct/090
Some useful Adobe AIR Apps you should know
Adobe AIR , as you all know, is platform-independent runtime with which web developers can use their expertise in RIA development to create Applications for Desktops.
There are some thousands of AIR applications available now for use.
HONGKIAT listed out some nice AIR applications which can be useful in our day-to-day activities. I found some applications which i dint knew about from this article.
Install and use these applications. Make this world full of AIR 
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