You want to take advantage of the social media revolution and you have a great a idea focused around online video. You want to experience some of the growth and success you’ve witnessed YouTube, Tout, Instagram and others achieve. What were the catalysts that made these companies and others like them take off? While there …
Developing Scalable Mobile Video Chat Applications
I’m making the assets and workbook from my lab at Adobe MAX available for download. The attached ZIP contains the following: L2709_Presentation.ppt L2709_Workbook.pdf FlashP2PLib.fxpl MAX2011MobileVideoChat.fxp EyeChat.fxp EyeChatDesktop.fxp The last two projects are completed versions that you can use for testing or to skip ahead. I plan to follow up with posts related to the P2P …
Devising a Social Media Strategy
You’ve noticed the trend, businesses around the globe are embracing social media. Now, you want to harness that same power for your business. First, you need a social business strategy that makes sense for your business. In order to do that, you must consider the fact that times have changed. No longer can an organization …
Using Owned Native Window Functionality with Spark Windows
The release of AIR 2.6 brought about a lot of enhancements and features. One of which was owned native windows. What’s special about this is it makes it easy to have a main window that owns other windows, which is ultra-useful for applications that make use of multiple windows for things like tool palettes, property …
To Offshore or Nearshore? That Is The Question!
In recent years, outsourcing has emerged as a viable means for an organization to contract out a business function, that was previously performed in-house, to an external vendor/provider. The functions targeted can include areas such as business, knowledge or engineering processes, among others. Typically, an organization seeks to outsource in order to realize certain business …
Using ANT to Compile a Flex Mobile Project for iOS
It’s 3am. You have a sexy Flex mobile project that takes full advantage of the Hero SDK and its Spark mobile components. You’re dying to deploy to iPhone and iPad but unfortunately, you either have to build your app using Adobe’s iPhone packager via the command line interface (CLI), wait until Flash Builder includes a …
Why IPv6 is a Big Thing
It’s the nature of the universe that all things come to an end. It’s also human nature to dread this universal fact. We tend to look at this “end” as a loss of the permanent variety and we simply hate to lose things when that loss is permanent. This feeling causes us to be resistant …
Google Analytics for Air Applications
After uncovering very little info on the subject, I decided to write about how you can use Google Analytics (GA) to monitor usage of an AIR application. Implementation isn’t complex but it does require putting some thought into what you actually want to track since you’re using something meant for websites to monitor a desktop …
BlackBerry PlayBook – Calling All Developers
Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock for the past month, you’ve probably heard that Research In Motion (RIM), creator of the infamous BlackBerry smartphone, is soon to release an entry into the tablet market: The BlackBerry PlayBook. This device will definitely have an impact on the future of tablet-based computing. Here’s some preliminary info …
Adobe Illustrator CS5 HTML Pack
If you’ve been longing for a way to take your vector designs straight from Illustrator to Dreamweaver, you’ll want to grab the Illustrator CS5 HTML Pack from Adobe Labs. Here’s a brief rundown of some of the features: PROS Support SVG + HTML 5 – canvas – scaleable – accessible text Generate CSS3 Live, selectable …