You want to install a Facebook fan page using a Flash template.

I recently took these series of photos in my weekend, these are my toy story 3 toys, out of the self & inspire me

Here's something I knew wouldn't be a problem but I wanted to confirm. As you know, an HTML page cannot make an Ajax request to a remote server. There are ways around this (a proxy on your server or JSONP), but for the most part, it's a hard and fast... [More]

Today I joined 70 other Adobe employees and traded my high-tech tools for gardening and painting tools at a local volunteer project. We spent the morning at Burnett Middle School in San Jose, which is an Adobe Youth Voices site, painting educational murals, tilling soil and tending the garden beds. Although this project was not [...]

Cocoon P2P is an open source peer-to-peer library for Flex/AIR and mobile devices that makes peer discovery, messaging and object replication via the RTMFP protocol easy and straightforward. It was created with simplicity in mind and does most of the...

Before I tell you about the event I just wanted to give a special thanks to Erin Kelly, Shawn Pucknell, Sandi Carmichael, the FITC crew, and volunteers. I don’t think people realize how much time and effort is put into an event like this. These guys all did an absolutely amazing job making sure everything [...]

We have just released a 3d medieval fantasy cottage model for purchase download. You must be a registered user to purchase the product zip. "A weathered stone cottage 3d model with detailed multi-pane windows, stone walkway, slate roofing, double chimney and rear wood shed." The Product Page with more images; http://teotigraphix.com/3dmodels/fantasy/fantasycottage6 This model can be used with Unity 3D. Mike

As more and more devices come out, we on the Flex team have occasionally seen platform-specific or device-specific bugs. One of the more visible ones is when flash.system.Capabilities.screenDPI reports the wrong value. Flex Mobile applications use the screenDPI property for application scaling (when setting the applicationDPI property) or when choosing density-specific skins (i.e. not using the applicationDPI [...]

If you are developing multiple forms / fragments inside your application whereby some forms look similar, a common way is then to copy some XDP-files at some point to make specific changes to these forms. What most developers don’t realize … Continue reading →

jQuery 1.6 released a significant change to the way it handles DOM attributes and properties. Take for example in version 1.5.2, the following code would return isCheckedAttr as “true”. <input type="checkbox" checked="checked" /> <script type="text/javascript"> var isCheckedAttr = $('input').attr("checked"); </script> In version 1.6 the addition of .prop() and .removeProp() changes what the .attr() method will [...]

Skeleton tracking test from InteractiveLab on Vimeo.

I’m happy to announce that I’ll be participating in the Jumpstart Foundry, a seed stage funding and mentoring program here in Nashville. As part of my business I plan to create a tool that helps designers build apps for iOS and Android devices (using the Reflex component framework). I probably won’t be releasing much more [...]

I’ve started a new meetup group here in San Francisco for other Graphical User Interface Designers and those who are interested in learning more about this topic. Here’s a list of Resource links from the topics we covered in our discussion. It was nice to meet you all and I hope to see you at [...]

FITC Toronto 2011 Titles from FITC on Vimeo. The production quality on these things is awesome. They (MK12) should do a decomposition on how they went about the creation process (in fact, maybe they did at FITC, but I missed it?).

This dude clearly watched RAD more times than I did growing up.

The “Vector Paparazzi” app I blogged on Sunday drew an extremely strong response, and now it’s arrived for real: VectorScribe is available in two flavors, Designer (£39+VAT (roughly $65/€45)) which features path manipulation & measurement tools, and Studio (£69+VAT ($119/€79)) which adds smart shapes & dynamic corners. Here’s a slightly updated version of the earlier [...]

The Flex 4.5 release introduced many new features, including support for mobile devices and tablets. The following links will help you get started with the Flex 4.5 release: Introducing Adobe Flex 4.5 SDK by Adobe Product Manager, Deepa Subramaniam at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/introducing-flex45sdk.html Build your first mobile application in Flash Builder 4.5 at http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_flex45_build_mobile_app_en Mobile development using [...]

Computer users have been warned to be weary of multiple malware attacks that claim to offer photos or video footage of Bin Laden’s body and are spreading on the internet.... Read more » This is a content summary only. Click on the above title or visit techsling.com for the complete article and much more!

The ColdBox team will be holding a small, intimite gathering of ColdBox aficionados at cfObjective on Thursday May 12th at 6:30pm. If you are attending the cfObjective confernece or live in the Minneapolis, MN area we hope you will join us for a fun evening. Team ColdBox will be there and we welcome the chance to discuss ColdBox, the roadmap or anything else you like. Where: Spikes' Sports Bar and Grill at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis (1300 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, MN). When: Thursday May 12th at 6:30pm.

In a few weeks, kids and teens around the world will be packing up and heading off for camp. I went to a few camps myself, and I never once got to throw dynamite into a lake. Here’s the latest episode of Dick Figures. It’s episode 2 of season 2, and Red and Blue head [...]

The public beta of Flash Builder “Burrito” that was released at MAX included several “quick fix” features. For example, if you typed the name of a property or method that didn’t exist in the current class, you could hit Ctrl/Cmd+1 and create the missing item. The final release of Flash Builder takes this much farther. Here [...]

In this tutorial we're going to show you how to connect to a Microsoft Access database file but everything you learn here will apply equally to other data sources (SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, etc).To follow this tutorial you'll need to be familiar with ActionScript 3. You can use Flash, Flex or your authoring tool of choice, as long as it supports ActionScript 3. You don't need to have Access installed unless you want to open the example database file. An ADO provider for Access ships with all recent versions of Windows and that's all we need to work with these

My apologies that it took so long to get this up, but I've finally posted the slides from my presentation with Adnaan Ahmad on behalf of Anaara Media. The full-length video presentation of the session will be available very soon on Zaa.tv, along with all of the other incredibly fascinating sessions from 360|Flex 2011. Originally this [...]

Flex 4.5 was recently released, and one of the big pushes for that is mobile support. When building mobile components, we want to build ActionScript Skins for them instead of MXML skins, as we did with Flex 4 and Flex 4.1. This is a bit of a change for us, as Adobe always pushed us to use MXML when creating skin classes. I believe that the push to use ActionScript over MXML is due to performance. MXML is really just an ActionSript code generation language; and sometimes it does some unexpected things under the hood. Writing skins in ActionScript is

  To communicate the LG Steam Direct Drive Washing Machine’s ‘wrinkle-free washing’ promise, we reinvented the laundry bag and gave them to neighborhood laundries to deliver their ironed clothes in.       Agency: Y&R, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Chief Creative Officer: Shahir Zag Creative Director: Shahir Zag / Husen Baba Associate Creative Director: Ash [...]

The final installment of this series, about a Sage Commons Congress on the open-source sharing of genetic research, looks at what Sage Bionetworks and its friends need to do.

In the latest Publishing News: A study found digital text might disrupt cognitive mapping, digital browsing solutions are discussed in Pete Meyers' latest "Breaking the Page" installment, and Amazon launches its fourth imprint.

With the launch of VectorScribe 24 hours ago, we are very pleased to say that we have been overwhelmed by the reaction, quick uptake and kind comments. As this is a new product, and so many people have downloaded the 7 day trial version so quickly, it’s unfortunate but not completely unexpected that a couple of [...]

Topic: Hands-on: Enhancing PowerPoint Courses with Adobe Captivate 5 Date and time: Thursday, June 9, 2011 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for an exciting hands-on session on how to convert the existing eLearning courses from PowerPoint to Adobe Captivate projects. Learn how to edit a PowerPoint presentation, [...]

Topic: Different Types of Slides in Adobe Captivate Date and time: Thursday, June 16, 2011 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to use different types of slides in Adobe Captivate 5. What’s in it for you? After attending this session, you will be able to: [...]

Topic: Adobe Captivate Interface Made Easy! Date and time: Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for an introductory session on Adobe Captivate interface. In this session, they will walk you through the Adobe Captivate workspace and show you how to use the toolbar, panels, [...]

Topic: Amazing Image Slideshows with Adobe Captivate 5 Date and time: Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn about creating good looking image slide shows. They will also discuss about adding audio to these image slides to make the content enjoyable. What’s in [...]

jQuery IdealForms jQIdealForms is a forms framework for jQuery that assists developers in building attractive forms with minimal Javascript code. Forms are defined in standard HTML so if the user has Javascript disabled, the form still displays. After calling the .idealForms() method on your form, jQIdealForms automatically styles and enhances all inputs. All styling is done with CSS, no images are used. jQIdealForms supports IE7+ and other modern browsers. MicroJS.com Microjs.com helps you discover the most compact-but-powerful microframeworks, and makes it easy for you to pick one that’ll work for you. Micro-frameworks are definitely the pocketknives of the JavaScript library

If you choose to add images via the operating system to a folder that Lightroom is already aware of (ie you have already imported that folder which had some image in it, but now there are more), Lightroom will NOT automatically display those newly added images. If you want Lightroom to display them, Control (Mac) [...]

Anyone out there playing with iText? iText is an open source library that allows for the creation and manipulation of PDFs via Java. I've heard of it before but have never really played with it. I find cfdocument and cfpdf to be good enough for most ... [More]

Here we are again with a new exclusive collection of Moto Flash Templates created on the basis of our professional Flash CMS. You must have noticed that our developers and designers have an endless stock of creativity and unusual ideas. And, as always, we are in a hurry to share the new exclusives with you:)

If you're in the newspaper biz, whether a small-market weekly or a metro daily, you owe it to yourself to listen to InDesignSecrets Podcast 148. The main feature of the podcast is an interview with my friend Russell Viers. Russell is a trainer and consultant who has specialized in the newspaper...

VectorScribe may be less than a day old, but some wonderful blog articles and an amazing tutorial has already been published by third parties. For the growing number of VectorScribe fans, here are the links… Gordon McAlpin is a long-standing friend of Astute Graphics (one day, we will publish the interview that was conducted with him some [...]

Have you checked out the marketplaces’ free files for April? Download them while you can! ActiveDen: Simple Calendar with Unlimited Events Calendar is resizable. You can resize the whole calendar over xml including text size and position of every element, without the need for opening flash files. Easy to change font (instructions included). AudioJungle: Africa [...]

Today I was pulling up the radar on weather.com.  I have the flash debug version and got a sweet error:   Hello I am the iMap and I would like to discuss something with you. We are attempting to load an icon library resource from a location that is not currently available. The reasource url that attempted to load [...]

i first heard about i learned to program… from the systers listserv last week, and have been thinking about how to distill my own story down into one sentence. a couple days ago i saw jean hsu’s story, which prompted me to think about it some more. i decided to focus on the fact that [...]

Although it is a slow process apparently, email notifications are starting to go out to our enterprise customers who have access to CS 5.5 through LWS this week. If you are unfamiliar with LWS, it is our Licensing Web Site for Adobe Volume Licensing (AVL) customers. It is also where order history, serials, and downloads [...]

Understanding and using Amazon EBS: There is a lot to understand, especially in light of particular events. Its important that we as engineers try our best to fully understand the tooling we rely so heavily on.

One of my favorite aspects of doign mobile development using Flash Builder 4.5 is that in most cases it gracefully handles some of the more annoyingly complicated aspects of the mobile development workflow. For instance, while it isn't overly difficult, pushing compiled apps to your Android device via the Google Android SDK tools was tedious. Typically, you'd have the command line open and use ADB to install to our connected device (having to write out the full disk location for your apk file). However, because Flash Builder includes the necessary SDK tools, once you create a run configuration and choose

9-bits: Subtle Patterns, patterns for Websites. Love the collection forming here, but more than anything, I love that they offer the whole collection as a Photoshop pattern.

By Paul Madsen Federation is a model of identity management that distributes the various individual components of an identity operation amongst different actors. The presumption being that the jobs can be distributed according to which actors are best suited or positioned to take them o ...

TitleWindow objects are great, but if you want more than just a close button in the title bar you’ll need to extend the component and add the functionality yourself. Here’s a quick how-to: package {     import mx.containers.TitleWindow;     import mx.controls.Button;     import mx.controls.LinkButton;     public class CustomTitleWindow extends TitleWindow     {         private var helpButton : LinkButton;         private var _closeButton [...]

If you batch-process images in Photoshop, particularly via the Image Processor command or Russell Brown’s 1-2-3 Process, you’ll want to check out what Russell has been up to.  He’s looking for beta testers and writes, Just like the earlier versions, this script (download) will batch process hundreds of images into any file type, or format, [...]

I am happy to say that I have passed the Flex 4 ACE Exam today. This is something that has been on my list for quite a while but I never really got around doing it. This time, however, I actually booked the exam few days ago to give myself a firm deadline. My score [...]

I have been promising myself (and others) to write about the ColdFusion UUID implementation for quite a while now and I feel like I have been procrastinating long enough. So at long last the definitive guide to ColdFusion UUIDs, based on many years of experience and a few conversations with the ColdFusion engineering team over [...]