November 2011
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Karma is a bitch →
early-onset-of-night:
Tattoo artist Ryan Fitzgerald from Dayton, OH was hit with a $100,000 lawsuit last week by his ex-girlfriend Rossie Brovent. She claims that her boyfriend was supposed to tattoo a scene from Narnia on her back but instead tattooed an image of a pile of excrement with flies buzzing around it. Apparently, Ryan found out that Rossie had cheated with a long-time friend of his,...
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At the gym (or not)
Demotion of motion
How do you stay motivated when you’re not really all that motivated to move from the couch?
Bless me trainer for I have sinned. It’s been 4 days since my last visit to the gym. I confess. I just didn’t feel like it. Not only did I not go to the gym this weekend, but I ate…pizza and pasta! Yes! Clutch your pearls in shock! I have no excuse, I just felt...
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Putting the "Community" in community help
Check out the links to community content we’ve added to Adobe Help. We found these links by talking to customers, going to conferences and checking out blogs and forums. So if you’re writing a tutorial or sample app, we’d love to hear from you. Check out this post to see how to contribute.
In the meantime, take a look at the...
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Comic Books: Exclusive: All Marvel Digital Comics... →
Marvel is taking its entire line of comics “day-and-date” digitally, meaning you’ll be able to download all of the company’s comics on the its mobile app just as soon as they’re available in physical stores.
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Where to find ActionScript examples →
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This week's cool stuff with the Flash Platform →
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Dropping some ActionScript learning on ya
Last week we started publishing two series of articles to help our users navigate the ins and outs of ActionScript and I’m happy to report that our efforts have met with much rejoicing (in the form of many retweets).
We started off by published the first few articles in our Fundamentals series for people learning ActionScript with little to no programming background:
ActionScript...
October 2011
17 posts
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At the gym
Remedial no more
So when I first started out with my new trainer (referred to as “the Young’n” here within) he took a look at my fitness and said “hmmm….you need conditioning” Ok, no one would mistake me for a tri-athlete, but really, can you tell me I’m not conditioned just be looking at me? 2 minutes into our first workout I knew exactly what he...
Think Flash is dead? Not quite →
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What the heck are AIR Native Extensions?
The quick explanation
With we released of AIR 3.0 we added this awesome new feature called native extensions. Trust me these are cool. Essentially, a native extension will let you extend the functionality of your AIR app so it can access the native capabilities of a device. So, by adding some native code you can:
make a mobile device vibrate.
change the channel on a TV
read pressure...
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Learning ActionScript is not as hard as you think
As part of our effort to get more involved in our community, my team has been out there in the forums listening to issues and pulling stats on page views and ratings. After gathering up the data we generated a list of top issues. You know what’s at the top of that list (besides Flash Player crashes)? People are having trouble learning ActionScript. We get tons of questions like: why do I...
that moment when you try to get actionscript to...
libeledlady:
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“I helped put Adobe on the map,” Jobs told Isaacson. “The soul of...”
– Excerpt from Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson
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At the gym again
Ah..youth
OK so I’m still at the gym. I’ve got a new trainer and things are going swell. He’s not like my last trainer,but he’s growing on me. The biggest difference between is that my new trainer is way young. It’s fairly humbling, but this 20yr old kid is really kicking my 40yr old butt.
It was really hard taking him seriously at first. I mean, when someone...
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Looking for ActionScript examples? Try this
Did you know there are tons of ActionScript examples quietly living within the pages of the ActionScript 3.0 Reference? No, well there are. You’ll find tons of code snippets throughout the reference and most classes have longer class-based examples. Just look for the View the example link on a page:
We’re constantly adding new examples for new and updated APIs so check back often...
More cool stuff with Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 →
Cool happenings in the Flash Player and AIR communities.
Overview of Flash Player 11 →
Discussion of what’s new in Flash Player 11.
More on Adobe touch apps →
Abobe touch apps
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So you say you have a contribution...
Hello you amazing developers, do you have a cool app or code block you think everyone could use? You do? Well, we’d love to share it for you. Our help pages get millions of hits a month and we can highlight your submission on any page. Our community leads would be happy to add your contribution and link back your blog, website or favorite social media channel.
We’re already doing it...
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So long Steve
It’s no secret that Apple and Adobe have had their issues lately, but that doesn’t mean we ever discounted Steve Job’s contribution to the whole tech world. I was on the team that worked on the first version of Flash player for mobile phones. We spent years trying to get the player smushed down into a tiny package so it would fit on a phone. Flash Lite was a really big feat of...
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My tablet has AIR and Photoshop --useful no?
Ok, I don’t want to sound like a traitor to my collegues, but I’ve had AIR on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 for over 3 mths now and haven’t run it once. That’s all about to change now baby! At our big user conference (Adobe MAX) we announced the Creative Cloud which includes a series of touch apps that make drawing and collaborating super-easy.
Now, I’m not in marketing. All I...
Adobe loves HTML 5 and Flash equally →
AIR on your TV--very cool →
September 2011
18 posts
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Adding the "Community" in community content
Over the past year we’ve been out in the community listening to issues and gathering content. The results of our labors have been links and code samples added to our help pages. While we feel this makes our content more dynamic, it doesn’t do much unless you know it there. So, in an effort to get more eyes on all this great community content, we’re spicing up our pages in a...
Good discussion about Android on "my" new Kindle... →
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Why the @#$%! do I have to keep installing Flash?
Hey there’s a new version of the Flash Player out. It’s got cool stuff. Go install it. Wait, didn’t you just install player two weeks ago? Wait, didn’t you just install the player two weeks before that? What’s the deal?
Ok, yes it’s annoying, but trust me you want to always have the latest version of the player. See, not everyone is as nice as we are. Not...
To shop or not to shop (or do I need more tech??)
Today Amazon announced pre-orders of the Amazon Kindle:Fire. It looks super-groovy cool. It’s specs are sexy. It’s Android so it has Google goodness under the hood with added advantage of running Flash and AIR. Best of all, it’s waaay cheap. Sounds like a no-brainer right? Then why haven’t I clicked the “1-click” button on my Amazon account?
Hmmm..let’s...
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My Flash video is doing what?#@!---Fix it!
So now that my team is embracing the idea of talking to our customers, we’re reading through the tons of comments you’re leaving on the forums and in our knowledge base. It doesn’t take too long to realize that there is a lot of frustration out there. Your game doesn’t work, your video doesn’t play or you just keep being asked to install the player again and again....
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At the gym
I started with a new trainer this week. I had a trainer for over 2 yrs before this one, but he kinda …died. It wasn’t anything horrible just a dumb accident that could have happened to anyone. I only saw my trainer twice a week but it turns out he had a profound impact on my life. Sadly, I didn’t know it until he was gone. Odd isn’t it? You just don’t realize the...
“Acquiring free food is a major focus of our group—we are proven drivers of ROI...”
– Karen Leeburg
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iBattery native extension for Adobe AIR
A new native extension for Adobe AIR: http://blogs.adobe.com/actionscriptdocs/2011/09/ibattery-native-extension-for-adobe-air.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
This new extension was submitted by our community in the AIR pre-release. It’s part of our on-going effort to get out and collaborate with our users. Many thanks to Todd Anderson
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Application Development: Adobe Flash 11 and AIR 3:... →
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My raison d'etre
So more about me: I work for Adobe focusing on all things ActionScript and Flash Player. <legal> The opinions expressed in this blog are my own and not those of the company </legal> So while I’m writing about my random thoughts some of them deal with my job. After all, I spend most of my day there so why shouldn’t the occasional work topic pop up.
Anyway, my job has been...
Beyond tragic →
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
“You have a blog? You are now officially noise”
– My boss
“I don’t know why the mail comes. I just know that it comes. Don’t...”
– Tim Smith
Electronic voices
Oh you may be wondering why I’m so loquacious all of a sudden. Well in this amazing electronic age we live in, one needs to be more than just a cog behind their desk. We need to have a social media presence. Our persona must be out there, our updates and tweets must be joined to the other mulittude of voices in the blog-o-sphere so we can be part of the “now”; in touch with the...
What I learned today
It’s good to learn something new everyday no? Well today I learned that brand loyalty is a double-edged sword. Sure you know what you’re going to get every time you buy a product from your favorite brand and that’s a good thing. It’s like a little security in a cruel chaotic world. But wait? What happens when this trusted brand discontinues your favorite product. What do...
