Adobe Imagination Challenge
If you’re a student in the United Kingdom and you fancy winning some serious money for showing off your creative talents then Adobe’s latest competition might be right up your street. The Adobe Imagination Challenge runs until November and gives students in the UK the opportunity to gain national recognition for their work. Guest judges […]
Flash Development for Android Cookbook
I’ve had this book on my radar for some time, and I’m glad to have finally gotten my hands on a copy. Joseph Labrecque’s “Flash Development for Android Cookbook” looks like it’s going to be perfect for anyone wishing to take the plunge with Android development using Flash. And to be perfectly honest, from what […]
AS3-like features in JavaScript
Is the thought of writing web applications in JavaScript getting you down? Does it bring back all the horribly memories from the dark days of ActionScript 1? We’ll it does for me, which is probably why Jangaroo makes me feel all warm and happy inside. What is it? Well basically it allows JavaScript to adopt […]
Flash a-ah, Saviour of the Universe
I love this commercial for the BlackBerry PlayBook. It serves as a great piece for not only the Flash Player, but Adobe AIR too – all the apps featured are written using it. If anyone at BlackBerry is reading this post then send me out a PlayBook and I’ll write good things about it on […]
Converting Flash Content to HTML5
You might remember the excitement at one of the sneak peek sessions at Adobe MAX, where a tool was shown that took Flash content and converted it to HTML5. Well Adobe has just made that tool available on Adobe Labs for anyone wishing to target non-Flash-enabled devices. Codenamed “Wallaby”, this initial beta version is aimed […]
Taking Advantage of the SWF Format
The SWF file format is incredibly compact, and if you know what you’re doing you can create quite gorgeous things in only a few kilobytes. Unfortunately to take advantage of the format you sometimes need to have an understanding of how it works, or at least have someone show you some best practices for creating […]
Merry Christmas
For those who don’t know me, I like Star Wars even more than I like Flash. With Christmas only a few days away I thought I’d share this photo with you guys and tell you a little cautionary Christmas tale. That’s me and my brother dressed up in those crappy Star Wars costumes. And even […]
Happy Birthday Blog!
Hard to believe but my blog is one year old today. Have a slice of this virtual cake on me. Om nom nom nom.
Does Apple Need Flash?
A day doesn’t go by without someone speculating that Apple will eventually be forced to include the Flash player on iPhone and iPad in an attempt to fend off the ever increasing Android user base. Personally I don’t see this happening for two reasons. Firstly, the majority of people aren’t buying Android devices for the […]
Facebook Challenge
We had quite an interested day at WeeWorld last week with our boss MacDog announcing that we’d all be doing something a little different. The plan was to split the developers into two rival teams and give each a day to think-up and build a really cool Facebook app. Well if the truth be told […]