Announcing “kannopy – AIR Application Development and Consulting”. This exciting new company will focus on application development using the Adobe Integrated Runtime. kannopy should be officially open for business sometime in early 2008. In addition to pure AIR app dev kannopy will also offer high end experience and UI design for Flex and AIR applications. [...]

“How To Simulate Material, Light & Dimension in Flash with Just Gradients” by: Dolores Joya. This article is an artists inside perspective into the world of vector gradients applied to user interface design. Dolores has been involved with traditional art for a number of years. Here is your chance to learn some of the principals [...]

We all remember the old school gabo site. Here is an AIR application Gabo Mendoza is developing. It looks pretty cool. From the homepage: “Wouldn’t it be great if you could take pieces of your favorite web sites and put them on your desktop? Things like that auction you’ve got your eye on, your web [...]

Following up the list of 22 ActionScript 3.0 libraries is a new list of 31 Flex APIs and resources. You will find: time saving APIs, libraries, tools and other resources related to Flex development. Adobe Flex cookbook beta http://www.tiny.cc/VbU44 AnimatedGIfLoader Flex Component Allows you to load animated gif files into your Flex applications http://dougmccune.com/blog/animatedgifloader-flex-component/ Asdia [...]

Here is a follow up to Jamie’s “AS3: APIs” post seen over on the bigspaceship blog last month. The list contains 22 AS3 APIs that should save Flash and Flex developers a ton of time. I have personally used and can recommend the following: Papervision, as3corelib, Tweener, APE and XIFF. Adobe APIs corelib, mappr, flickr, [...]

Here is a very simplistic Flex Builder 3 and AIR example that adds and removes records from a table in a local SQLite database. This is not a fully completed AIR project but this code can probably be reused by anyone wanting to get started with AIR+SQLite. There are a couple of other AIR+SQLite examples [...]

That’s correct! Download the Adobe AIR Runtime and SDK. Also download Flex Builder 3 Public Beta. TONS of new features many which can be seen on Ted’s blog here. Be sure to download the updated documentation too! (There are two links at the bottom of the page.) Here are 4 new videos for Flex 3 [...]

techniques.org is looking to hire a Senior E-learning developer immediatly. The individual accepting the role will be taking over my current position. There are plenty of perks to the job including tellecommuting and 401k matching. Developers in the Denver area are strongly encouraged to apply. Here are the details for the position: Senior E-learning Developer [...]

There I was, a hard core ActionScript guy sitting in a room full (30+) of Java coders. A little intimidating at first however the attendees were all very nice. During the break one of the Java coders came up and asked me what I programmed in if it wasn’t Java. I said ActionScript. He said [...]

A few topics being covered: Cameras, Scenes, COLLADA, Materials, Native Objects, Interactivity, Flash 9 IDE, UVW unwrap basics, Workflow with 3D guys, working with 3D Studio Max and Maya, Bumpmaps, Working with 3D scenes and 2D content, Using PV3D Flash 9 IDE components, and much more… this is going to be off the hinges! I [...]