With Kana Mind released (even if still in beta form), I figured I’d talk a little bit about the experience of writing a mobile application using Flash (and Adobe AIR) as a platform (there’s also the weird timing of Adobe announcing they won’t be updating the Flash plugin for mobile devices anymore, focusing instead on AIR apps). The […]
Continue reading →Almost 20 years ago, I decided I wanted to try and learn Japanese. Other than studying the language’s grammar and vocabulary, I also had to learn the basic symbols used by the Japanese language – the Kana – so I could read Japanese properly. The Kana consists of 96 symbols (plus variants) which are to […]
Continue reading →Adobe AIR 3 includes a great new feature: StageText. Using the normal TextField for text input works just fine, but this new TextField-like class allows you to control your text input more closely (especially on mobile devices) with many options like auto capitalization, software keyboard type, and more. It has its caveats (it’s a separate class, […]
Continue reading →Just posted a new article on NetMagazine: the developer’s guide to browser adoption rates. It analyzes the speed of adoption of new browser versions and compare them to each other, and to the Flash Player plugin adoption. Much like my old Flash video playback benchmark, this is one of those things that started with an […]
Continue reading →About 20 years ago, I was reading a Daredevil comic book story and it mentioned the neighborhood where most of the story takes place. It was called Hell’s Kitchen, and it translates to “Cozinha do Inferno” in Brazilian Portuguese (the language of the comic I was reading it in). I thought that was a funny name and had […]
Continue reading →Update (May 2012): The information below applies to an old version of FDT and is deprecated. If you’re using FDT 5.5 or newer (which I recommend), you can skip most of it and just follow the IDE’s own mobile project setup steps, which are must easier and straightforward. There’s something wonderful about using the same […]
Continue reading →Figured I’d post my acting debut here. I’m the guy wearing the green shirt and frowning at the dog.
Continue reading →Recently, in one of our work pitches at Firstborn, we were asked whether we could create a web-based application that could use your webcam to track the position of your eyes. We didn’t know for sure that would be possible (or to which level of accuracy) so we decided to spend a few days creating […]
Continue reading →For some reason, I always have trouble finding and download the Flash ActionScript 3 language documentation. The LiveDocs are easy to find, but the zipped documentation – which is super useful to have locally for faster access and for quick help at the press of F1 if you install it on a tool like FDT […]
Continue reading →In the past few months, it’s surprising the number of times I’ve had to play a video in Flash (in either FLV or F4V format) and know its current time (or current frame) accurately – specially because we’ve been using a lot of shape tracking, to project a Flash content-based plane on top of a […]
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