Oh Me, Oh My - YouTube Supports 720p

11/19/2008 03:15 am in AIR

Caught this info via a Ryan Stewart tweet last week. Looks like YouTube supports up to 720p video if the source video is high enough quality. Good to know. The real question is WTF Google? Why don’t we know what exactly all the requirements are? For instance, I work for a company that would be very [...]

Adobe MAX 2008 Keynote Pics

11/18/2008 05:06 pm in AIR

I’m a bit behind, but below the fold you’ll find some pics from the keynote.

AIR 1.5 Cookbook is out and free chapter to download is available at Adobe DevNet

11/18/2008 04:54 pm by Marco Casario | RIAvolutionize the web in AIR Adobe Integrated Runtime

O'Reilly has announced the new AIR 1.5 Cookbook that is available to buy at the O'Reilly booth at MAX Conference. Today at 1.30pm the authors will be at the stand to sign some copies. The book covers such topics as working with the encrypted local database, pixel bender filters, some of the new Flash Player 10 features - as well as how to target AIR 1.5 in your application and the AIR APIs as well.

The XMP Revolution is Here

11/16/2008 07:45 am in AIR

I was testing some MPEG4-AVC playback code the other day and ran into a Flash Player runtime exception I hadn’t ever seen before: Hmph. An onXMPData callback–that piqued my interest. I’ve long been a fan of metadata and XMP in particular (it takes a special type of nerd to have the meta love), so when I [...]

Yes, the h.264 Specification is Freely Available

11/16/2008 04:51 am in AIR

I’ve done quite a bit of research on MPEG4-AVC / h.264 over the last year, but one thing that always seemed to bug me was that I couldn’t seem to find a freely available version of the spec anywhere. I’d hoped to find something on the ISO site, and I did, but it they’re charging [...]

Adobe AIR Cook-off contest winners

11/14/2008 05:09 pm by Marco Casario | RIAvolutionize the web in AIR Adobe Integrated Runtime

Following the Rich's post, O'Reilly has announced the winners of the Adobe AIR Cook-off contest: Greg Jastrab, Jeff Tapper, and Jamie Kosoy. You can check out the winning entries online at the Adobe AIR Cookbook site

Heading to San Francisco for MAX 2008 presenting the AIR 1.5 Cookbook

11/13/2008 03:02 am by Marco Casario | RIAvolutionize the web in AIR Adobe Integrated Runtime

I'm honored to be part of the MAX 2008 again. And I'm pretty excited to present together with the other authors the O'Reilly AIR 1.5 Cookbook. The book will be the first one updated to the upcoming AIR 1.5. So if you want to know more about the new features of AIR 1.5 come and join our speech at MAX San Francisco on Wednesday.

Dojo Extensions for Adobe AIR

11/12/2008 09:40 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in AIR

Adobe and SitePen have teamed up to create Dojo Extensions for Adobe AIR to make it easier to create rich desktop apps using the Dojo Toolkit and Adobe AIR. More info posted on the SitePen blog.

Improve Flash MPEG-4 AVC Seeking With Binary Search

11/12/2008 05:22 pm in AIR

Like most video nerds I’ve been working with MPEG-4 AVC (h.264) in Flash Player, but the release of Flash Player 10 has introduced some challenges. For example, there’s a Flash Player bug which causes Internet Explorer 6 / 7 to crash when seeking between the first two indexed keyframes in an MPEG-4 AVC encoded file [...]

100 Awesome Adobe AIR Apps for Productivity

11/07/2008 10:41 am by Marco Casario | RIAvolutionize the web in AIR Adobe Integrated Runtime

I guess this list will be interesting for many of you, but first of all this post is a reminder for myself ;) Hack Your Work Day: 100 Awesome Adobe AIR Apps for Productivity For many freelancers, business travelers and other professionals who have to spend time out of their office or on the road, Adobe AIR is a great solution for maximizing productivity, even if you don’t have an Internet connection.

CareerOverview.com Lists 100 Awesome Adobe AIR Apps For Productivity

11/06/2008 05:01 am by Ben Forta's Blog in AIR

CareerOverview.com has posted a list of 100 Awesome Adobe AIR Apps For Productivity. Thanks to Kelly Sonora for sending me the link.

The AIR Team Is Blogging

11/04/2008 07:09 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in AIR

The Adobe AIR team now has their own official team blog.

TechRepublic Continues ColdFusion 8 Coverage With Story About FoodSHIELD

11/03/2008 09:31 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in AIR

As a follow-up to last week's story on how NaturalInsight uses ColdFusion 8, TechRepublic is running a new story entitled How FoodSHIELD's developers put ColdFusion 8 to good use. In it, Brian Kotek explains what FoodSHIELD does, and how they use ColdFusion, Savvy CMS, Adobe Connect, and more to power their important work. Among the ColdFusion 8 features mentioned are Ajax support and the integrated LiveCycle Data Services (used to power AIR applications).

A Short Addendum to my Web Design Tools List - pixDif

10/31/2008 02:27 am by Visualrinse | Design and Development by Chad Udell in AIR

Dan Florio, aka PolyGeek, dropped by my post on the Ten Website Design Tools I Can’t Live Without and dropped a good bomb on me in my comments. He recommended I try pixDif. pixDif is a tool he created to aid in rapid protyping of website designs. It’s super cool! I highly recommend you download [...]

The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development

10/27/2008 04:16 pm by Marco Casario | RIAvolutionize the web in AIR Adobe Integrated Runtime

I'm very proud to finally announce that I'm working to a new book project about AIR development using Flash CS4. The title will be published by FriendsofED and it will have some great contributors: Andrew Shorten (Adobe Evangelist http://www.ashorten.com/), Koen (www.newmovieclip.com) and my colleagues at Comtaste Matteo Ronchi and Fabio Bernardi. The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development

Apress and FriendsOfED books available on Safari Books Online and Italian online technical bookstore Gorilla.it

10/23/2008 06:30 pm by Marco Casario | RIAvolutionize the web in AIR Adobe Integrated Runtime

There a couple of great news about FriendsOfED and Apress (FOED was acquired by Apress). The first one is about new partnerships with German bookstore Lehmanns, which serves Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, (http://www.lob.de/) and Italian online technical book seller M.e.B.S. S.r.l. ( Gorilla.it http://www.gorilla.it). If you're italian now you have no more excuses to buy my books edited by FOED: Flex Solutions, Essential Guide to Flash CS4 and AIR Development, Advanced AIR applications :) Moreover Apress has signed new partnerships with

Slides from my ActionScript Conference Singapore:ActionScript 3 mashup application development with Flex and AIR

10/21/2008 07:17 pm by Marco Casario | RIAvolutionize the web in AIR Adobe Integrated Runtime

The ActionScript Conference in Singapore was a great event. The guys of the Flex UG Singapore that have organized all the stuff made an excellent work. To be a first edition I can say with no doubts that it was a success. These are the slides of my presentation that was inspired by my FOTB speech but with a more focus on AIR APIs:

Removing a child from a parent by passing instance name as string

10/21/2008 09:32 am in AIR

Following is a code to remove a child from a parent by passing it’s instance name as a string and parent as a display object import fl.controls.Button; //———– Draw a graphics on the stage ———- var t:Sprite = new Sprite(); t.name = “testSprite”; t.graphics.lineStyle(1,0×0000ff); t.graphics.beginFill(0xff0000); t.graphics.drawCircle(0,0,50); t.graphics.endFill(); addChild(t); t.x =100; t.y = 100; //———– Remove Child Function ————– function removeChildWithRef(spriteName:String, parentObj:*){ var t:DisplayObject = parentObj.getChildByName(spriteName); parentObj.removeChild(t); } //————- Add a Button [...]

Xray short walk-through video

10/12/2008 04:34 am in AIR

After seeing some of the replies on my last post, I thought doing a little video on what the AS3 version is capable would be a good idea. So here’s a little walk through: http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/36547/videos/xray/XrayWalkthrough_7Min.mov

Improve Performance with BitmapData.lock( )

10/10/2008 03:24 pm in AIR

While reading a book i come to a very interesting topic which i would like to share here ———————– By default, The bitmap instances that reference a given BitmapData object are notified every time setPixel32( ) or setPixel( ) is called on that object. When setPixel32( ) or setPixel( ) are used in rapid succession within the [...]

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