Fun with the Flash Media Server

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

We have Flash Media Server 3 to dish out our streaming videos. Eventually, the company also wants to develop a live streaming video service that lets people watch any event we are covering: conventions, shows, meetings, etc. With the Flash Media Encoder, it takes literally seconds to set up a live streaming video. The main [...]

Help Resources

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

There are days when tutorials just won’t cut it. Is your question too advanced for the forums? Need to talk to a person instead?
Try connecting to a community of developers. Yahoo! Groups and the Figleaf Mailing Lists are great ways to find and talk to the pros. The ones I subscribe to are:

Dreamweaver on Yahoo! [...]

Adobe AIR Beta Released!

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Once code named Apollo, this project has been unveiled to the developing community and will be officially announced tomorrow. Download it here.
What is the big deal about AIR? The Adobe website defines it as “a cross-operating system runtime that allows web application developers to use their existing web development skills (HTML, Javascript, Adobe Flash, Adobe [...]

Having a little fun

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Here is a fun little project I worked on in my spare time for Cheryl Klein, the continuity editor of the Harry Potter books. Thanks to Melinda (who knows I am a fan of the books) for so thoughtfully connecting the two of us!

Taking a Crack at Flash Components: DateField Components

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Informal Tutorial – Intermediate
DateField Components
Learn how to calculate days in between two dates, using two DateField components.
After learning some basic concepts with the DateChooser component, it took me less time to build the ADG calculator using two DateField components. Unfortunately due to some legal concerns I can’t show my finished calculators just yet. I won’t [...]