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Interesting things in Adobe Labs - Adobe Wave

Posted by James - 27/11/08 at 09:11:59 am

Adobe Wave is just one of the interesting projects on the Adobe Labs site - a “one-line API call” for displaying desktop notifications, built on Adobe AIR and hosted by Adobe.  Adobe are certainly committed to making AIR a success, and one of the ways they’re doing this is by developing and releasing applications like this.

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10 minute Flex / AIR tutorial - Creating your Application Splash Screen.

Posted by James - 26/11/08 at 04:11:10 pm

Ah, the old splash screen - a familiar thing for anyone using Adobe products, I should imagine.

I’m going to skip the arguements for and against a splash screen on your application, and assume there’s a valid reason for having one - this is mainly a ’show and tell’ with my code, followed by a few technical musings, and links to the project files.

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The Office Opening Ceremony…

Posted by James - 25/11/08 at 11:11:12 pm

Remember a few weeks ago, when I muttered something about moving offices?  Well, now we’ve moved it was about time we had an official opening ceremony - regardless of how corny that might be - but hey, at least we’ve something to celebrate.  (Especially if you pay much attention to the doom and gloom News).

I know you’re all wishing you were there, but there has to be a limit on attendance.  But fear not - if you weren’t there on the day, we have a short film prepared, and will follow up with some photos from the day, just as soon as our official photographer gets sends the images over. ( Hint, hint - Mark ).

Check out the news story on MMT Digital’s website, or check below the jump to watch our video.

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Desktop Mashups?

Posted by James - 25/11/08 at 10:11:27 am

It’s a fast-paced industry, with Digital Production studios (like us) transforming all manner of content from clients into wide variety of other formats. We’ll take school textbooks for example and transform them into interactive textbooks, or spreadsheets of contact details and translate them into Google Map pages.  A labour-intensive task?  It doesn’t have to be, if you’re clever about things (and a little flexible, and willing to get your hands dirty with alien programming languages).

Most companies have crossed into the realms of digital (who even works with paper anymore?) but that doesn’t mean that they are using formats that are compatable with web development - quite the opposite - they’ll mostly be Word documents, Excel spreadsheets or Powerpoint presentations. Likewise, images you’re supplied will be full-resolution megapixel camera shots, not web-optimised graphics. So, just how do you turn work around in an efficent, reliable way - in the easiest way possible for both you and the client?

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Tour de Flex

Posted by James - 25/11/08 at 10:11:50 am

Tour de Flex is a desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR and data integration, as well as a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more.

Head on over to Flex.org to download the AIR application and get links to the plugins / source code!

Adobe Flex reaches out to .NET developers

Posted by Daniel - 24/11/08 at 10:11:22 am

http://www.developerfusion.com/news/article/9274/adobe-flex-reaches-out-to-net-developers/

“Flex in a Week” with Adobe Media Player

Posted by James - 24/11/08 at 09:11:36 am

Follow the instructions on this page: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/?trackingid=EAWOW and while you’re at it, I’d subscribe to a few other Flash/Flex channels, like 360|Flex: http://www.onflex.org/ted/2008/08/360flex-sessions-media-rss-feed.php - it’s well worth it - there’s bound to be something there to interest you…

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