I am heading to Europe in a little over a week for a couple of conferences. First up is FITC Amsterdam (sold out) where I will be helping Serge and Lee out with the keynote, and doing a session on Advanced Desktop Development with Adobe AIR. After Amsterdam, Serge, Lee and I will be heading over to London for the FlashCamp London, where I will be doing a session on migrating from ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3, targeting at non-developers.
There is a known issue with the Adobe AIR 1.5 install on Mac where in certain circumstances the install dialog will appear in the wrong language (usually Japanese or Chinese). If you run into this, here are the steps to work around it:
This is a known issue and will be fixed in the next AIR dot release.
As part of some of my recent work and research into ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 migration, I am working on an AS2 to AS3 migration reference cookbook. The core of the reference is the cookbook section which shows how to do commons tasks in ActionScript 2 and then ActionScript 3. The reference is targeted at users using Flash Pro to create animations and / or motion graphics and includes cookbook examples such as opening a URL, playing a sound, etc…
The iTunes app store has just approved my first application, and has posted it online. The application is an ActionScript 3 class reference for the iPhone and allows quick and easy access to the ActionScript 3 class reference docs for Flash Player 10, AIR 1.5, and Flex 3.2.
You can find more information on the application, view screenshots and log feature requests on the application’s home page. You can install the application directly from the iTunes app store from here.
From the press release:
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced plans to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) specification, which is designed for high-performance transmission of audio, video, and data between Adobe® Flash® Platform technologies.
The RTMP specification is expected to be posted on the Adobe Developer Connection in the first half of 2009.
You can read the entire press release here.
As you may have noticed from some of my recent posts (here and here), I have been spending some time lately thinking about the ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 transition. I am working on some stuff to make this transition easier (especially for non-developers), but I wanted to make a quick post and get the community’s input.
How can we make the transition from ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 easier? I am specifically interested in input from anyone who does not consider themselves hardcore developers.
Darron Schall has just checked in some changes and bug fixes to the JSON support in as3corelib. Among other things, Darron has added a strict mode which allows you to specify how strict of a conformance to the JSON spec you want the library to follow.
You can read all of the details over on Darron’s blog. As Darron notes, these are not in the build yet, so if you want to play around with the changes, you have to grab the source.
I have just posted a new version of ShortBoard, the Mac OS X application for searching for OS X broadcasts and schedules. This release adds the ability to add a broadcast to iCal so you can be reminded before the broadcast begins.
You can find all of the information, as well as download the application from here.
As you have probably heard by now, Adobe announced a number of layoffs yesterday. The layoffs were in response to the global economic downturn, and lower than expected sales of Adobe CS4 (due to the economic situation). You can find the press release for the revised revenue expectations and restructuring here (pdf). In total, about 600 people were let go.
Even if you have been through something like this before, it is still a big shock, and can be a difficult time. Unfortunately, it is one of the realities of our economic system.
