Category Archives: AIR

Adobe AIR (formerly Apollo)

Actionscript 3 performance tuning review

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Caleb Johnston

After late-night conversations amongst coworkers and friends over beers, I’ve discovered that many flash developers remain unfamiliar with AVM2′s inter workings. A while ago, I found a couple documents which have benefited me greatly in understanding AVM2 and AS3: Actionscript … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, AS3, Architecture, Flash, Flex, Programming | 6 Comments

Tweening timeline animations with KitchenSync

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Mims H Wright

One of the new features in KitchenSync 1.5 is the ability to tween animations on a MovieClip’s timeline… and I’m not just talking about gotoAndPlay(), I’m talking about controlling the starting and stopping points, speed, and easing functions of an … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, AS3, Flash, Flex, Lab, Site-seeing, Tutorial, Videogames, physics & motion | Tagged | 2 Comments

Pimp my ‘clipse – a list of must-have Eclipse plug-ins for Flex/Flash Development

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Mims H Wright

FlexBuilder may have its ups and downs but it still remains my pick for best AS3/MXML editor on the market (with TextMate not far behind). Part of the beauty of FlexBuilder is that it’s built on the Eclipse SDK, one … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, AS3, Flex, Programming, Tips, Tricks, and Hacks, Tutorial | 16 Comments

New Releases on Adobe Labs

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Mims H Wright

Flex 3 public beta is out. AIR public beta is out. and while you’re at it… Flash Lite 3 New Flash Player and BlazeDS, whatever that is. (Hint: despite the name, this is not Flash CS3 for Gameboy)

Posted in AIR, AS3, Flash, Flex, News, Programming, Site-seeing | 2 Comments

How Ironic – Aviary is a CS3 competitor built with Adobe products

Posted on November 26, 2007 by Mims H Wright

Aviary is a platform ecosystem for people who create. It is organized around a suite of Flex-based rich internet applications geared for artists of all genres. From image editing to typography to music to 3D to video, we have a … Continue reading →

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