http://www.flashmagazine.com/site/rss0.92/ News and Articles en Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:12:40 +0100 http://www.flashmagazine.com/community/detail/starting_up_as_freelance_flash_designer/ Freelance recruitment site PeoplePerHour offers some hints and tips on how to improve your chances in the freelance Flash design market. http://www.flashmagazine.com/tutorials/detail/ten_tips_for_building_better_adobe_air_applications/ Now that we have just launched AIR 2, I figured it would be a good time to look back at all the AIR code I've written over the last few months and pick out some of the best snippets and concepts to share with the community. This article describes ten techniques I've used to improve performance, usability, and security of AIR applications, and to make the development process faster and easier. http://www.flashmagazine.com/reviews/detail/review_intellij_idea/ IntelliJ IDEA is a cross platform editor that really sweeps the competitors off the floor. Do you want a better workflow, snappy editor, refactoring that really works, solid code generation and fast intellisense? How about UML support? Flashmagazine takes a close look at the Java based editor that now offers Actionscript and Flex support. http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/gotoandski/ Did the ski season end too early? Want to go hiking on northern Europe's highest mountain? Want to learn the latest about Flash Player 10.1 and Android? Flash User Group Norway puts on a FlashCamp offering some serious high altitude Flashing 11-13th June. http://www.flashmagazine.com/community/detail/multi-mania_2010_2m10/ On May 10th and 11th, Multi-Mania in Kortrijk, Belgium opened it's doors for the 10th time. From it's start as "MultiMediaMadness", the event has grown from an awards show to a solid conference. Koen De Weggheleire is known to many as a speaker at international Flash conferences, but he is also the organizer of Multi-Mania, one of Europe's largest free Flash events. http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/adobe_loves_apple_and_choice/ Today Adobe launched a campaign in response to Steve Jobs 'Thoughts on Flash'. The campaign is spearheaded by Adobe founders Chuck Geschke and John Warnock, and the campaign site debunks the myths mentioned in Jobs open letter regarding touch, video, performance, security and openness. http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/the_flash_fight_continues/ Every time Apple CEO Steve Jobs speak, the world listens. His most recent letter is a solid attack on Adobe and Flash. Today the Wall Street Journal got to discuss Jobs letter with Adobe CEO and president Shantanu Narayen that says this is business, not software. http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/the_flex_show_-_uncut_edition/ If you're working with Flex on a daily basis, you've probably heard about The Flex Show - the longest running podcast in the Flash and Flex community. Now they have a special offer to get all the 2009 episodes on a USB stick as well as a high quality series of screencasts. http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/all_cs5_products_available_today/ Yesterday, Steve Jobs published a personal rant against Flash. Today, Adobe released all the new CS5 software. Steve sure has his way of timing things hasn't he? http://www.flashmagazine.com/reviews/detail/review_camtasia_1.1_for_mac_osx/ TechSmith have recently released new versions of their popular screen recording software Camtasia. In previous years we've reviewed the PC version (now on v7) so this time around we've taken a look at version 1.1 for Mac OSX.