http://www.flashmagazine.com/site/rss0.92/ News and Articles en Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:52:55 +0100 http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/stage3d_for_ipad_and_iphone/ At the recent FITC Tokyo 2011 conference, Adobe's Lee Brimelow showed off some tech demos, based on Alternativa 3D, running on both the iPad and iPhone. While the videos are somewhat low quality, this really shows that Adobe is serious about gaming and not only on the desktop. http://www.flashmagazine.com/community/detail/flash_on_the_beach_2011_-_day_3/ The Elevator Pitch was a huge success last year and this year again it was a whirlwind tour of great ideas and projects that are strange, fun, stupid, clever and really everything in between. This day also held the surprise many talked about in the corridors - this was indeed the last Flash on The Beach http://www.flashmagazine.com/community/detail/flash_on_the_beach_2011_-_day_2/ This year there are no official parties at the conference. It's rather mingling at the hall of the Brighton Dome for a few hours and then people spread out all over the town. Most had no problem finding the myHotel bar or other good locations. After a good day 1, we were looking forward to the next one but we were hoping not to meet a closed door at sessions this time. http://www.flashmagazine.com/community/detail/flash_on_the_beach_2011_-_day_1/ The annual Flash extravaganza is on for the sixth year in a row and as usual, it's a mekka for Flash enthusiasts. The lineup is solid, the wind is solid, Adobe sneaks new features and the discussions go far into the night. Welcome to Brighton! http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/crocus_modeller_-_a_sweet_tool_for_developers/ Many years ago, Grant Skinner released a really useful tool for modeling your applications and exporting AS2 code. It was never updated to AS3, but now there's a great alternative: Crocus Modeller is an online UML modeling application for ActionScript 3 & Flex programmers that is free (for now) and full of features. http://www.flashmagazine.com/reviews/detail/review_blackberry_playbook_development_training/ Back in February we paid a visit to Academy Class in London to take a look at their iOS training. The quality of the course really impressed us, so we've been back again to check out their latest course: AIR Development for the Blackberry Playbook. http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/flash_player_11_and_air_3_betas_out_on_labs/ Adobe just gave us a summer present to play with - new runtimes! The Flash Player 11 beta is fully featured, containing all you need to get started. The AIR beta is limited to just the runtime (no SDK) and is provided only to test existing content. http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/flash_builder_4.5_and_flex_4.5_update_available_today/ Today, Adobe released the final version 4.5 of both the Flex SDK and the Flash Builder tool, allowing developers to easily target both iOS, Android and Playbook devices. Now it's easier than ever to get your Flash-based application out on Android Market, BlackBerry App World or Apple's App Store. http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/adobe_air_2.7_available/ Things are really happening with AIR these days and Adobe are iterating fast. Very fast. Just months after the release of AIR 2.6 comes a new version that is so much faster that it could almost warrant a non-dot release. http://www.flashmagazine.com/tutorials/detail/displaying_large_datasets_in_an_interactive_table/ Working with large datasets can be quite cumbersome and somewhat painful if not done properly. You risk incurring the wrath of impatient users and unresponsive servers. On top of that, creating an interactive table in HTML/JavaScript code that works perfectly in every browser is invariably a challenging task.