Sep 25th, 2011
A super simple approach to Splash Screens for Flex Mobile Apps
If you are fairly new to mobile app development with Flash or Flex, I bet you have run into the following issue when creating your splash screens — You create a splash image that looks great when the device is held in portrait orientation: …but then when you turn it landscape, you get the white [...]
Sep 20th, 2011
VShieldUpdate process spiking CPU after Mac OS X Lion upgrade – FIX
I’m writing this article because it took me longer than expected to find an answer to this fairly simple problem. Hopefully this post will save you some time. Problem: After updating to OS X Lion, I noticed that the fans were spinning constantly and my battery was being quickly drained. A quick look at the [...]
Sep 20th, 2011
My Adobe MAX session – Migration to the Cloud – How Do I Get There?
During the past year, I’ve learned a lot about various cloud computing offerings including Amazon EC2 / S3 / CloudFront / Beanstalk / RDS / etc., Rackspace Cloud, Salesforce.com, Cloud Foundry, Heroku, and of course, the growing number of Adobe cloud-related offerings. I’ve also learned that “cloud” is probably the most overused word I’ve come [...]
Sep 8th, 2011
Finding the current location in your mobile app using Geolocation
Yesterday, I blogged about Geolocation. I thought it would be helpful to show some code that determines the current location in your app. CODE:
Sep 8th, 2011
Geolocation tips, quirks, and possible bugs (flash.sensors.Geolocation)
I’ve been working on a couple of apps recently that use the Geolocation APIs. I’ve discovered a few tips and quirks that I felt were worthy of sharing. Geolocation object There are two classes that you need in order to implement location in your app – Geolocation and GeolocationEvent. When you create a Geolocation object, [...]
Sep 6th, 2011
Flex versus ActionScript – the debate gets new life
A few days ago, a reader commented on my blog post, “The Flex Team discusses the future of Flex” and brought up the frequent debate of Flex versus ActionScript. This subject has been debated many times since Flex was born, but lately it is becoming a hot topic again, especially with developers shifting their focus [...]
Sep 3rd, 2011
Remember Adobe Flash?
HTML, JavaScript, CSS has made some incredible strides in the past few years. It’s now possible to do amazing things using capabilities built right into today’s browsers without the use of a plugin (and Adobe is building some killer tooling to help you take advantage of these new capabilities). In the past, the role of [...]
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