Disney Preschool Time Online AIR App
Disney Launched an AIR Application for Preschool Time Online and it is really, really good.
Swapping Between FP 10 and 10.1 playerglobal.swc in Flash CS5 – Publish Settings
If you want to swap between targeting Flash Player 10.1 and 10 (because the two are pretty different) in Flash CS5 its actually a little easier than I first thought.
@DeeSadler’s Speaker Group Meetup
Just a couple days ago, Dee Sadler held the first Speaker Group Meetup online over Adobe Connect. This is a great idea. Think Toastmasters or Ignite but geared towards conference / demo public speaking and online instead of actually going to a physical meeting place. Dee’s goal is to have multiple smaller talks, much like Ignite, to get practice for public speaking as well as hearing from veteran speakers. Check out the Speaker Group if you are looking to get some extra experience, hear some of the experts, learn some great knowledge about public speaking or even get your feet wet for the first time.
You can get the first meeting here.
Follow Dee on twitter to keep up with when and where the meetings will be.
Next online meet is on September 21st. Hope to see you there!
Thoughts on Feedback
Reading a few blog posts and their subsequent comments the other night I was reminded what I despised about art school. One of the most troublesome things about critiques in college was niceness.
Many comments on someone’s slideshare post was “that’s awesome,” “thanks for this great information,” “your design work is so nice.” etc. (of course I’m paraphrasing here). So much feedback we hear and see on the work we do is praise. The amount of “I <3 U’s” is obnoxious. This is especially prevalent in the design world.
Bad Design: Disney Video Page
Where’s the video?
Really? Why hide your content? And with such a small player?
This can be found here.
Selling Desktop AdSpace for Charity at 360|Flex
In September I’ll be giving 2 presentations at 360|Flex. One of which will be showing a number of AIR applications which will have my desktop visible quite a bit. So here’s the deal, I’ll be selling ad space on my desktop wallpaper. All proceeds from ad sales will be donated to charity. I have decided on Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Setting up for Android Development (MAC)
So you want to do develop for Android. Let’s go through how to set up the SDK and such real fast.
Flash Platform Logos
It appears the new Flash Platform (AIR 2 and Flash Player, CS5 style) Logos are terribly hard to find in vector, so I made them.
You can grab them here in Illustrator format.
Enjoy and Happy Flashing!
Speaking at 360|Flex DC!
This is awesome. The 360|Flex speaker line up and schedule is up and on it you’ll find my name!
Not just once, but twice.
Why You Can’t Use Test Movie in Flash IDE for FP 10.1
First of all, if you have not gotten ready for Flash Player 10.1 by integrating the playerglobal.swc into either Flash CS4 or CS5 you can read up on how to do that here.
Now, after many questions, I thought I would dive into why using Test Movie (cmd(cntrl)+enter) from Flash CS4 always gives “ReferenceError: Error #1065″ when trying to use a 10.1 specific function. This happens even after updating the Stand Alone players.
