Hi all, I first apologise for the long break from blogging. Yes, the last quarter has been busy as an evangelist at Nokia. Recently out of my love for Flash, I re-skinned one of my old keypad games and published it to the Ovi Store. It’s currently available for Free – limited period. Word Hunt is [...]
Yes, I have been away for blogging for quite sometime now and my apologies for the same. The last few months have been quite happening with new launches of innovative products by some companies like Adobe and some new events and work at an induvidual front as well. Now that I got a little bit [...]
Well, I have been doing a lot of small code UI components that are heavily reused. One such component that I made today was a game score ticker. Remember seeing scrolling numbers in lottery or jackpot genre games, where the numbers keeps flipping until a target number? If you have been playing games, you would [...]
Around last month, Blackberry introduced debug tokens that can be used to test/debug applications for developers in the Playbook. My good friend Mitch, wrote a blogpost on how to use the debug token. He describes the entire process in four steps Initial Requirements, which involves checking whether you have all the files necessary. Command Line and [...]
As I had mentioned in my previous post, I wrote an AIR application for the Blackberry Playbook, the newest of the tablets that run Flash. I got a Blackberry Playbook device yesterday and these are my early impressions – 1. Great hardware build and finish. When you have it in your hands, you get a [...]
Paul Trani, an Adobe Evangelist here describes the different contextual gestures that are possible on the Blackberry tablet – Playbook. He describes how to design and plan layouts that would best suit for the portrait and landscape orientations of the Playbook. Additionally, the tablet has specific gestures like the Xoom. The bezels of the Playbook are [...]
I have been quite busy over the last 1 month that I couldn’t spare sometime on blogging. The reason can be attributed to a lot of things 1. Rapid innovations and new toolkits in the Flash platform. 2. The new Nokia Microsoft deal 3. Cricket World Cup ;) There are a lot of good reasons [...]
This morning I received a note saying the free Playbook offer has been extended until March 15th. Read the amended terms and conditions page, from Blackberry site. So there is more opportunity for Adobe Flash / AIR developers.
I am writing this post after a Flash / Flex user group meeting. I am writing this post after seeing some of the unreleased or Alpha features of the next Flash player. I am writing this post after experiencing with the Molehill 3D Api. Flash is ubiquitous, from connected TVs to handphones, from PCs to [...]
Yes, this is something fascinating that I came across, this week and not something I generally blog upon. I must agree that there are many audio spectrum visualization schemes done on Actionscript 3. But this one, created by friends at office Mitch Ellis, is someway different. He has aggressively used colors, alphas and tweens to [...]
