Chuck FreedmanOn November 5, Ribbit will officially be blowing 7 different kinds of smoke at our Spawn developer event. Seriously, the team has been hard at work, in some cases, auto-generating code so that you, no matter where you are in the world, and no matter what level coder you are, can make your phone ring [...]
Archive | October, 2009
Learning Silverlight in the dark
Dear Microsoft, I’m a career long Flash designer and developer. I have used Flash Professional and Flash Builder (a.k.a. Flex Builder) just about equally now, over this time, which means I’ve spent about the same amount dragging/dropping/drawing symbols in Flash Pro as I have writing AS/MXML in an Eclipse environment. I’ve approached projects starting on [...]
Moon Writing
I was watching a movie late last night when a sharp light caught my eye out of the living room skylight window. I looked up and noticed the moon was glowing bright, hiding deep behind the bare autumn branches of a tree. I took a closer look and, with a head clear of stress and [...]
(Video) Stereo Microphone in Flash and AIR
I recently posted this HD recording of me demoing the Stereo Microphone portion of my Visualizing Voice presentation. The video features the C# and AIR applications using Merapi I built to pass stereo channel data to control various Flash UI elements by speaking into a USB stereo microphone. I had the pleasure of giving this [...]
Flash Microphone Opened (Victory Post)
We did it! It took less than 9 months for our getMicrophone() campaign to take effect. I’ve summarized all the Adobe MAX related Microphone news at getMicrophone.com. http://www.getmicrophone.com/?p=85 I can’t wait until the betas for AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 start rolling out. Now, what’s next for getMicrophone? I think it will make a [...]
Visualizing Voice will be streamed today
Those who have yet to see my Visualizing Voice presentation can see it live streamed today. The cool and innovative folks at Influxis are streaming the FITC Unconference live from MAX. http://fitc.influxis.com/ I’m on at 11:30 AM PST (2:30 PM EST), today (Wednesday, Oct 7). Here is the full scheduled: http://www.fitc.ca/events/schedule/?event=100 See you online!
My strategy at MAX
As Flash developers, we’re gifted with an incredible array of fun, educational and inspirational conferences. This week is MAX, the Super Bowl of all Flash events. Why? This is where we learn things about the products that fuel our livelihood. While there are various new features and product previews leaking out throughout the year and [...]
