Winning Strategies for Social Video

You want to take advantage of the social media revolution and you have a great a idea focused around online video. You want to experience some of the growth and success you’ve witnessed YouTube, Tout, Instagram and others achieve. What were the catalysts that madeREAD MORE

Developing Scalable Mobile Video Chat Applications

I’m making the assets and workbook from my lab at Adobe MAX available for download. The attached ZIP contains the following:

• L2709_Presentation.ppt
• L2709_Workbook.pdf
• FlashP2PLib.fxpl
• MAX2011MobileVideoChat.fxp
• EyeChat.fxp
• EyeChatDesktop.fxp

The last two projects are completed versions that you can use for testing or to skip ahead.

I plan to follow up with posts related toREAD MORE

Devising a Social Media Strategy

You’ve noticed the trend, businesses around the globe are embracing social media. Now, you want to harness that same power for your business. First, you need a social business strategy that makes sense for your business. In order to do that, you must consider theREAD MORE

Using Owned Native Window Functionality with Spark Windows

The release of AIR 2.6 brought about a lot of enhancements and features. One of which was owned native windows. What’s special about this is it makes it easy to have a main window that owns other windows, which is ultra-useful for applications that makeREAD MORE

To Offshore or Nearshore? That Is The Question!

In recent years, outsourcing has emerged as a viable means for an organization to contract out a business function, that was previously performed in-house, to an external vendor/provider. The functions targeted can include areas such as business, knowledge or engineering processes, among others. Typically, anREAD MORE

Using ANT to Compile a Flex Mobile Project for iOS

It’s 3am. You have a sexy Flex mobile project that takes full advantage of the Hero SDK and its Spark mobile components. You’re dying to deploy to iPhone and iPad but unfortunately, you either have to build your app using Adobe’s iPhone packager via theREAD MORE

Why IPv6 is a Big Thing

It’s the nature of the universe that all things come to an end. It’s also human nature to dread this universal fact. We tend to look at this “end” as a loss of the permanent variety and we simply hate to lose things when that lossREAD MORE

Google Analytics for Air Applications

After uncovering very little info on the subject, I decided to write about how you can use Google Analytics (GA) to monitor usage of an AIR application. Implementation isn’t complex but it does require putting some thought into what you actually want to track sinceREAD MORE

BlackBerry PlayBook – Calling All Developers

Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock for the past month, you’ve probably heard that Research In Motion (RIM), creator of the infamous BlackBerry smartphone, is soon to release an entry into the tablet market: The BlackBerry PlayBook. This device will definitely have an impactREAD MORE

Flex 4 – Dynamic FXG Path Data

You’ve created a component skin in Flash Catalyst CS5 that you want to use in a Flex 4 application. Your skin design involves a spark.primitives.Path object whose width you want to scale dynamically based on display state changes.

Here’s what happens when you try to scaleREAD MORE