Andrew Trice

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20100208 Monday February 08, 2010

Help Improve the Flash Platform!

The next beta releases of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 are inching closer, and now it is time for us to help Adobe ensure a quality product. Read more...

Posted by andrewtrice | Feb 08 2010, 10:52:40 AM EST

20100122 Friday January 22, 2010

Flash, Flex & Native 3D Transformations

Back with the release of Flash Player 10 last summer (yes, it's been that long), Adobe introduced native 3D transformations on visual objects in Flash. I've heard people say this isn't "all that", and been disappointed with it's capabilities, but I wanted to share a few examples that show it really is quite powerful. Read more...

Posted by andrewtrice | Jan 22 2010, 03:23:11 PM EST

20091120 Friday November 20, 2009

Join the Cynergy Team!

If you’re a Flex developer looking to take your game to the next level, Cynergy would really like to talk to you. Read more...

Posted by andrewtrice | Nov 20 2009, 08:14:27 AM EST

20091117 Tuesday November 17, 2009

AIR 2.0 Multitouch Examples

Now that the AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 betas are out and available for the public on Adobe Labs, I just wanted to post a little reminder that all of my multitouch examples from Adobe MAX are online at: http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/andrewtrice?entry=max_recap_multi_touch_development Read more...

Posted by andrewtrice | Nov 17 2009, 09:41:46 PM EST

20091105 Thursday November 05, 2009

Bypassing 16769025 pixel limit in FP 10

If you have ever tried to work with large images in Adobe Flex or Adobe Flash, you've likely run into this issue. Back in Flash Player 8/9, you couldn't have a display object larger than 2880x2880. Now, In Flash Player 10, you can create BitmapData objects that are up to 16769025 pixels (be it 4095x4095, 3353805x5, 2048x8191, or any other combination that is less than 16769025 total pixels). Read more...

Posted by andrewtrice | Nov 05 2009, 01:37:55 PM EST

20091013 Tuesday October 13, 2009

MAX Recap: Multi-Touch Development with Flex

Another great Adobe MAX event has come and gone, and I am excited to share the content from my presentation this year. Read more...

Posted by andrewtrice | Oct 13 2009, 04:18:57 PM EDT

20090610 Wednesday June 10, 2009

Cynergy.Congress - Flex 4 & Catalyst in the Wild

In case you may have missed Dave Wolf's post earlier today, Dave announced the release of Cynergy.Congress, a directory of the members of Congress, created using the Adobe Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder/Flex 4 workflow. In this post, we will walk through the details of the application, what it does, and how it was created. Read more...

Posted by andrewtrice | Jun 10 2009, 12:43:12 PM EDT

20090527 Wednesday May 27, 2009

Excerpt: Dynamic Skinning and the Drawing API

Here's another excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 25: Dynamic Skinning and the Drawing API. 8 authors contributed to the material in this book, and it is full of useful information. Go get it! Read more...

Posted by andrewtrice | May 27 2009, 01:37:35 PM EDT

Excerpt: Intro to MVC Frameworks

An excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 6hapter 60: Intro to MVC Frameworks. Read more...

Posted by andrewtrice | May 27 2009, 10:28:02 AM EDT

Excerpt: Modular Application Development

Here's another excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 66: Modular Application Development. Read more...

Posted by andrewtrice | May 27 2009, 10:00:03 AM EDT

20090526 Tuesday May 26, 2009

Excerpt: Application Performance Strategies

Here's an excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 67: Application Performance Strategies. Read more...

Posted by andrewtrice | May 26 2009, 03:38:30 PM EDT

20090429 Wednesday April 29, 2009

Experimenting With The New Flex 4 Animation/Effects Framework

The new Flex 4 Animation/Effects framework certainly looks to be promising. Here's a quick example showing how to use use MotionPath and Keyframe instances to create complex animations for rollOver and rollOut effects on Flex components. Read more...

Posted by andrewtrice | Apr 29 2009, 12:02:44 PM EDT

20090417 Friday April 17, 2009

Visualizing Your Taxes With Flex

This morning I stumbled upon this post on flowingdata.com; In the spirit of the recent "tax day" (taxes were due on April 15th), it provides a dataset showing the average of how many days you work for per year, just to pay your taxes. Read more...

Posted by andrewtrice | Apr 17 2009, 11:46:28 AM EDT

20090415 Wednesday April 15, 2009

Using Image Loops for Motion Graphics

I was recently chatting with Mike Wolf, our Principal Architect for .NET/Silverlight/WPF, and we stumbled upon an odd conclusion... Read more...

Posted by andrewtrice | Apr 15 2009, 04:36:51 PM EDT

20090410 Friday April 10, 2009

Adobe AIR, Windows 7 + Multi-touch

Here are the fruits of some R & D effort that I've been involved with here at Cynergy. Read more...

Posted by andrewtrice | Apr 10 2009, 09:06:02 AM EDT
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