The ADC Blog http://blogs.adobe.com/adc What's happening in the Adobe Developer Connection Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:55:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Launched: Adobe Developer Connection (ADC) feedback site http://blogs.adobe.com/adc/2012/01/launched-adobe-developer-connection-adc-feedback-site.html http://blogs.adobe.com/adc/2012/01/launched-adobe-developer-connection-adc-feedback-site.html#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:55:05 +0000 Edward Sullivan http://blogs.adobe.com/adc/?p=312 Today the Adobe Developer Connection launched a dedicated community feedback site.  The site is strictly for feedback on future content topics that our developers would like to see coming out of Adobe, with two main goals:

  1. Enable community members to submit ideas for future content topics that fellow community members can then vote up or down so we can evaluate the level of interest the community has in seeing the content around that topic
  2. Gauge audience interest in future content topics by posing the occasional poll question to the community

Community members are strongly encouraged to get involved in the feedback site by:

  • submitting an idea of your own
  • voting/commenting on the ideas submitted by others
  • providing input on a poll question

This input will play a pivotal role as future content strategies and topics are developed, so it is important to let your voice be heard!

Additionally, members of the ADC team will submit ideas of their own from time to time to solicit feedback on specific topics to gauge if it is something the community would find value in.  So again, your feedback is encouraged to help us vet ideas and be sure we are producing the content that best serves our communities.

The ADC team seeded the site with some initial content ideas and polls that we’d love to hear from you on:

Server Side JavaScript (idea) – I am interested in whether people would want to see articles and coverage on ADC of server-side JavaScript solutions like Node.js?

Mobile game development (idea) - Are you interested in articles or tutorials about developing mobile games?

Which game engines and frameworks do you use? (poll) – When developing a game, do you use any engines or frameworks?

You may view all current ideas listed here and all active polls are available here.

We are also looking for authors who are interested in writing articles around some of the ideas submitted, so if you see a popular idea that you’d like to explore writing on, please drop us an email to let us know.

Help us help you…get involved and provide some feedback today!

Ed Sullivan
Adobe Developer Connection
developer.adobe.com

NOTE: anyone can view the site, but you must be logged in to the forums before you can submit an idea, vote on a poll or leave a comment.

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/adc/2012/01/launched-adobe-developer-connection-adc-feedback-site.html/feed 2 What’s Cool in JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3 – Week of 1/23 http://blogs.adobe.com/adc/2012/01/whats-cool-in-javascript-html5-and-css3-week-of-123.html http://blogs.adobe.com/adc/2012/01/whats-cool-in-javascript-html5-and-css3-week-of-123.html#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:53:21 +0000 brinaldi http://blogs.adobe.com/adc/?p=308 As part of my job to find great authors and contributors for the ADC in the areas of HTML5 and JavaScript, I read a lot of posts from around the web on these topics. Many of these posts I find myself via Twitter or RSS feeds, while others I find through excellent resources like the JavaScript Weekly newsletter or DailyJS, among others. Those of you who follow me on either Twitter, Facebook or Google Plus will find that I regularly share these links as I find them. However, I thought it would be a useful resource to compile these each week so as to have a single, easy-to-bookmark resource listing all of best of the past week’s posts (at least, the best in my opinion). Therefore, this week, I decided to begin a new series of posts on my blog doing just that. The first of these posts I put up this morning covering 17 really great JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 resources you should check out, if you haven’t already.

While the post collects links from all across the community (i.e. not just Adobe), I would like to take a moment and recognize a few of this week’s contributions from Adobe and our awesome evangelism team:

Please let me know if you find these posts useful and if there is any way I can make them better.

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To date the ADC has donated over $63,000 to these charities through the program in recognition of our ADC authors. To our ADC authors, we thank you for sharing your technical expertise with the greater developer community while helping other communities at the same time!

Read on to find out more about the charities that the program supports, and to see the list of authors for this quarter who made these contributions possible!

* Benetech: Creates new technology solutions that serve humanity and empower people to improve their lives.

* Nature Conservancy: Works around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.

* Mercy Corp: Alleviates suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities.

* Care: Fights global poverty by serving individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world.

* Feeding America: Is the nation’s largest charitable hunger-relief organization.

The authors who participated in this program from September 1, 2011 – November 30, 2011 are:

  • Tom Green
  • Joseph Labrecque
  • Denis Bulichenko
  • Alex Liebert
  • Morten Sandholdt
  • Itai Asseo
  • Laura Arguello
  • Dan Carr
  • Ian Devlin
  • Greg Veen
  • Greg LaFrance
  • Nithiyanandam Dharmadass
  • Jack Freudenheim
  • Ben Lyons
  • Pete Freitag
  • Tommi West
  • John Ulliman
  • Justin Moses

Thank you, authors, for your contributions to the ADC!

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With the help of the user community and several Adobe employees, we have identified a list of recipe requests that we feel would be valuable contributions to the Adobe Cookbooks as well as for the larger Adobe community.  All that these requests need now are answers…and that’s where the challenge comes in!

For every recipe request below, the community member who provides the solution will receive:

  1. An Adobe Developer Connection t-shirt
  2. A chance at a Samsung 10.1 tablet

This is how it works: answer a recipe request associated with this promotion (any on the list below), then send an email to Ed Sullivan at Adobe (esulliva at adobe dot com) with a link to the recipe you published, your mailing address and your t-shirt size.  In addition to the t-shirt, you will also receive one entry into the drawing for the tablet.  If you answer two recipe requests, you would be entitled to two t-shirts and would receive two entries into the tablet drawing.  At this time we are asking that no one answer more than five of the recipe requests.  For those who do the maximum, that would mean that you have a 5 chances to get the tablet, in addition to enough t-shirts to outfit a family of five.  There are less than 30 eligible recipe requests in the challenge, so if you provide solutions to just 3 of them for example, you’d have better than a 10% shot at the tab!

Solutions will be reviewed and any that are deemed incorrect or incomplete will be deleted and the request will be returned to the pool of eligible requests.

Details around the process of answering a recipe request are below.  And as always…happy coding!

Ed Sullivan
Adobe Developer Connection
developer.adobe.com

Answering a recipe request:

You must have an adobe.com membership ID as you must be logged in to adobe.com to answer a recipe request (if you do not have one, you may create one here.)  If you arrive to the recipe request already logged in to adobe.com, you will see an “Answer” button.  Click this button and you will be ready to roll.  If you are not logged in when arriving at the page, you will see a “Login to answer or vote” button.  Click that button, login and you will be brought back to the recipe request page and the “Answer” button should now be present.  Click that button and you should be good to go.

The subsequent screen after clicking the “Answer” button is the recipe submission template.  Since this was originally a recipe request, the title and problem fields will be pre-populated with the information from the recipe request.  It is up to you to fill in the solution field and the detailed explanation field.  Once you have completed that, simply publish your recipe and you’re done!  You are also free to tweak the title and/or problem fields if you think it is necessary.

List of eligible recipe requests to answer (note: as requests get solutions provided to them, the links below will point to the solutions rather than the requests.)

 

ALL REQUESTS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED!

How do I use a stencil buffer to create a reflection?

How do I add a trend line to a chart?

How do I create an AIR app on iOS that plays audio while in the background?

How do I perform a multicolumn sort in a Spark DataGrid?

How can I override the default mapping of the XML or XMLList class to JSON using the Flash Players built-in JSON support?

How do you dynamically change a Button’s color?

How do I access the front-facing camera on a mobile device in AIR? >>> How do I access the front-facing camera on a mobile device in AIR?

Can you provide an example of how to create a linear and radial gradient using only ActionScript?

How do you connect your mobile application to a PHP back end using Flash Builder for PHP?

How do I pre-populate form fields using data from a PHP service?

How can I access the exif data for images from the CameraRoll or CameraUI classes?

How do I display a PDF file in an AIR desktop application?

How do I move the ActionBar to the bottom of a Flex mobile app?

How do I disable an item in a mobile item renderer?

How do I use complex objects as dataproviders in the Spark DropDownList control?

How do I use color transforms in FXG? >>> How do I use color transforms in FXG?

How can you add bitmap data to the CameraRoll on Android and iOS devices?

How can you compress and uncompress ByteArray data?

How can I launch other applications using a URI scheme?

How do I create an AIR application for Android that doesn’t require the AIR runtime to already be installed on the device?

How do I create a Shape object in Flash Professional?

How can I use Typekit fonts in a WebKit view in AIR?

What is the most efficient way to represent data on a grid in ActionScript 3?

I’m new to ActionScript 3, what is the best practice for class and method statements like override, protected, and others?

How do I use FXG XML markup in Shape subclasses?

How can I proxy multiple event types to the same event callback function?

 

 

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To date the ADC has donated over $60,000 to these charities through the program in recognition of our ADC authors. To our ADC authors, we thank you for sharing your technical expertise with the greater developer community while helping other communities at the same time!

Read on to find out more about the charities that the program supports, and to see the list of authors for this quarter who made these contributions possible!

* Benetech: Creates new technology solutions that serve humanity and empower people to improve their lives.

* Nature Conservancy: Works around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.

* Mercy Corp: Alleviates suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities.

* Care: Fights global poverty by serving individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world.

* Feeding America: Is the nation’s largest charitable hunger-relief organization.

The authors who participated in this program from June 1, 2011 – August 31, 2011 are:

  • David Powers
  • Jeanette Stallons
  • Chris Converse
  • Matthew David
  • Stephanie Rewis
  • Sunil Nair
  • Adam Tuttle
  • Tigran Najaryan
  • Mansour Raad
  • Justin Moses
  • Nithiyanandam Dharmadass
  • Niall O’Donovan
  • William van Weelden
  • Ross Przybylski
  • Jesse Freeman
  • Lou Barber
  • Dmitriy Yukhanov

Thank you, authors, for your contributions to the ADC!

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That’s all for now…enjoy!

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To date the ADC has donated over $56,000 to these charities through the program in recognition of our ADC authors. To our ADC authors, we thank you for sharing your technical expertise with the greater developer community while helping other communities at the same time!

Read on to find out more about the charities that the program supports, and to see the list of authors for this quarter who made these contributions possible!

* Benetech: Creates new technology solutions that serve humanity and empower people to improve their lives.

* Nature Conservancy: Works around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.

* Mercy Corp: Alleviates suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities.

* Care: Fights global poverty by serving individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world.

* Feeding America: Is the nation’s largest charitable hunger-relief organization.

The authors who participated in this program from March 1, 2011 – May 31, 2011 are:

  • Greg Hamer
  • Liz Myers
  • Tommi West
  • Dan Carr
  • Chris Georgenes
  • Pedro Claudio
  • Elad Elrom
  • Holly Schinsky
  • David Hassoun
  • Fabio Sonnati
  • Jamie Scanlon
  • Denis Bulichenko
  • Ray Blaak
  • David Powers
  • Brian Wood
  • Jeanette Stallons
  • Matthew David
  • Andrew Trice
  • Emily Kim
  • Greg Lafrance
  • Gaurav Pandey
  • Damian Piccolo
  • Esteban Yofre
  • Omar Gonzalez
  • Deke Smith
  • Ken Nelson
  • Kevin Schroeder
  • Nicholas Kwiatkoski
  • Peiter Buick
  • Ben Lyons
  • Chris Gross
  • Mak Pandit
  • Neil Perlin
  • Peter Grainge
  • Ross Przyblyski

Thank you, authors, for your contributions to the ADC!

]]> http://blogs.adobe.com/adc/2011/06/adc-write-give-program-3.html/feed 0 Flash Platform Community unites to help Japan http://blogs.adobe.com/adc/2011/03/flash-platform-community-unites-to-help-japan.html http://blogs.adobe.com/adc/2011/03/flash-platform-community-unites-to-help-japan.html#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:21:05 +0000 Edward Sullivan http://blogs.adobe.com/adc/?p=241 Well the Flash community is at it again with their Flash Community Cares site.  This time they are raising money for the relief effort in Japan.  Items available for bid include software and conference tickets and 100% of the auction proceeds will go to the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund – a GlobalGiving Project.

More items to be added for bid over time, so be sure to check the Flash Community Cares site for updates.

A special thanks to all the folks who made this auction possible.  Special thanks to the organizers of 360Flex and FATC events for their donations as well as to Chuck Freedman.

Also, thanks in advance to all the bidders who will make these donations possible.

Happy bidding!

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Overview of video for Flash – Start things off right with this overview of key concepts and terminology related to web video and video formats.

Progressive and streaming video for Flash – Examine the variety of options for delivering video to Flash Player.

Capturing and encoding video for Flash – Learn how prerecorded web video is encoded and how to get best results when capturing video.

Adding video to a web page – Learn the two general approaches to adding video to web pages: using Dreamweaver or Flash.

Synchronization and captions in video for Flash – Get an overview of the key concepts involved in content synchronization and captioning.

NTSC and PAL video standards – Understand key concepts related to the NTSC and PAL video standards.

The video learning guide for Flash Professional introduces core concepts of video on the web, and provides you with tools for developing your skills.

 

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To date the ADC has donated over $53,000 to these charities through the program in recognition of our ADC authors. To our ADC authors, we thank you for sharing your technical expertise with the greater developer community while helping other communities at the same time!

Read on to find out more about the charities that the program supports, and to see the list of authors for this quarter who made these contributions possible!

* Benetech: Creates new technology solutions that serve humanity and empower people to improve their lives.

* Nature Conservancy: Works around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.

* Mercy Corp: Alleviates suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities.

* Care: Fights global poverty by serving individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world.

* Feeding America: Is the nation’s largest charitable hunger-relief organization.

The authors who participated in this program from December 1, 2010 – February 28, 2011 are:

  • Raymond Camden
  • Jack Wilber
  • Donald Booth
  • Dann Carr
  • Justin Putney
  • David Hassoun
  • Joseph Magly

Thank you, authors, for your contributions to the ADC!

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