Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts tagged with developer tools
10/15/2009
Designing iPhone apps using Adobe Flash CS5 and AIR
Arguably the biggest announcement from Adobe’s MAX conference last week was the (future) ability to create iPhone applications using Flash CS5. There were several sessions that materialized shortly after the announcement, but this session by Arno Gourdol was by far the most useful and practical. Check out the video below.
09/11/2009
Four major Facebook Upgrades
Over the last 24 hours Facebook has made four important announcements. Not shy about going head to head with Apple’s music announcements (or Twitter) they announced Facebook Lite, @replies, a Facebook Desktop Notifier for Mac and Tornado an open source framework for real-time web services. Facebook Lite Facebook Lite launched in the US and India, [...]
11/16/2008
Two great services for Flash Lite developers
While building a Flash Lite prototype I stumbled upon two really great resources for developers both by Kuneri, an amazing Flash Lite company based in Finland. The first is Swf Pack. It’s an online tool that lets you package up a Flash Lite application, assets and icons into a single .sis file that can be [...]
10/22/2008
Featured Speaker at the Adobe CS4 Launch Event in NYC
Tomorrow I will be demoing the new features of Flash, Dreamweaver and Device Central the Adobe Creative Suite CS4 launch event in New York City. At Atlantic we’ve been working very closely with several teams at Adobe and will be showing off some of our new work made possible by CS4 – specifically around the [...]
05/15/2008
SWFObject 2.0
SWFObject 2.0 improves greatly upon version 1.5 by adding some fundamental changes to how the Flash embedding technology works. Instead of having an all Javascript embed, and a HTML backup, there is inline object code to help degrade more gracefully in browsers with Javascript support disabled. Also there is no ugly, cumbersome js code in the [...]
05/03/2008
Flash Version Switcher
Alessandro Crugnola at Sephiroth.it (who makes the awesome actionscript editor SE|PY) has released a Flash Plugin switcher for Firefox on Mac, PC and Linux. The functionality to switch between multiple Flash plugins has been around for a while on the PC, but it’s great to see it finally coming to the Mac. Get the Flash [...]
04/26/2008
sIFR
We are using sIFR on a few of our sites, and people seem to be asking about it a lot recently. A short description and links below. sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that [...]
04/26/2008
Xray
Xray is an open source debugger for Flash that blows away Flash’s built in (aenemic) debugging tool. Xray lets you dig into any object easily, do advanced tracing and execute runtime code to debug your Flash/Flex apps. It has two parts: a tiny component that drops into your Flash movie and a desktop or browser [...]
04/26/2008
Swf Address
SWF address is a small Flash/Flex library that allows deep linking within Flash. Flex 3 seems to have addressed a lot of the issues this code solves, but without this deep linking in Flash is still intense to implement and hard to maintain. Check out Swf Address.
