Flash The Ripper

With new phones and tablets appearing almost daily, how can you keep up with all the different screen sizes while maintaining an efficient workflow? In this tutorial, Paul Trani demonstrates how to use Flash Professional CS5.5 to efficiently target multiple screens using the Project panel, enhanced code snippets, and new publish settings.

With the upcoming Adobe Flex 4.5 SDK and Flash Builder 4.5 releases, Adobe is bringing the Flex SDK and Flash Builder to touchscreen smartphones and tablets as well.

Get the most of your web creativity today with HTML 5 – try the Dreamweaver CS5.5 now.

I feel like PlayBook is really nice thing to have –

And – not really fresh news, but a good Need For Speed Demo on PlayBook.

Constantin Kovalev has posted a good Flex improvement ideas on Adobe’s website — I think they are good to promote:

1. Cover all the Flex Framework with unit tests

On December 5-6, 2009 in Kyiv, the third conference of flash game developers, Flash GAMM Kyiv 2009 will fountain to encourage the Flash Games movement again, as it used to to two times before.
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This is a game for you, perfectionist flexer nerds. Go to hackr challenge, and test yourself, whether you know your Flex good:

Maybe, you know your Flex too bad, and it’s worth learning more Flex in a week?

The Hackr Challenge is the production of our Indian brothers. Namaskar!

Truly open-sourced Flexers post their results here, in comments, ok?

When some of Soviet adults played big and serious Cold War Game, the happy children of U.S.S.R. were spending their time in different way. The culture of arcade machine games was blossoming in both city and country side. To be honest, not every village have got its electronic playground made on military factories, but there was pretty plenty of, and I was one of that happy children who has access.

That time has gone as soon as Iron Curtain fell and cheap game consoles (Mario, we remember you too) and then PCs became available to the regular families. But memory lives, and there are people in Moscow who does remember the old-school Soviet Arcade games, a big metal boxes with fancy, colorful reality inside, with controls and buttons, with a lot of fun. Alexander Stelmakh have founded the Museum, there are some details in the Wired’s Soviet-Era Arcade Games Crawl Out of Their Cold War article.

Now, some of the Soviet Era Arcades are online and playable

And now anyone can visit the Museum of Soviet arcade machines, that just opened today! At the moment, only its Russian version is fully functional. But you can actually play the favorite arcade games of Soviet kids. We thank the Flash Developer of Artemy Lebedev Studio, Dmitry Bezverhii and Anton Sidorenko, we also want to respect the whole ArtLebedev Studio for this cool work. These games probably not for everyone, but here they are, virtual Arcade Mashines of the U.S.S.R. At present, only four have been created in flash, but I hope more to come:

• Play “Magistral“ (eng: “Thoroughfare”), read its translated description.
• Play “Morskoy Boy“ (eng: “Sea Battle”). This game seems to be a clone of “Midway’s Sea Raider”. Read translated description.
• Play “Gorodki“, old Russian Game, here’s translated description and article in Wikipedia.
• Play “Avtoralli“ (eng: “Rally”), read its translated description.

Also, there are a huge quantity of nice illustrations of the development process.

The question is, can these games be popular in wide auditory, except the fans of 8-bit art, old school and vintage junkies, and the ex-children of Soviet Union?

This is true: guys from FlaPhone is really making it possible and invite you to test it.

Official announcement: FlaPhone: Calls to Skype are now available.

Adobe Marketplace now promotes the FlaPhone AIR Application.

It seems to be a win start of SIP telephony. If only Adobe will make Mobile Flash Player which will be able to handle such calls, the world of mobile communications can change dramatically.

Kevin Hoyt from Adobe and Sam Stokes from Microsoft will have a debates on technologies, platforms and future today, 12 February 2009, 7:00 PM (PST/GMT +8), in the Bronco Student Center (Ursa Minor) at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. Microsoft and Adobe will demonstrate their evidences of domination. Adobe, who gave the world Photoshop, Flash, Flex, Dreamweaver and AfterEffects, engage developers to create cross-platform media prodigies online as well as a desktop applications, being able to run with or without the internet connection, which is possible with Adobe Integrated Runtime, or just AIR. Microsoft gives developers the opportunity of creation online applications which are full of media and animation with Silverlight and power of C#. Interesting.

Debates will be translated online in two options:

1. For users who have got a mid-bandwidth channel, higher quality.
2. For users with low-bandwidth, lower quality.

At the moment, a nice ballet is translated there, with interruptions sometimes.

By the way, Kevin Hoyt recently published an useful AIR application with sources, which itself is a set of 75 samples of JavaScript AIR applications with centralized launch interface. It worth looking inside, especially when you know how much power is in the JavaScript frameworks like ExtJS, which embraces the AIR too.