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Type Parameters: How to Force Type Check of a Collection Class

February 29th, 2008 at 5:14 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in ActionScript3, Flash, Flex



This apply with EcmaScript 4.0,Francis Cheng made a clear explanation of how to use Type Parameters to add type checking in a collection class.
Very useful, now when will AS3 and JS be compatible with this new format ? Well be patient (and try to stay young and fresh :p)
Ahmet

Convincing your Boss to Use AIR – Step #1

February 29th, 2008 at 3:38 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in AIR, Adobe, Experiment, Flex, Marketing, Point of View, RIA



In an over charged world of projects management and ideas, it sometimes hard to gather the attention to the ultimate decider (your boss or yourself) to use new technologies.
I started at the beginning of this week to seed (and water it  ) my boss brain with new possibilities with AIR. Some techniques worked greatly [...]

Programmatic Visualizations in AIR – Drawing API for Business Needs

February 28th, 2008 at 11:43 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in AIR, ActionScript3, Adobe, Flash, Flex, RIA



Interesting online presentation by Andrew Trice about ‘Programmatic Visualizations in AIR’ with Flex.
Full of nice examples, it’s already a bit old (November 2007) but you may have missed it, as I did :)
Access to the recorded presentation (Adobe ID is needed)
Download source code
Ahmet

Why? Videos from the AUGG :)ooooo

February 27th, 2008 at 5:50 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in AIR, Adobe, Flash, Flex, Point of View, Videos



Monday we had the AUGG (Adobe User Group Genève) meeting to celebrate the release of Adobe AIR and FLEX 3.0. I had a camera recorder during the meeting and I asked several questions (Why AIR? Why Flex? Why Flash? Why Not Silverlight?). The answer are funny & serious at the same time :)
If you want [...]

Flash is not open-source for the moment, but we are not against it

February 25th, 2008 at 11:49 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Adobe, Flash, Flex, RIA, Videos, Web Design



Interesting article from Ecrans.fr where they interviewed Simon Hayhurst, director of video numeric products at Adobe, and Frédéric Massy, marketing director, about the presence of Adobe and his future.
Read the translated version (originally text is in French).
Here are a few interesting quotes:
[...]Flash is not in fact open-source for the moment, but we are not against [...]

Adobe AIR is now 1.0! Welcome in a New World :=)

February 25th, 2008 at 10:45 am by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in AIR, ActionScript3, Adobe, Flash, Flex, RIA



Monday 25th of February, AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), already considered as a top ten technology by Technology Review (The MIT magazine) for offline web applications is send out in the Galaxy.
For more information you can also read the article from the New York Times on the impact of AIR.
If you didn’t started yet with AIR [...]

Using AC3 files with Premiere Pro, Thanks to Encore…

February 23rd, 2008 at 3:19 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Adobe, Videos



As a father I enjoy filming my family with a ‘customers camera’ that export files to MPG in AC3 format.
But as a possessor of Adobe Premiere Pro I would have been happy to work my movies. Unfortunately, Premiere Pro will not read the sound of any AC3 encoded files (certainly due to some licensing reasons).
Fortunately [...]

Adobe Flex 3 Builder is Out in the Galaxy!

February 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in ActionScript3, Adobe, Flex



Under the strange title of ‘ A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…’ Ted Patrick has just published a screenshot of the Flex Builder 3 while loading, so two month after the public Flex 3 Beta 3 the Flex team at Adobe finished their work :)
Version 3 build 3.0.194161

I’m afraid that the [...]

February 2008 Meeting, Adobe User Group Geneva

February 19th, 2008 at 3:42 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in AIR, Adobe, Flex, RIA



If you missed the news, please don’t forget that we will have our monthly meeting February the 25th at The Nomades.
Notre prochaine séance AUGG se déroulera le lundi 25 février à 18h30 au Nomades (map).
Au programme :
- Une présentation des nouvelles fonctionnalités de Flex 3, par Thierry Bertossa
- Une présentation sur AIR par Cédric Tabin.
- [...]

Adobe Director isn’t Dead!

February 19th, 2008 at 12:54 pm by Ahmet Gyger

Posted in Adobe



Since Director MX2004 (edited by Macromedia at that time), a lot of people lost hope in a future version of Director. Not a word about a possible version 11 went out through the door of Adobe.
So is Director 11 a good news? Most certainly, yes, but there are a few points that let me perplex…
1) [...]