By Michael W. Dean
Your videos got their 15 minutes of fame on YouTube. Now what? Follow this straightforward intro to RSS syndication and you can make your videos downloadable, savable, and playable on the millions of iPods out there.
The Scalenine "Skin To Win" challenge ends October 10th. If you're a Flex or AIR developer and you haven't gotten in on this action, what are you waiting for? There's a Macbook AIR, MAX tickets and more on the line. Get on it!
I'm not entirely sold on the fact that the title of this series is completely fitting. At least, it certainly feels a tad bit on the ironic side given the breadth of my experience as an interactive developer. Project Management from the Developers Perspective. This suggests that I have a viewpoint - or at the very least, have a vantage point to “see things”. The reality of my experience has taught me in some of the most brutal ways, that more often than not, I’m too busy assuming the position to actually be able to have one.
Adobe released this video about CS4 on Adobe TV on Wednesday. It's long - about an hour - and contains just about everything you'd ever want to know about CS4.
KitchenSync is an up-and-coming ActionScript 3.0 library for sequencing animations and other time-based actions. The project is focused on giving developers a smarter way to handle animation or other time-based, rather than frame-based, functionality with code. The whole project is geared towards using standard OO practices to make time-based synchronization easier on developers.
Creator Mims Wright recently announced a Kitchen Sync demo contest which has generated some buzz around my office and got me interested in the project. The winners will have their entries demoed at the upcoming <head> conference.
I recently caught up with Mims and had the opportunity to ask him some questions about the project. If you haven't heard of Mims before, he's a great developer who co-authored the Actionscript 3.0 Bible and has done a lot of great Flash work in his career. Mim's is a really friendly guy and agreed to an interview about KitchenSync.
If you've been living under a rock this week, you may not have heard that the first phone using Google's Android platform was released to the public. This is the first significant competitor to the iPhone. Neither the iPhone or Android is the first mobile computing, communications and entertainment appliance; this is a growing space, and undoubtedly the choice of technology and platform will be more of a hot button topic in the years to come.
Your videos got their 15 minutes of fame on YouTube. Now what? Follow this straightforward intro to RSS syndication and you can make your videos downloadable, savable, and playable on the millions of iPods out there.
Want to play MP3s on your site (or others')? Here's a super-easy way, an easy yet highly customizable way, and an offbeat experimental way — and each one is free. From one-click page-hacking to automatic e-commerce, these three web audio players point the way to a musical online future.
Don't settle for cruddy looking, dismal sounding YouTube video. Follow our insider tips and you can upload, watch, and share movies that look and sound dramatically better. We even explain how to make the ultimate poster frame or "money shot."
In parts of the Flash community, ActionScript 3.0 seems to have gained a reputation for being hard - particularly among those who have not yet tried the new language. Colin Moock, author of Essential ActionScript 3.0, explores this issue and offers code examples comparing earlier versions of ActionScript to version 3.0.
QuickTime is still the best-looking, most flexible way to present video on the web. Here's how to present multiple movies on a single page, launch a movie in fullscreen mode, and even play a sequence of movies automatically.
Our simple tutorial on building an online MP3 player inspired hundreds of you to ask for enhanced features. Now you can grab our latest code and experiment yourself.