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What HTML5 Means For Flash

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• Flash Player 3D is Coming Soon!

  Well just when we thought there couldn’t be much more excitement after the launch of CS5, AIR Android & Google TV… Thibault Imbert, Product Manager at Adobe, released a blog post titled, Flash Player 3D Future session at Max 2010 (http://www.bytearray.org/?p=1836). In this post, he hints at many improvements for supporting 3D in Flash including better textured z-buffered triangles and GPU acceleration.

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  - LEE GRAHAM

• The Minority Report

  With the now infamous letter from Steve Jobs bashing Adobe Flash and supposedly explaining why Apple will not allow Flash content on its i-everything devices, developers steeped in Adobe Flash and Flex technologies have to be pondering the future of their craft. Fortunately, for us, Mr. Jobs’ letter isn’t the last word in this already fartoo-long saga of tech industry titans.

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  - JOHN MARX

• SourceMate: An ActionScripter’s Toolbox

  I first learned about SourceMate by ElementRiver (http://www.elementriver.com/sourcemate) during a presentation of Flash Builder 4 at our local Flash Users group. The presentation was put on by Lee Brimelow and he said it was a must-have tool to go with Flash Builder. I immediately looked into the tool and found it invaluable to every day coding situations.

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  - LOUIS DICARRO

• ENTITY Data Interchange Evolved

  Finding the parent of a Flex 3 control is easy, but the parentage of a Flex 4 control is harder to pin down. In this article we look at some ways of tracking down the visible parents of Spark components.

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  - WAYNE IV MIKE

• Setting up model-driven development with LiveCycle Data Services ES2

  LiveCycle Data Services ES2 is an important component for many companies migrating to a three-tier architecture for enterprise RIA development.

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  - SUJIT REDDY G, DUANE NICKULL, MICHAEL PETERSON

• The right SmartfoxServer protocol for multiplayer games

  SmartfoxServer is a popular tool to create multiplayer games. It has different communication protocols that you can use to exchange messages between the clients. In this article you will learn about each of those protocols and see how they perform in a real situation.

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  - FERNANDO BEVILACQUA

• Monetizing Your Web Game Part 1

  Currently there are many choices when it comes to monetizing a web game and it can be daunting for a developer to decide which model is best for him or her. On top of this, there are conflicting reports as to which models are truly lucrative.

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  - CHRIS HUGHES

• Using Flash Capabilities in Flex Apps

  Being accessible via Internet, our RIA applications must provide the user with a unique experience. One of the most common ways to achieve this kind of experience is localizing the user interface. With flash.system.Capabilities we will be able to do this and many other interesting things in the application we develop.

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  - MARCELO PIRES

• The Ultimate Checkbox List Pattern

  Flex 4 containers are not close relatives of Flex 3 Containers. If you want to avoid family feuds, you need to take care of the children. In this article, we’ll find out how.

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  - RICHARD C HAVEN

• Flex 4 Parental Concerns

  Finding the parent of a Flex 3 control is easy, but the parentage of a Flex 4 control is harder to pin down. In this article we look at some ways of tracking down the visible parents of Spark components.

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  - HUW COLLINGBOURNE

• Flex and PHP Charting

  One of the places where Flex and PHP go really well together is in creating data visualizations.

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  - KEVIN SCHROEDER, RYAN STEWART

• Building Expert Systems in Flash with Exsys Corvid Add Complex Logical Processing to Flash Dustin Huntington, President of Exsys Inc.

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• Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 Classroom in a Book

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