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Return to Developing Flex Backends with Dreamweaver CS5

By Arthur Lockman on June 30, 2010 10:20 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Return to Building PHP Backends for Flex Applications from Arthur Lockman on Vimeo.

Due to the amount of questions I had on my last video about writing backend scripts for Flex applications, I decided to remake that video to help answer those questions and really explain what I had made in more detail. Enjoy!

(PS: Try Full screen mode to get the full picture)

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Mac Daily News Absurdity

By Arthur Lockman on May 13, 2010 7:25 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

On what would seemingly be a normal and completely sane post with Woz giving his opinion on the whole Flash/Apple debate, there is a small portion under the video that I find a little disturbing. Let's take a look at what it says. Under the video, we see this little paragraph that has me completely baffled.

MacDailyNews Note:
Note to advertisers: (including those who advertise via third-party ad networks and become, in effect, our advertisers): Your Flash-based ads are no longer reaching the most well-heeled customers online: 50+ million iPhone owners. They're also not hitting 35+ million iPod touch users or 1+ million brand new iPad users. If you care about reaching people with discretionary income, you might want to consider dumping your flash-based ads and moving to a more open format that people with money and the will to spend it can actually see.

This to me is absurd. How can Mac Daily News honestly think that they are right in saying this? First of all, the iDevice market is not the biggest market out there as of right now. What about all those people who still use these neat things called computers to look at the internet? You're still reaching them if you advertise with flash. Maybe the mobile market is big, but the desktop market is still bigger. Also what gets me about this article is the fact that it says "if you care about reaching people with discretionary income..." Well let me tell you something. I have discretionary income and I do not own an iPad or iPhone or any such device. I know plenty of people with 'discretionary income' who do not own an iDevice. Therefore that statement is completely bogus. Another problem with this article that I have is that if you look at the bottom of the page it says "Help kill Adobe's flash". That has me mad. Why would they want to kill one of the most versatile and open desktop and mobile (android) platforms available? That to me makes no sense whatsoever. Also I think that Mac Daily News needs to hold themselves to their own standard and stop using the horrible adobe flash to display their videos. If HTML5 is really better according to them, they should use it themselves.

Dreamweaver CS5 - Writing simple backend scripts for Flash Builder

By Arthur Lockman on May 2, 2010 2:18 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

In this video, we take a look at writing simple scripts to send data to a Flex application using Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 and the PHP backend Server technology.

Adobe InDesign CS5 Interactivity Basics

By Arthur Lockman on May 2, 2010 2:15 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

In this video, we take a look at some of the new features in InDesign CS5. Most importantly, the new interactivity features that InDesign has. We'll build a simple multi-stated object and a button to control it all within InDesign CS5.

CS5 Is Here!!

By Arthur Lockman on May 1, 2010 4:06 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

As you all know, a great thing happened yesterday. Adobe started shipping CS5! So, with this new version of Creative Suite out in the wild, I am sure we will see some great new things emerge. I know that I for one am extremely excited about it. This weekend, I will post at least one new video about a new feature in CS5. I'm thinking that InDesign would be a good place to start. If anyone has anything specific they want to learn more about, drop me a reply or a comment and I'll fill you in.

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CS5 Tutorial Suggestions

By Arthur Lockman on April 25, 2010 10:59 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

As you all know, I have been making some tutorials recently for some of the new Creative Suite 5 products. Well, as you can imagine, I am soon going to run out of ideas for tutorials! So I ask you this. Give me any and all suggestions for tutorials to make about the up and coming Creative Suite 5. Anything is acceptable. So leave me some comments, or shoot me an email, or drop me a mention on twitter and let me know what you want to see.

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Creative Suite 5 Workflow - From Illustrator to Builder with some Catalyst in Between

By Arthur Lockman on April 24, 2010 2:11 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

In this video, we take a look at how to go from a design file to Flash Catalyst to Flash builder and beyond. We add basic transitions in catalyst and send it to Flash Builder for backend scripting. More to come, so stay tuned!

Adobe Flash Catalyst Workflow - From Design to Web

By Arthur Lockman on April 23, 2010 8:59 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

In this video, we take a look at moving your designs from Adobe Illustrator to the Web quickly and easily using Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5. We look at importing design files, and making sure that content looks the way it is intended to look. We add some state transitions, and basic text effects using the Effects panel. More to come, so stay tuned!