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MAX 2011

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:48:00 GMT

Just a quick note that I made a page for my photos from the Adobe MAX conference here.

Molehill Story

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:26:00 GMT

Video from the Molehill team:

FlashPlayer 11 and AIR 3 Announced

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:47:00 GMT

NOTE: To see all the features of Flash Player 11, go here.

Flash Player 11 was officially announced Wednesday, and will be publicly released in early October. FP 11 includes a ton of new features, including native JSON support (technically this was released on FP 10.3), Stage3D, and full native 64 bit support for Linux, Mac and Windows. AIR 3's new features include native extensions for mobile apps and captive runtime, where a developer can choose to embed the AIR runtime within their app.

Starling Framework Announced

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:22:00 GMT

Adobe just launched the Starling Framework today, in tandem with the official announcement of Flash Player 11. The Starling Framework allows simple AS3-style syntax access to Stage3D features, which means you can build 2D content that accesses the performance advantages of rendering on the GPU. Which, according to Adobe, will net you performance increases of up to 1000X. If you are a ActionScript 3.0 codes, and you were to access Stage3D features manually, you'd have to learn a whole new set of APIs, most of which are really low level. Starling provides a nice abstraction, and will let you code just like you were adding items to a normal Flash display list.

Starling was not developed in-house at Adobe, but rather by the people behind the Sparrow Framework. The Sparrow Framework is built along the same philosophies, but targeted at iPhone devs who want to leverage OpenGL without getting too deep into C.

Lee Brimelow already has a video up showing how to use it, so head over there and check it out! Or just head to the official site at http://www.starling-framework.org.

Events

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:00:00 GMT

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