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Work Flow Optimizations for Short Development Cycle Team

By Tom Barker
November 22, 2009

One of the responsibilities of being a technical manager is to optimize work flows and create self sustaining systems for the teams that you manage. One of my teams operates on an extremely short development cycle. They begin coding in...

5 Tips For Documenting Code

By Jesse Freeman
November 2, 2009

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over - 5 Tips for Documenting Code. Documenting code is not high on many people's lists of things todo. Most of the time it is boring, repetitive, and time consuming. If you want to get better at documenting your own code then this is the post for you. I have 5 simple rules to follow while coding to make the process easier.

Creating a comboBox in Flash Catalyst Beta 2

By Chris Griffith
October 23, 2009

The latest release of Flash Catalyst Beta 2 has brought us a lot closer to having a shipping application. We now have the ability to set a host of properties for each object, easier access to skin the wireframe components, and support for video and 3D rotation. Unfortunately, we do not have a full component set available to us. The reason behind not having all the components in Flash Catalyst is due to the different component architecture used in the Flex 4 framework (Spark) versus the Halo components used in the Flex 3 framework. Until a component has been rewritten in the Spark framework, Flash Catalyst cannot use it. The most notable absence is the comboBox. In this article I will show you a simple method to recreate one by creating a custom component. It is not perfect, but it just might be able to tide you over until we have an official component from Adobe.

Adobe WorkflowLab for Planning RIA Projects

By Andrew Trice
October 23, 2009

I just happened to browse over to Adobe Labs, and stumbled across WorflowLab, a workflow planning and sharing tool for building applications. I found it interesting, and decided to share it here. Read on for more detail.

Photoshop For Developers

By Jesse Freeman
October 14, 2009

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. Each AFT is designed to be quickly digested, usually only taking a few minutes to get up and running, and contains valuable information you can directly apply to your next Flash campaign. In this AFT I will go over - Photoshop for Developers.

Summer of Flash Episode 12 - David Macy and NJ

By Garth Braithwaite
October 2, 2009

David Macy (Senior PM for Illustrator) and NJ (Product designer and developer on Flash Catalyst) join us to talk about using Illustrator in RIA workflows. We also discuss the keynote from FOTB and upcoming MAX announcements. Experts: Leif Wells,...

Flash Developer Guerrilla Workflow

By Jesse Freeman
September 8, 2009

About Advance Flash Tactics Advance Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. Each AFT is designed to be quickly digested, usually only taking...

Designer-developer workflow enhancements with Flash Catalyst

By Elad Elrom
August 14, 2009

Designer-developer workflow (D-D workflow) in conjunction with Rich Internet Applications (RIA) has become one of the most talked about buzzword in the Flash community in the last few years. It created a lot of debate and uncertainty on how designers and developers were going to work together. Now that Adobe Catalyst is public (since the release at the Adobe Max conference last year), and that we have had a chance to play around with the tool, I believe it’s time to open a discussion on how the direction the D-D workflow should be heading based on my experience. In this article I will talk about how Flash Catalyst (FC) should be used to allow designers and developers to work together.

20 Sounds that Must Live

By David Battino
March 30, 2009

Ted writes, "Enough with the Martian space-chime echoes! I just want five good bass sounds, five good keyboard sounds, five leads, and five pads that would sound good almost anywhere. If you could only have 20 synth sounds, what would they be?"

StartWithXML Research Report Now Available for Sale

By Andrew Savikas
February 4, 2009

If you weren't able to attend the StartWithXML Forum last month in New York, the accompanying research report is available for sale. The report covers topics like: Where am I...

Creative (Suite) Self-Destruction

By David Battino
December 23, 2008

What do you do when your primary creative tool stops working? It's an increasingly common problem as our tools become digital. I've lost great programs from companies that tanked, but when a program from a company that's still in business refuses to launch, it really chaps my hide.

Slides from "Essential Tools of an XML Workflow" Webcast

By Mac Slocum
December 12, 2008

Laura Dawson has made her slides available from the recent TOC Webcast, "Essential Tools of an XML Workflow." A complete recording of the event will be posted here soon. View...

The Right Toot for the Job

By David Battino
December 9, 2008

Rick Sammon's blog about photographing thousands of snow geese reminded me of an e-mail I got a while back from a world-champion duck caller. He was looking for a digital audio recorder. Here's what I suggested.

[TOC Webcast] Essential Tools of an XML Workflow

By Mac Slocum
December 8, 2008

Tools of Change for Publishing, in conjunction with StartWithXML, will host "Essential Tools of an XML Workflow," a free webcast with presenter Laura Dawson, on Thursday, Dec. 11 at...

Webcast Video: What Publishers Need to Know about Digitization

By Mac Slocum
December 5, 2008

Below you'll find the full recording from the recent TOC Webcast, "What Publishers Need to Know about Digitization," with Liza Daly....

Tasty Toast Backup Feature

By David Battino
June 18, 2008

A while back, Derrick Story wondered how valuable Roxio Toast still was, given the disc-burning features built in to Mac OS X. Well, Toast hasn't grown moldy; Roxio added a bunch of features right after Derrick's post came out. I've covered two obscure but very cool audio ones: the ability to make high-resolution and surround-sound DVDs. Here's another tasty Toast...

Universal Plain-Text Templates

By Jochen Wolters
February 26, 2008

Using templates is a major time-saver for those of us who need to create the same, or at least highly similar documents over and over again. But what do you do if a specific application does not support templates? As long as you're handling text files, there's a solution that works universally across your Mac.

Viewing Subfolder Contents in Adobe Bridge

By Colleen Wheeler
January 8, 2008

Adobe Bridge's Flatten View feature allows you to see all the contents of your subfolders in one window. Here's where to find that handy, if obscure, button in the Filter panel.

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