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Archive for 2008

I noticed a very interesting tutorial video (embedded below) last week from Seth Sandler on how to create your own low cost multitouch device. I followed along with the tutorial and had my own device working within a few minutes.
The only things you need are a cardboard box, a web cam (I use a [...]



After installing Aptana Studio, the Eclipse plugin version, it changes the standard Flex CSS editor to it’s own version. This gives you a lot of errors because of the syntax differences. Luckily this can be changed back to normal (Flex) by going to Window > Preferences > General > Editors > File Associations. Here you [...]



onAIR tour (Amsterdam) review

April 7th, 2008  |  3 Comments

Last Friday Adobe’s onAIR tour landed in Amsterdam, in the Beurs van Berlage building and I went to see what I could learn about Adobe AIR, since I didn’t do much with AIR after the rename from Apollo. Also the impressive list of speakers caught my interest. The event was organized very smoothly and the [...]



Last week I requested a free student license for Flex Builder 3 from Adobe, and this week I found it in my mailbox. After downloading the Flex Builder 3 trail version from the Adobe website and applying my license key to it, it said I now have the Education version. But the strange thing is [...]