Renaun Erickson http://renaun.com/blog Informtation on Flex, Flash, ColdFusion, and general RIA web develoment. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:37:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 OptimizeIt Presentation at 360Flex http://renaun.com/blog/2010/03/10/304/ http://renaun.com/blog/2010/03/10/304/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:35:00 +0000 Renaun Erickson http://renaun.com/blog/?p=304 My slides but not the code made it up on the 360Flex usb drive, I didn’t figure that out until today when I was giving my talk. So my talk at 360Flex in San Jose was called: OptimizeIt - Actionscript tips for iPhone games.

It really is a bunch of Actionscript optimizations and some of the limitations of the Packager of iPhone. I cover both test case data across a iPhone 3GS, iPhone Touch 2nd generation, and a iPhone Touch 1st generation, as well as demos and code. You can get my slides and code below.

Code and Slides

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]]> http://renaun.com/blog/2010/03/10/304/feed/ Joining the Adobe Platform Evangelist Team http://renaun.com/blog/2010/03/02/296/ http://renaun.com/blog/2010/03/02/296/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:50:30 +0000 Renaun Erickson http://renaun.com/blog/?p=296 I am joining the Adobe Platform Evangelist team. I’ll be part of the North American team, Kevin Hoyt, Ryan Stewart, Lee Brimelow, and Terry Ryan.

There is a lot I’ll have to figure out with my new role. I’ll be focusing on Flex related stuff and look forward to getting back into the community full swing. I have to thank Danielle Deibler and my old team for a great 3 years working on some fun projects inside Adobe. I wish the best for them in the new Flash Platform Services group and am excited to be able help services and the whole platform grow in my new role anyway I can.

It happens that I already had two speaking engagements planned for next week in the bay area. A great way to kick off my new role. I will be speaking with Danielle at the Flash Game Summit on March 8th (Yeah I have to miss out on day 1 of 360Flex). Then I’ll be at 360 Flex, my favorite conferences ever, speaking on ActionScript optimizations for iPhone games. Looking forward to catching up with old friends and meeting a bunch of new ones.

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]]> http://renaun.com/blog/2010/03/02/296/feed/ AIR 2.0 on labs.adobe.com http://renaun.com/blog/2009/11/16/294/ http://renaun.com/blog/2009/11/16/294/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:32:34 +0000 Renaun Erickson http://renaun.com/blog/?p=294 AIR 2.0 has been released to labs.adobe.com. Along with the release are a set of sample applications. You can find the Microphone sample application that I had the opportunity to create here:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air2/samples/

Its been cool to work on the local Microphone access feature for AIR 2.0/Flash Player 10.1 this year. Now its time to see all the cool stuff people can build on top of the latest features.

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]]> http://renaun.com/blog/2009/11/16/294/feed/ Flash Player Microphone Access http://renaun.com/blog/2009/10/05/291/ http://renaun.com/blog/2009/10/05/291/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:17:19 +0000 Renaun Erickson http://renaun.com/blog/?p=291 Check out the new Flash Player 10.1 features and enhancements.

I am particularly excited about this last feature:

Microphone Access

(desktop only)
Access binary data of the live and continuous waveform coming from the microphone to create new types of audio applications, such as audio recording for transcoding, karaoke, vocoder voice manipulation, sonographic analysis, pitch detection, and more.

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]]> http://renaun.com/blog/2009/10/05/291/feed/ New = StructuredLogTestingSDK.swc, Old = RIALogger.swc http://renaun.com/blog/2009/05/20/289/ http://renaun.com/blog/2009/05/20/289/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 18:07:30 +0000 Renaun Erickson http://renaun.com/blog/?p=289 Its come to my attention that there has been some confusion around getting the Structured Log Testing SDK up and running. The confusion has to do with the old code I used that was located along side the RIALoggerApp (an AIR application for viewing logs/structured logs). I have gone ahead an removed all the old RIALogger.swc code that was using the older RIAlogger class for logging. The new class to use is the SLog class and can be found in the StructuredLogTestingSDK.swc over on the http://structuredlogs.com site.

So in with the NEW (StructuredLogTestSDK.swc) and out with the OLD (RIALogger.swc).

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]]> http://renaun.com/blog/2009/05/20/289/feed/ Thoughts I missed in my Session http://renaun.com/blog/2009/05/19/282/ http://renaun.com/blog/2009/05/19/282/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 13:57:10 +0000 Renaun Erickson http://renaun.com/blog/?p=282 If you didn’t catch all the good testing discussion’s we have had on the first day of 360Flex you’ll want to lookup whats going on with FlexUnit4 and Structured Log Testings.

Since yesterday and after my session there where some things that I didn’t touch on as much as I wanted to. First, Structured Log Testings was released in the wild yesterday. Structured Log Testings is meant to be a community project and any one wanting to get involved please let me know. Since the structured log format is really just JSON’d data with specific properties that need to be define this approach is not tied to a specific language. This also means its not just tied to client side but could be on the server side. For example think of gathering structured logs from your client as well as the server and then having a tool to view the data points in connection with each other. Then the next time someone has a bug they can send your the logs from the client, you find the logs on the server and see what went wrong.

A big part of this technology is the non-tech part, or the approach and mind set part. This is a new way of thinking about testing on a whole. Its meant to be very flexible in all phases of the project (development, deployment, maintenance). I hope to keep information and articles going on this progress and examples over on Structured Log Testings.

On the FlexUnit4 side if you are interested to see that project move forward with integration into next Builder release go vote.

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]]> http://renaun.com/blog/2009/05/19/282/feed/ PHP Script for Stratus Video Phone Sample Application http://renaun.com/blog/2009/04/07/279/ http://renaun.com/blog/2009/04/07/279/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:50:52 +0000 Renaun Erickson http://renaun.com/blog/?p=279 Stratus is an Adobe technology up on labs that allows for Flash Player 10 and AIR 1.5 RTMFP real time communication connections. The most important features of RTMFP include low latency, end-to-end peering capability, security and scalability.

As part of the labs release there are an article and sample application.

Article 1
Stratus Sample Application

The Stratus Sample Application source files come with a cgi script for registering user’s identities (the NetConnection.nearId used for RTMFP net stream connections).

What this post is all about is a port of that cgi script to PHP. I was playing with the Stratus application on my own server and used PHP so I figured I would put the file out for others to use.

The file is renamed to a text file reg.txt but just download it and rename to reg.php to use.

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]]> http://renaun.com/blog/2009/04/07/279/feed/ Optimized Adobe Flash Player 10 for Devices http://renaun.com/blog/2009/04/01/277/ http://renaun.com/blog/2009/04/01/277/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:17:07 +0000 Renaun Erickson http://renaun.com/blog/?p=277 More things are heating up around the Open Screen Project. At CTIA Wireless conference Adobe Systems Incorporated and Texas Instruments Incorporated announced a technology collaboration to optimize Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe AIR® for the TI’s OMAP™ mobile applications platform.

This has always been one of my personal favorite areas Adobe is now more fully engaged in. Getting the Flash platform on devices, not just mobile but other devices, is a great opportunity with the full potential yet to be known. The last time I felt this type of opportunity was when Flex sdk changed their license from a server to be free (Flex 1 -> Flex 2). So far there have been a few announcements since MAX 2008 where they showed off Flash Player 10 on some different devices.

Looking forward to the future…

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]]> http://renaun.com/blog/2009/04/01/277/feed/ backgroundColor with showFlexChrome=”false” http://renaun.com/blog/2009/02/05/268/ http://renaun.com/blog/2009/02/05/268/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:11:59 +0000 Renaun Erickson http://renaun.com/blog/?p=268 I came across a scenario that I wanted an AIR app to have a background color set while systemChrome="true" but showFlexChrome="false". Here is another post describing the problem. I tried to figure out what was going on and how the green-greyish background shows up (or white background in Flex 4) but couldn't figure out where that is created. But I did notice that when showFlexChrome="false" that the backgroundAlpha style was set to 0. So the workaround for the problem is to set the backgroundAlpha back to 1 after the application has created it self (on creationComplete event).

PLAIN TEXT
XML:
  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  2. <mx:WindowedApplication
  3.         xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
  4.         layout="vertical"
  5.         backgroundColor="0x0000FF"
  6.         creationComplete="setBG()"
  7.         showFlexChrome="false"
  8.        >
  9.     <mx:Script>
  10.         <![CDATA[
  11.             private function setBG():void
  12.             {
  13.                 this.setStyle("backgroundAlpha", 1);
  14.             }
  15.         ]]>
  16.     </mx:Script>
  17. </mx:WindowedApplication>

Is there an easy way to do this? So the easier way of setting a background color withe showFlexChrome="false" is to set the background color of the SWF.

Cookbook link for setting SWF background value.

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]]> http://renaun.com/blog/2009/02/05/268/feed/ PS3 2.53 firmware update gives us fullscreen FP9 support http://renaun.com/blog/2008/12/02/266/ http://renaun.com/blog/2008/12/02/266/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:29:55 +0000 Renaun Erickson http://renaun.com/blog/?p=266 So the updated is finally here. The fullscreen on hulu.com is working, but its a little choppy on the FPS. The fullscreen doesn't fill up my 1080p screen like watching fullscreen hulu on my PC. YouTube's fullscreen that was in a page was interesting. It worked but the quality was lacking.

Other cool feature support was my friend says he was watching hulu movies on his PSP with remote play.

Either way this is good progress for the Flash Platform. And remember to go get 2.53 right now....

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