Powering Apple Watch Apps with IBM MobileFirst – Part 1

This is the first entry in a multipart series on powering native iPhone and Apple Watch apps using the IBM MobileFirst Platform.  In this entry we will cover how to setup the MobileFirst Platform for use within Apple WatchKit apps and leverage the operational analytics and remote logging features. So, let’s first take a look […]

Color Key/Green Screen Video Techniques with Creative Cloud

In my last post, I talked about masks in After Effects, specifically the new motion tracking feature for rigid masks. In this post, I’m again focusing on video composition, but instead of compositing using masks, I’m going to talk about keying. Keying is a technique for selectively removing areas of a video based on content […]

Adobe’s MAX Announcements – A Major Update To Creative Cloud

Yesterday kicked off Adobe MAX, Adobe’s annual conference for designers and developers to converge and learn about the latest and greatest from Adobe and our community. In yesterday’s keynote, there were lots of big announcements. If you weren’t able to catch the keynote live, it will soon be available for viewing online. In the meantime, […]

Scrolling Large Blocks of Text with Flex for Mobile

I was recently asked by a friend and former colleague about the best way to get text within a s:Label to behave and scroll properly, especially in the Flex mobile SDK. In particular, having a large block of text wrap correctly and scroll only in the vertical direction. By default if you don’t set a […]

Mobile (3G) vs. WIFI Network Detection with Adobe AIR

Did you know that you can determine whether your mobile device is on wifi or your mobile data connection when using Adobe AIR for mobile? To be honest, I wasn’t aware of it either until yesterday when my friend and former colleague Brian O’Connor pointed me towards a recent tweet from @adobe_cookbook that showed an […]

Joining Adobe!

I’m pleased to announce that as of next week (July 26th) I will be joining Adobe as a Technical Evangelist, with an emphasis on enterprise mobile applications! Many of you know that I’ve been passionate about the Adobe ecosystem for quite a few years… I became really involved late in the Macromedia days, and have […]

Blog Updated!

Well, hello again everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve been active on this blog (tricedesigns.com). This is the first post at this location in nearly 2 years. As I was writing for insideria.com this blog began to suffer. If you’re wondering where the old content has gone, I’ve decided to take it down.  All […]