Author Archives: Nuno Correia

Rich Internet Applications

Posted on September 2, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) are “Web applications that have the features and functionality of traditional desktop applications. RIAs typically transfer the processing necessary for the user interface to the Web client but keep the bulk of the data (i.e., maintaining … Continue reading →

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Essential ActionScript 3.0 by Colin Moock

Posted on May 20, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Colin Moock has been writing excelent ActionScript books for O’Reilly, and Essential ActionScript 3.0, coming out in June, should also be worth buying: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596526948/ Colin Moock links: http://moock.org/ http://www.moock.org/blog/

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Course ended… thank you

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Thank you to all that participated in the 2nd part of the Multimedia Authoring course. We managed to cover all the topics that were in the course programme. Some more deeply than others. I hope that the blog, and the … Continue reading →

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John Maeda

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Nuno Correia

I’m sure that if you are visiting a blog called “media+code”, you already know the work of John Maeda. Anyway, it might be useful to collect some links to his work in a entry. About John Maeda: John Maeda is … Continue reading →

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Flash Video Encoder

Posted on May 13, 2007 by Nuno Correia

One powerful tool for working with video in Flash is the Flash Video Encoder. Adobe Flash CS3 Video Encoder is a stand-alone video encoding application that lets you encode video in Adobe Flash video (FLV) format. (…) You can batch-process … Continue reading →

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Flash books

Posted on May 13, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Recommended books for Flash and ActionScript: Macromedia Flash 8 ActionScript: Training from the Source by Derek Franklin, Jobe Maker, Erik Bianchi Macromedia Publishing (let’s hope the Adobe CS3 version comes out soon) Flash CS3 Professional Advanced: Visual Quickpro Guide by … Continue reading →

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Flash Security

Posted on May 13, 2007 by Nuno Correia

About the security panel in Flash: Global Security Settings panel Global security settings for content creators

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Marius Watz

Posted on May 13, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Marius Watz has been developing an impressive work, mainly involving generative visuals. He gave a memorable presantation on this year’s edition of PixelAche Festival. From Rhizome.org: Marius Watz works with computational form, writing custom software to create visual systems for … Continue reading →

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Flash and Mobile Devices

Posted on May 13, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Here is a list of links on the Adobe website about Flash and mobile devices: Flash lite product page: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashlite/ Mobile page: http://www.adobe.com/mobile/ Mobile and devices development center: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/ Flash lite development center: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/flashlite.html Flash lite documentation: http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flashlite/

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Flash and RSS

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Nuno Correia

A tutorial for creating a blog reader (from an RSS feed) in Flash (using XML): http://www.thegoldenmean.com/technique/rssReader01.html

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