EffectiveUI Blog

Ten years after creating Jalaga, a flash card game for studying and learning Japanese kana, I’ve re-purposed the game for the Android platform. See my personal blog post for more on this game, and if you’re so inclined, download the game for your own Android device.

I’ll be returning to 360|Flex, Sept. 19 – 22 in Washington D.C., for my third speaking spot at the conference. In my session, I’ll explore Flex’s drawing API, the base effect/filter classes and Pixel Bender.

Read more at my personal blog.

With jQTouch, a jQuery plugin for developing touch-enabled mobile devices, you can add interactions, layouts and styles to multi-touch-enhanced websites. I provide more information about the plugin on my blog. You also can take a look at what this has in store for you.

EffectiveUI is the proud recipient of nine industry awards – honors we’re excited to share with our many partners.

You can read more about the two American Business Awards (the Stevie Awards) and seven Communicator Awards we won by checking out this release.

Congratulations in particular to our partners at National Geographic, who collaborated with us to create the Stevie Award-winning The Complete National Geographic application (more information on that app appears here). EffectiveUI’s Eric Anderson, who managed our partnership and work with National Geographic, accepted the award at the eighth annual American Business Awards ceremony on June 21 in New York. Watch his short-and-sweet acceptance speech below.

Watch more EffectiveUI videos on our YouTube channel.

Adobe’s added two new releases to its plate today:  the launch of Flex 4.1 SDK and an update to Flash Builder 4.

Among the biggest enhancements this brings to the development world are support for layout mirroring within Flex 4.1 and bug fixes available within both releases.

I provide more information about these releases at InsideRIA.

Prepare for the release of Hero, the next iteration of Adobe’s Flex SDK, scheduled to debut in late 2010. Adobe promises to expand Flex’s capabilities through Hero with full, multi-screen mobile development. This new version also will update and improve Flex’s existing features and the full Spark component set.

Learn more here.

Flex 4’s new Spark LayoutBase class opens up all kinds of possibilities for creating crazy, cool and dynamic layouts for any type of item renderer. Check out Getting Crazy with the Spark Layout Framework!

Want to learn the ins and outs of HTML5? Visit HTML5rocks.com for samples of code, tutorials, presentations and many more resources. You also can follow HTML5rocks on Twitter for the latest news and information.

Recently, when my Flash Player debugger stopped working in Chrome, I turned to the illustrious Kevin Suttle for help. Check out my InsideRIA post to see the wisdom he bestowed in helping me get my favorite browser up and running Flash properly.

This August, Adobe will launch a massive online, interactive experience with the opening of the Adobe Museum of Digital Media (AMDM). The museum will use its virtual space to document and preserve great works of digital art and innovation.

Take a virtual tour of the museum today, and visit the site regularly for updates.