The Essential Guide to Flash Cs4 Air Development

ISBN-13: 9781430215882 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 720 str.

Marco Casario

Opis

It's been over a decade since FutureSplash, the predecessor to Macromedia Flash, and then later Adobe Flash, was first released; who could have imagined back then that a simple vector-based animation tool would evolve to become a robust platform for delivering expr- sive content, rich Internet applications, and high-quality video across a multitude of browsers and operating systems. Today, Flash encompasses more than just a browser plug-in and corresponding authoring tool; the Flash platform provides web, desktop, and mobile runtimes, together with fra- works, tools, servers, and services to enable designers and developers to create high-impact experiences. Flash Player remains at the core of the platform, with each release offering new capabilities and further improving performance. Building upon the addition of a new high-performance virtual machine for executing ActionScript code in Flash Player 9, the release of Flash Player 10 adds support for 3D transformations, custom filters and effects, advanced audio proce- ing, and GPU hardware acceleration, enabling an entirely new class of experiences not pre- ously achievable on the Web.

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O autorze

Marco Casario is one of the most dynamic developers and consultants in the Adobe world. He has been passionate about informatics since he was little more than a child, and used to program games in Basic for Commodore 64 before dedicating himself, while still very young, to innovative projects for the web using Flash and Director (as far back as versions 3 and 5). In 2001, he began to collaborate with Macromedia Italia. Since that year, he has produced and headed a long series of presentations, conferences and articles, which you can find listed in detail in his blog, RIAvolutionize the Web (Casario.blogs.com), which is receiving several thousands of unique visitors every day. In 2005, Marco founded Comtaste (Comtaste.com), a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in rich Internet applications and the convergence between the web and the world of mobile devices; MobyMobile (MobyMobile.com) and YouThru (YouThru.com) are representative of their work. Marco is the is founder of the biggest worldwide Flash Lite User Group (groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashLite) and of AugItaly.com, a reference point for the Italian community of Adobe users, for which he carries out the role of channel manager for the section dedicated to Flex (AugItaly.com/FlexGala.) Marco is busy working on the development (in Flex) of a very ambitious project concerning bank counters at European level, and in various consulting and Flex and Flash Media Server training activities for the realisation of rich Internet applications on behalf of buyers of the calibre of Capgemini, IBM partners, and Adobe Systems Software Ireland, Ltd.