Adobe Flash Media Server is software that focuses on being a streaming server and data to the Flash Platform helps by providing a better and richer experience for the user. Adobe today announced a new family Flash Media Server 4, with innovations such as Dynamic IP multicast, HTTP Streaming and of course, RTMFP(Real Time Media Flow Protocol)

Adobe Flash Media Server 4 Family

• Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 4 – For streaming live or on demand, with the possibility of using encrypted content with RTMP (RTMPE) and check SWF.
• Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 4 – Same features as the FMSS with adding new features as IP multicast and HTTP Dynamic Streaming
• Adobe Flash Media Enterprise Server 4 – to provide content on a large scale with little network usage and maximum performance.

Adobe Flash Media Development Server software contains all the features in Adobe Flash Media Enterprise Server 4 software, but with a limit of 10 simultaneous RTMP connections and 50 simultaneous RTMFP connections, and time limits for IP multicast and live HTTP Dynamic Streaming.

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/09/adobe-debuts-new-technologies-and-improved-video-workflows-at-ibc-flash-media-server-4-announced.html

nsurprisingly the growing use of mobile devices like smartphones, tablets, etc. With the great increase in access to 3G data network, we have a new class of users that need special attention. Did your site is compatible with mobile devices? if not, it should be because the mobile user can be just who will purchase your product or service.

Did your site is compatible with mobile devices? if not, it should be because the mobile user can be just who will purchase your product or service.

The major banks have already realized this and most already have a version of its Internet banking to mobile devices, including to perform operations that you normally do on the site to pay bills, view balances etc..
Adobe Device Central software is a part of Adobe Creative Suite family that aims to emulate the operation of mobile devices on your desktop. It is mainly used to test the functionality of Flash Lite on smartphones. But it can also be used to test your html pages and simulate the operation of any mobile device.

To open a page or site in Adobe Device Central CS5, just follow these steps:

• After opening the program, go to “Device Profiles” and click “Browse Devices”. A list of profiles of models of smartphones, select a few for your tests (right-click and ask for the “Add to Test Devices”)
• Should see the selected device and its technical specification. Now just go to “File-> Open File …” to open a file or “File-> Open URL …” to open a site directly. In my case, ask to open the url of my blog on Nokia 5230:
  

  Adobe Device Central CS5

You also have the option to call the Adobe Device Central Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 directly by, just ask “File-> Preview in Browser-> Device Central”.
On my blog, I use the plugin WordPress Mobile Edition which formats the blog to be accessed on mobile devices.

Adobe Device Central is included in the following Creative Suite 5 products:

• Adobe Creative Suite® 5 Design Premium
• Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Standard
• Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium
• Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium
• Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection
• Adobe Photoshop® CS5 Extended
• Adobe Photoshop CS5
• Adobe Illustrator® CS5
• Adobe Flash® Professional CS5
• Adobe Dreamweaver® CS5
• Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5
• Adobe After Effects® CS5
• Adobe Fireworks® CS5

More:
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/devicecentral/?promoid=ZALP

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Adobe Flash Builder 4 is a development IDE for building RIA applications based on Flash Platform, it is an Eclipse-based IDE, already contains the Framework Adobe Flex 4, has advanced features to increase productivity in the development of RIA applications. What few people know is that Adobe offers free Standard version of Flash Builder for students, teachers, unemployed, and if you want to use to disseminate technology.

What few people know is that Adobe offers free Standard version of Flash Builder for students, teachers, unemployed, and if you want to use to disseminate technology.

To purchase your copy, simply fill out the form at the following address:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/free/index.html
If you wanted other tools like ColdFusion Builder, follow the link:
https://freeriatools.adobe.com/

Adobe Flash Builder 4 Features

• Data-centric development with Introspect Java, PHP, Adobe ColdFusion, REST, and SOAP services to display methods and properties in the new Data/Service Explorer.
• Integration with Adobe Flash Catalyst.
• Network Monitor (Premium edition only).
• Command line build (Premium edition only).
• Flex unit testing integration (Premium edition only).
• Automatic generation of common code.
• Code refactoring.
• Rich visual layout.
• Debugger improvements.
• Custom templates in new MXML, ActionScript, and CSS files.
• Flex Theme Browser.
• ASDoc support.
• Adobe Flash Professional workflow
• Skinning and styling enhanced
• Part of Creative Suite 5 Web Premium.

In Physics, kinematics is the branch responsible for studying the motion of bodies. Inverse Kinematics (IK) is a technique widely used in engineering, robotics and animation. It consists of the movement of an object or a set of objects in relation to other objects, using an articulated structure of bones. The bones allow the handling of complex and natural way possible to create character animation, such as arms, legs and facial expressions much more easily, the simplest image illustrates this is the movement of a lever. Anyone who has worked with 3D modeling software such as 3D Studio MAX already familiar with this technique. From Adobe Flash CS4, we have the opportunity to work with inverse kinematics in Flash IDE itself and a library in ActionScript 3.0.

Inverse kinematics (IK) is a method of animation that consists of movement of an object or a set of objects in relation to other objects, using an articulated structure of bones. The bones allow the handling of complex and natural way possible to create character animation, such as arms, legs and facial expressions much more easily, the simplest image illustrates this is the movement of a lever.

Now let's see an example using Adobe Flash Professional CS5 will be pretty simple to understand the workings of this tool.

• Create a new file type ActionScript 3.0
• Create three graphic symbols in a rectangular shape so that the effect is better visualized. Let them side by side forming a row.
• Select Bone tool
• Click the first symbol of pure and drag until the end of it. Will be formed with a bone on its own biggest one being the base.
• Do the same with the second symbol in order to start dragging from its own smaller bone of the first symbol.
• Your stage should look like this:
  

  IK Adobe Flash

• Note that a new layer was created with the name of armature. Select frame 20 for example, right-click on the frame and select "Insert pose". This done, move in any way the symbols on the stage. Do the same for frame 40 and 60.
• Now test the movie "Ctrl+Enter".

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More:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flash/cs/using/WS2756549E-1394-424a-B00E-357A1EAED5D8.html

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Adobe Flash has revolutionized the distribution of video content on the web, we have the Adobe Flash Media Server that helped with this by giving the possibility to distribute content via streaming, including the option to use encryption and features DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Adobe Flash has revolutionized the distribution of video content on the web, we have the Adobe Flash Media Server that helped with this by giving the possibility to distribute content via streaming, including the option to use encryption and features DRM (Digital Rights Management).

O Adobe Flash Media Server 3.5 and Flash Player 10 brings some novelties, among them the possibility to use the Dynamic streaming for content distribution.
Imagine the following scenario, you use a 3G internet limited(my case ), glad you're watching a video and notes of nothing, the video begins to catch, and you've used all your available bandwidth and now can only use the minimum that the carrier provides. Another scenario is that the same video can be viewed both via the desktop or any mobile device such as smartphones, which have limited memory, processing power and smaller screen. Flash Media Server can depending on network conditions and client resources, exchange content (audio, video or both) with one that better fits the current conditions of the customer, thus guaranteeing the QoS (Quality of Service).

Flash Media Server can depending on network conditions and client resources, exchange content (audio, video or both) with one that better fits the current conditions of the customer, thus guaranteeing the QoS (Quality of Service).

Dynamic Streaming helps ensure the QoS(Quality of Service)

• Video with long duration.
• HD video.
• Video with larger dimensions, such as full screen video.
• Content distributed to users who are more susceptible to bandwidth issues, such as home users, rather than corporate users

QoS - Quality of Service - refers to resource reservation control mechanisms rather than the achieved service quality. Source: Wikipedia.

See in detail the use of dynamic streaming in Adobe's documentation.
See also these two articles devnet with fonts available for download:

• Live dynamic streaming with Flash Media Server 3.5
• Dynamic streaming in Flash Media Server 3.5 – Part 1: Overview of the new capabilities

Recommended books:
Hands-On Guide to Flash Video: Web Video and Flash Media Server (Hands-On Guide Series)
Flash Video for Professionals: Expert Techniques for Integrating Video on the Web
Introduction to Flash Media Server 2

The mobile market is one of the fastest growing lately, and with it the demand for applications for this growing niche also bringing one more option for anyone who is a developer and new business opportunities. You developer who likes to keep up, you know exactly what I'm talking about. In this article I gathered some links that those who want to start with mobile development in at least three different platform in which I had lately demands.

The mobile market is one of the fastest growing lately, and with it the demand for applications for this growing niche also bringing one more option for anyone who is a developer and new business opportunities

Among the platforms available for mobile development, we can highlight:

• Java with JME
• Nokia Qt, besides being able to use WRT(Web RunTime)
• Flash Lite
• Android SDK from Google with the addition of Adobe AIR and Flash Player 10.1
• IPhone

'll Comment a little bit of each:

Java with JME
JME (Java Micro Edition) is the version that Sun offers for you to program in Java for mobile devices. It offers an enormous range of API's that were made specifically. Has a very complete documentation and several examples. I leave a link how to set up your environment for development JME.

Nokia Qt
Nokia offers Qt, Cross-plaftorm application and UI framework, with specific libraries for mobile devices (such as QTMobility). You program in C++ and there is an interface language like MXML. Has its own IDE and has emulators for Symbian S60, 40 and Symbian^3 beyond Maemo and Meego.

Adobe Flash Lite
Adobe Flash Lite still has space on the market, with a different version of the Flash player with some features specific to mobile devices. The development environment is to own Adobe Flash Professional and Adobe Device Central.

Google Android
Google offers for the Android platform a set of SDK's and emulators for the different versions of its operating system with each passing day it becomes more popular. It has a plugin for you to program in Eclipse, the Android Development Tools(ADT). The language used is Java. From Android 2.2 (Froyo) you have the option to create applications in Adobe AIR, the AIR runtime is installed on the device and you create the application using Adobe Flash Professional (which has an extension to create the files .apk) or Adobe Flash Builder.

Apple IPhone
Who wants to program for iPhone, ipad and the like, Apple provides an SDK. You use the Objective-C language, derived from C, and some interesting libraries developed for working with muiltitouch like Cocoa. We'll find a list of frameworks.

Well, we have options, it behooves us to analyze only that can best serve our customers. Should stay something about Windows Phone 7 because it seems to me very promising and deserves attention too.

Recommended Books:
JME
Beginning Java™ ME Platform (Beginning from Novice to Professional)
J2ME: The Complete Reference
Enterprise J2ME: Developing Mobile Java Applications
J2ME Game Programming (Game Development)

Nokia Qt, C++, Symbian, Meego
Qt for Symbian
S60 (Software Platform): Qt, Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic, S60, Nokia Pc Suite, Python for S60, the Core Pocket Media Player, Nokia E75
Beginning Nokia Apps Development: Using MeeGo, Mobile QT and OpenSymbian
Porting to the Symbian Platform: Open Mobile Development in C/C++ (Symbian Press)

Adobe Flash Lite
AdvancED Flash on Devices: Mobile Development with Flash Lite and Flash 10
Professional Flash Lite Mobile Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
Foundation Flash Applications for Mobile Devices

Android
Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform (Pragmatic Programmers)
Android Application Development: Programming with the Google SDK
Professional Android 2 Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

IPhone
Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK
iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides)
The iPhone Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone 3.0 SDK (2nd Edition)

Windows Phone 7
Learning Windows Phone Programming
Windows Mobile Game Development: Building games for the Windows Phone and other mobile devices (Expert's Voice in .NET)
Programming Windows Phone 7

One of the questions you do lately is the possible death of Flash Lite. We have the Flash Player 10.1 optimized for mobile and Adobe AIR 2.5 for Android, and with that Flash Lite would be in their final days.
I've read articles that argued that Adobe did not know that capitalize on the success that Macromedia has with Flash Lite in Japan and began to give priority for mobile systems only now. This can be a little truth, but Adobe does not mess around, now this with full force for a variety of devices, not only mobile.
Now our question which gave title to the article, along with Flash Player 10.1, Adobe released Flash Lite 4.0 also, being a version of Flash Player for devices with limited processing resources and memory but with support for ActionScript 3.0. See the list of features available here.
For one thing, each day brings more smartphones come with Android 2.2 (Froyo), which officially supports the Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.5. Also, we're seeing with Android smartphones (earlier) being updated with Froyo. That is, based on Flash contents tends to grow with these major smartphones. On the other hand so far, have only a smartphone officially announced with Flash Lite 4.0, the Nokia N8 and possibly Nokia C7, the question remains, still worthwhile to develop content for Flash Lite?
And my answer is YES, even for Flash Lite 3.0 or 3.1(ActionScript 2.0) especially for Nokia devices and why I say this. Let's see some facts:

• Nokia is still world leader on mobile devices and how it has always been an innovator(was the first to put an internal antenna), not let that lead get away so easy
• The operating system Symbian is still the most used for mobile systems, and Nokia betting on Symbian will continue with the Meego(Linux-based)
• We have an extensive list of phones Nokia that has Flash Lite 2.0 or 3.0 , about 400 million around the world, many now arriving in Brazil
• Sony and Samsung also has a good range of handsets with Flash Lite
• Is starting to grow the number of applications in Portuguese on OVI Store, highlight for MTV Ao Vivo, the Terra TV and VEJA São Paulo
• Nokia has created a library especially to increase the capabilities of Flash Lite
• Adobe Device Central CS5 offers a fairly complete for you to test your application in various mobile devices
• Nokia and Adobe were the first to contribute to the project Open Screen Project - one content, several devices

So in conclusion, is a market for development and yet it is worth studying (and remember) Actionscript 2.0. I believe that we will have two or three years of life for Flash Lite.

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This business model has become a fad in the world, you provide your application through a large company, we have examples such as Apple's App Store, Nokia with Ovi Store, Google Android Market. The advantages are many and generate greater confidence for the user and off course that Adobe could not be left out.
Previously called Shibuya, now Adobe Melrose seeks to offer basically three types of services for those who develop applications on Adobe AIR:

• Try and Buy - When you are developing your AIR application, you simply embed the licensing SWC in your application, enter a few lines of code and specify the price and trial periods online.
• Monetize -When end user customers purchase your application, the Melrose service keeps track of the income from each of your applications. You get paid at a regular interval, typically once a month.
• View analytics - Reports are available online via the Adobe Developer Connection site. In this initial release you'll be able to view reporting information regarding revenue, active trials, expired trials and downloads. This information is available for everywhere you use Melrose-not just for downloads from the Adobe AIR Marketplace.

More:
Melrose Labs
Documentation

Available today is the certification exam of Adobe Flex 4 (Flex 4 # ACE Exam 9A0-129) since July 16, Now you have 59 questions related to Creating a User Interface (UI), Flex system architecture and design, Programming Flex applications with ActionScript, Interacting with data sources and servers and Using Flex in the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
You need at least 67% to pass.
The proof is performed in authorized centers online by Adobe and you mark the exam through sites Prometric or Pearson VUE
More details:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/ace/main.html
http://partners.adobe.com/public/en/ace/ACE_Exam_Guide_Flex4.pdf
http://www.pearsonvue.com/adobe
http://www.prometric.com

This post was originally written several years ago, it was only as a draft and strangely remains current.

Sometimes I see on the Internet some movement "anti-Flash", something really strange, it seems religion. There is a culture of saying that Flash is a program "to make a ball go" or that "Flash has accessibility zero, this is very far from the truth. it is possible to make extremely complex applications with Flash. And when there is a kind of "dispute" between AJAX X FLASH Flash x Silverlight Flash x HTML5. From time to time there is a new "Flash-killer", I think they are different technologies and complement. I see the same kind of radicalism in relation to PHP X Cold Fusion, ASP X PHP, PHP X PHYTON, Open Source X Proprietary etc.
I have also been very radical, defending PHP tooth and nail, spoke ill of any other language that was not PHP without even know it, but I realized that those who still think that way, limits their opportunities to major world today no matter what tool you use but how you use the tool, who heard "The bad employee blames his tools work"?.
Always worked with Flash and PHP, when I entered the BANCOOB, I felt compelled to learn Java, was a challenge that could overcome. Shortly after I entered the migration project, which would have to program in C # and Visual Basic, many of my friends simply do not accept into the project. I heard things like, "look at my curriculum and see if it is VB" and called the loose, but the end result was a great experience for me, I was able to grow much.
I have already been many philosophical discussions, and today I have no more patience for it when I see that this conversation tends to radicalism or religion, I lose the will to fully discuss.
Working with Flash since version 5, I followed closely the development of the tool, and the long ceased to be just a "plugin" to become a development platform for several devices. Of course with that, disrespect the competition, which is great. After all we must always move.

Developers who do not work with Flash, underestimate the power he has.

I'm not the only one who thinks this story that "one will replace the other" makes no sense, to own Adobe preaches that the two work perfectly together, so that the Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 already has support HTML5.
The launch of the iPad was the trigger for the so-called "anti-Flash". it mounted the perfect setting for a healthy discussion, where we could point out the strengths and weaknesses of a given technology and how it can be improved. But what we have seen is just the opposite, I've seen several articles and comments from people simply saying "I hate Flash", sites with sensational headlines(what they did to the post of Lee was disgusting!!!), Each week a different rumor that people believe without checking the sources and the same conversation 5 years ago.

Meanwhile, the client ta little matter if you use this tool or that, what matters to him is that you do the job.

The bad employee blames his tools work.

Flash Camp Brasil - I've been there!!!

About the sessions
First day
Well, full auditorium, all fully prepared and Demian opened the event with an exciting presentation on EFM and how did your dream to make a Flash Camp in Brazil.

Joshua Hirsch Minister of Technology of the Big Spaceship, commented on how your company works and has demonstrated some very interesting projects in which the developer program so even in the latest stage of the project, first you need to buy a machine to smoke.

The second lecture was the Daniel Morena Creative Director of the Agency 32 Bits, about 1.0 Enhanced Reality, that really surprised me, systems showed he made a few years with the Flash Platform using multitouch when not imagined that. I could personally give my congratulations to Daniel Morena.

Second day
O segundo dia se iniciou com a palestra do Sam Rivello, CEO of RMC, biology compared with programming, demonstrated in a simple and objective simulation of biological behavior in programming in Flex 4.

The second lecture was that of Igor Costa, and relaxed and animated, it showed 40 differences considered significant change between Flex 3 and Flex 4.

Tiago Venegas began his lecture by explaining what's new in Flash Media Server 3.5, demonstrated vorttice, a tool conference that owes nothing to the Adobe Connect, also shown as is done dynamic stream.

Next, Lee explained some news about Flash Player 10.1 and created an example using the Adobe Flash CS5 exporting directly to a native application for IPhone.

The presentation of Cássio Souza began with a story about how the way you work in, then explained design pattern State Machine. You may have used State Machine and did not know.

Daniel Dura told the story of the multitouch and demonstrated how it can be worked in Flash Platform.

The talk of closure of the event was dedicated to the Beck Novaes about OutBox, and in my opinion, was closed on a high note, was simply fantastic, I think one of the best speeches of the event.

This was a summary on how fast it was my adventure in Flash Camp Brasil and the ultimate feeling is that it was very worthwhile, Maceió was perfect for the event and a cry marked the Flash Camp Brasil: "sa porra!!!".

See more pictures:
http://www.garagem.com.br/novo_garagem/eventos/flashweb/1024/index.php?cd_evento=1227

Finally I did my certification exam Adobe Flex 3, it passed with 80%, even with little time for studying the part of Adobe AIR (especially the database). Are 50 questions in total and a minimum of 67% to pass.

And to help in the studies, following a software done in Adobe AIR with some simulated:
http://www.pxldesigns.com/attest

I work with Flash since 2002, when it was Macromedia Flash 5, today i am very impressed with the power of Flash CS4. Read this article about news feature of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional.

Introducing Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

Blogs of the Adobe Consulting Team.

http://www.richinternetapps.com/archives/000154.html

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/fitc2006_interview.html