Publications

Articles

I wrote this first set of articles out of personal interest; they weren’t part of my “assigned” tasks.

• Pixel Bender basics for Flex and AIR
• Uploading images from CameraRoll and CameraUI
• Communicating between Flash Player and Adobe AIR with sockets
• Creating and validating XML signatures

Tutorials

I wrote these articles as part of the documentation for the AIR SDK.

• Controlling the display order of windows
• Working with the dock and the system tray
• Dragging, copying, and pasting data
• Customizing the look and feel of a window
• Measuring the virtual desktop
• Creating toast-style windows
• Launching windows
• Adding menus to an AIR application
• Creating resizable, non-rectangular windows

ActionScript 3.0 Developer’s Guide

I contributed several topics to this, the primary developer guide for the Flash platform.

• HTML content in Adobe AIR
• Virtual keyboards
• Copy and paste
• Drag and drop in AIR
• Taskbar icons in AIR
• XML signature validation in AIR
• Working with AIR native windows
• Display screens in AIR

ActionScript 3.0 Reference for the Adobe Flash Platform

I am the primary author of the reference material for the classes listed here (I also edited or added material to too many other classes to list).

• flash.display3D package
• flash.desktop package: everything except NativeProcess and Updater classes
• flash.net package: DatagramSocket, NetworkInfo, NetworkInterface, SecureSocket ServerSocket classes
• flash.net.dns package
• flash.security package
• flash.display package: NativeWindow, NativeMenu, Screen classes

Developing Native Extensions for Adobe AIR

I contributed the Java documentation to this guide.

• Coding the native side with Java
• Android Java API reference