2012 Support For HiDPI And Retina Display
No, I am not a Mac user (shocked, huh?). But lots of you are, and lots of you have been asking about Adobe application support for HiDPI and Retina Display. Over on the Photoshop.com blog the team has announced that this is indeed in the works for Photoshop and Lightroom.
2012 ADC Series Explains Building Native Extension For iOS And Android
ADC has published a very useful series by Digital Primates' Nathan Weber on building native extensions for iOS and Android:
- Part 1: Getting started with volume control
- Part 2: Developing the ActionScript library
- Part 3: Building the iOS library
- Part 4: Building the Android library
- Part 5: Building the ANE file
2012 Coming Soon: NCDevCon
NCDevCon is the largest developer conference in North Carolina, and Adobe has long been a supporter of this annual event. Back for a 4th year, NCDevCon is September 29 - 30, 2012 in Raleigh at Centennial Campus. If you are looking for training on all things web and mobile, check it out.
2012 Holly Schinsky Explains Styling Twitter Bootstrap
Twitter Bootstrap is a free and open source library of controls and widgets for web development. Adobe evangelist Holly Schinsky (aka devgirl) has written an ADC article on Styling your apps with Twitter Bootstrap.
2012 Check Out Brackets Sprint 12
Here are details on Brackets Sprint 12.
2012 ColdFusion Positions In MD And NC
Two this week:
- The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore, MD) is looking for a software engineer with strong ColdFusion experience. Requirements include 5+ years of building complex ColdFusion applications using Mach-II/ColdBox/FW1, and good jQuery and SQL Server skills. Details are online.
- East Carolina University (Greenville, NC) is looking for a ColdFusion developer. Requirements include 3-4 years of ColdFusion experience, as well as experience with Fusebox (or other MVC framework) and jQuery. BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) is preferred. Details posted online (click on Staff positions and scroll down to Business & Tech Applications Analyst – Journey, position number 908971).
2012 Adobe Helps Curiosity Stream Live From Mars
Ah, this one gives you the warm fuzzy feeling all over!
2012 Introducing ContentBox
ContentBox is a professional ColdFusion based open source modular content management engine that allows you to easily build websites, blogs, wikis, complex web applications and even power mobile or cloud applications. Built on top of ColdBox with a secure and flexible modular core, designed to scale, and combined with world-class support, ContentBox will get your projects out the door in no time.
2012 An Overview Of Brackets' Code Architecture
ADC has published a great article by David Deraedt introducing An Overview of Brackets' Code Architecture.
2012 Christophe Coenraets' PhoneGap API Explorer
This one is slick! Christophe Coenraets has created a PhoneGap API Explorer for iPad. This is more than an API reference, it actually lets you tweak values and options and then execute to see the results. If you use PhoneGap, grab this one immediately!