Labrecque - Adobe Edge Quickstart Guide

Joseph Labrecque is primarily employed by the University of Denver as Senior Interactive Software Engineer specializing in the Adobe Flash Platform, where he produces innovative academic toolsets for both traditional desktop environments and emerging mobile spaces. Alongside this principal role, he often serves as adjunct faculty, communicating upon a variety of Flash Platform solutions and general web design and development subjects.

In addition to his accomplishments in higher education, Joseph is the Proprietor of Fractured Vision Media, LLC a digital media production company, technical consultancy, and distribution vehicle for his creative works. He is founder and sole abiding member of the dark ambient recording project "An Early Morning Letter, Displaced " whose releases have received international award nominations and underground acclaim.

Joseph has contributed to a number of respected community publications as an article writer and video tutorialist and is author of the Flash Development for Android Cookbook, Packt Publishing (2011), What's New in Adobe AIR 3, O'Reilly Media (2011), What's New in Flash Player 11, O'Reilly Media (2011), and co-author of Mobile Development with Flash Professional CS5.5 and Flash Builder 4.5: Learn by Video, Adobe Press (2011).

He regularly speaks at user-group meetings and industry conferences such as Adobe MAX, FITC, D2W, 360|Flex, and a variety of other educational and technical conferences. In 2010, he received an Adobe Impact award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the education community. He has served as an Adobe Education Leader since 2008 and is also an Adobe Community Professional.

Visit him on the web at http://josephlabrecque.com.

Thanks to my family, friends, and benefactors for your continued support.

Christer Kaitila , B.Sc., is a veteran video game developer with 17 years of professional experience. A hardcore gamer, dad, dungeon master, artist, and musician, he never takes himself too seriously and loves what he does for a living: making games!

A child of the arcade scene, he programmed his first video game in the eighties, long before the Internet or hard drives existed. The first programming language he ever learned was 6809 assembly language, followed by BASIC, Turbo Pascal, VB, C++, Lingo, PHP, JavaScript, and finally ActionScript. He grew up as an elite BBS sysop in the MS-DOS era and was an active member of the demoscene in his teens. He put himself through university by providing freelance software programming services for clients. Since then, he has been an active member of the indie game development community and is known by his fellow indies as Breakdance McFunkypants.

Christer frequently joins game jams to keep his skills sharp. Over the years, he has programmed puzzle games, multiplayer RPGs, action titles, shooters, racing games, chat-rooms, persistent online worlds, browser games, and many business applications for clients ranging from 3D displays for industrial devices to simulations made for engineers.

He is the author of the book Adobe Flash 11 Stage3D, Molehill, Game Programming Beginner's Guide , and is about to publish Game Jam Survival Guide .

He runs a popular news website called www.videogamecoder.com, which boasts over 30,000 articles and zero ads. He is one of the Administrators of Ludum Dare. His client work portfolio is available at www.orangeview.net and his personal game development blog is www.mcfunkypants.com, where you can read more about the indie game community and his recent projects.

He lives in Victoria, Canada with his beloved wife and the cutest baby son you've ever seen.

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Preface

Edge is an all-new tool from Adobe (currently in pre-release) that seeks to enable the authoring of motion and interactive experiences through HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in a manner consistent with other Creative Suite applications. The Edge application shares many features with other Adobe products, particularly Flash Professional, After Effects, and InDesign. This book will detail how to use this professional authoring software to create highly engaging content that targets Web standards. Content created in Adobe Edge does not rely on a plugin, so it can be run within any standard browser, even on mobile devices. The goal of this quickstart guide is to provide a direct overview of what it takes to create engaging content for the Web and provide a level of familiarity with Edge in order to actually get it done!