Randy Troppmann

I would love to participate in this contest but Canadians are not eligible so your chances are that much better to win! Here is a message from Adobe:

Join Adobe and Sony for a webinar to learn about the exciting opportunities to bring innovative apps to Sony Tablet devices, including the just announced Adobe® AIR®App Challenge, Sponsored by Sony www.airappchallenge.com. Adobe and Sony are challenging developers, agencies, and content creators to build breakthrough apps for the upcoming “Sony Tablet” devices using Adobe AIR 3 and Adobe® Flash® tools for a chance to win $200,000 in total cash prizes, premium promotion on Sony Tablet devices, conference passes and paid travel to Adobe MAX, and more prizes. In the webinar you’ll learn about the unique features of the Sony Tablet S1 and Sony Tablet S2, as well as how you can be one of the first to gain prerelease access to the tablets, the latest version of Adobe AIR runtime and tools and other benefits. Encourage your peers to attend the webinar and enter the Challenge – you or someone you know can be one of the first selected as a Finalist by submitting an app or app project now!

Join us on Wednesday July 20, 2011 at 11:00AM – 12:00PM PDT or 7:00PM – 8:00PM PDT

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=1851799&loc=en_us

I was playing around with the new Flash-based stage video api using Thibault Imbert’s tutorial. I used Flex to build my proof of concept and tried to stream video from our FMS server via RTMP. It all seemed pretty straight forward but for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why I could only hear and not see the video. Of course! Stage video sits behind everything on the display list and all I had to do was set my base application to have an background alpha of 0. I love simple solutions.