Joseph Labrecque

http://twitter.com/JosephLabrecque

Denver, Colorado

Senior Interactive Software Engineer - Adobe Education Leader - Adobe Community Professional

Areas of Expertise:

  • Flash
  • Flex
  • AIR
  • ActionScript
  • Mobile
  • Edge
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing
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), Adobe Edge Quickstart Guide, Packt Publishing (2012), Learning Adobe Edge, Packt Publishing (2012), and serves as author on a number of video training publications through Video2Brain, Adobe Press, and Peachpit Press. 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.

What's New in Flash Player 11 What's New in Flash Player 11
by Joseph Labrecque
December 2011
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What's New in Adobe AIR 3 What's New in Adobe AIR 3
by Joseph Labrecque
December 2011
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Joseph blogs at:

PhoneGap: Saving Arrays in Local Storage

May 18 2013

One of a handful of local storage options for PhoneGap applications is the localStorage solution which is actually part of the W3C specs. It provides access to a W3C Storage interface since we are just dealing with HTML5 in PhoneGap. This is a good option for storing simple strings but… read more

Adobe Flash Professional with CreateJS

May 16 2013

I recently gave a talk on Flash Professional CC and CreateJS for Adobe and WebProfessionals.org. Slides and recording are up! Recording Link: http://seminars.adobeconnect.com/p1kqnaqlwzx/ Also: What?!? Flash Professional CC will target the Dart language from Google??? Crazy talk!Related Posts:Adobe and the Flash Gaming LandscapeAdobe Education Exchange LiveWhat’s New in Flash Player… read more

Adobe MAX 2013: Miscellaneous Schizophrenia

May 13 2013

I’m back from an interesting five days of Adobe MAX in Los Angeles and have a few thoughts I’d like to share. A quick reminder: this is the first MAX since the disastrous events of November 9th, 2011 occurred. It was definitely a different experience this year… but many elements… read more

Edge Code, PhoneGap Build, and lots of Absinthe!

May 13 2013

Presented at the Adobe MAX Community Pavilion in Los Angeles, CA on May 8th, 2013. We’ll be having at look at the Absinthe Dilution Faerie mobile app and how it was created with Adobe Creative Cloud tooling and services. You might even learn a thing of two about Absinthe… Slides:… read more

Using Edge Animate to Create a Reusable Component Set

May 13 2013

Presented at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, CA on May 6th, 2013. This session will examine the Adobe Edge Animate Symbol structure and demonstrate a number of ways to achieve functional results similar to ActionScript using jQuery and JavaScript APIs. Learn these valuable techniques from Joseph Labrecque, senior interactive software… read more

Adobe MAX: Community Central Show and Tell Theater

May 05 2013

There arn’t the normal set of unconferences this year as normally found at MAX; FITC, 360, and others are pretty well absent from the community pavilion this time around. The good news is that thee is a new community based effort this year: the Show and Tell Theater! Here, people… read more

Getting Started with ActionScript – Lynda.com

April 30 2013

Very pleased to announce that I’ve started a new publishing relationship with Lynda.com and the first course in their library is “Getting Started with ActionScript”! How did this come about? After my former publisher, video2brain was acquired – a number of us authors were asked whether we’d like to join… read more

Speaking at 360|Stack!

April 25 2013

Building GPU-Accelerated Mobile Application Interfaces with Starling and Feathers Apache Flex is great for application UI… but it isn’t GPU-accelerated :( New versions of Adobe AIR perform quite spectacularly on mobile and really blaze when tapping into the device GPU. If your mobile application requires this sort of performance –… read more

Review: PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot

April 24 2013

I’ve been working a lot with PhoneGap lately for both personal projects and teaching. Because of this, I’ve taken some time to check out some of the newer books on the subject. The last book I’ve had a chance to look over is the PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot… read more

Absinthe Dilution Faerie 2.0

April 23 2013

Absinthe Dilution Faerie version 2.0 is now available for free via Google Play! “Absinthe Dilution Faerie” is a small application which calculates how much water one should temper a dose of absinthe with in accordance with the ABV percentage as laid out by Michael Meyers of The Wormwood Society. So… read more

PhoneGap and HTML5SQL.JS

April 22 2013

I’ve been doing a lot of digging around in PhoneGap lately. This dovetails nicely with my Edge Animate and Edge Reflow work – but I also see it as an extension of my work with Adobe AIR and Flash Player on mobile. One of the interesting things about working in… read more

PhoneGap Starter (for PhoneGap Build)

April 10 2013

Most PhoneGap “Hello World” examples make you go through the task of configuring PhoneGap on your system and making sure your system PATH is set with Android Virtual Device support and a bunch of command line interfacing… and it is CONFUSING for newcomers! What if you just want to write… read more
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