Archive for September, 2003

  • Remote webservices in MX 2004

    Remote webservices in MX 2004

    Geoff from fullasagoog was kind enough to put a crossdomain policy file on his server which allows us to connect to his public webservice using the WebServiceConnector component in Flash MX 2004 Professional. I did a quick example using the UI components and databinding, it’s...

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  • Publishing an FLA through JSFL

    Publishing an FLA through JSFL

    After reading Mike Chambers’ post on executing JSFL files from the command line I decided to do some experiments. Building on that concept I came up with a little script that opens up an FLA, adds some ActionScript and exports it. You can download the...

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  • Flashtival 2003 – Amsterdam

    Flashtival 2003 – Amsterdam

    Flashtival 2003 is rapidly approaching! This third edition of the largest Dutch-speaking Flash conference will prove to be a real winner with a keynote by Waldo Smeets and no less than 15 sessions mainly focussing on the new Flash release divided into three tracks. I’ll...

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  • JSFL to the rescue!

    JSFL to the rescue!

    You’ve probably all read about the great new extensibility features in Flash MX 2004. We’ve got Timeline effects, Tools, Behaviours but my personal favourite is – believe it or not – Commands. Commands are basically little (or not so little) scripts written in JSFL that...

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  • Flash MX Components Most Wanted

    Flash MX Components Most Wanted

    If you’re interested in Flash MX Components and want to support my site feel free to follow to link and buy yourself a copy of “Flash MX Components Most Wanted“. I was lucky enough to co-author this book with a lot of very talented Flash...

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  • SHA1 class for PHP4

    SHA1 class for PHP4

    I’ve written this SHA1 class in PHP quite a while ago but thought I might just put it up in case anyone’s still interested in using it. The code was ported from Branden Hall’s SHA1 Secure Hash for Flash MX which in turn was based...

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  • Team Macromedia volunteer for Flash

    Team Macromedia volunteer for Flash

    It’s been a few months now since I became a Team Macromedia volunteer for Flash. I just noticed my name got published on the site so I guess it’s about time to make a public announcement :) Thanks to Billy Ray and Amy Brooks for...

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  • MMUG London – MX 2004 relaunch event

    MMUG London – MX 2004 relaunch event

    I’ll be flying over to London on Friday where I’ll be speaking at the MMUG relaunch event. It promises to be an incredible occasion, with no less than 6 speakers lined up including Peter Hall, Aral Balkan, Owen van Dijk, … this definately won’t be...

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  • My first post

    My first post

    This is it, I’ve finally set up my very own blog! Over the next few days and weeks you can expect quite a bit of posts on the new Flash MX 2004 features so stay tuned for that.

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