Archive for September, 2005

  • Flash 8 credits, what me too?

    Flash 8 credits, what me too?

    Talk about one proud moment, can’t believe I’m actually listed there. I would never have imagined seeing this happen when I first started fiddling around with Flash some years ago (much less being listed between Mike Chambers and Peter Hall, though that is just alphabetical...

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  • Why I love Flash

    Why I love Flash

    http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/video/team/ This about says it all, without a doubt the best Flash release ever … best Flash development team ever. Thanks guys!

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  • Flash 8 Flash Remoting

    Flash 8 Flash Remoting

    I’ve seen quite a few people posting about Flash 8 apparently not supporting Flash Remoting and wanted to blog something about that. As far as I’ve seen the only issue is that the Flash Remoting installer hasn’t been updated to install itself in the Flash...

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  • IFBIN – Great Software By Example

    IFBIN – Great Software By Example

    IFBIN has launched its site today, they provide a service offering high quality Flash and Flex examples to clients that license their content. To achieve this Ted Patrick has teamed up with some top notch developers in the Flash community, be sure to check out...

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  • Spark Europe conference announced

    Spark Europe conference announced

    I’m very excited to see United Digital Artists bringing a top notch Flash conference over to Europe. The first edition of Spark (not to be confused with Sparkle ;)) will take place at the Paradiso in Amsterdam on November 16-18. Ticket prices look very reasonable...

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  • Sparkle from a Flash user’s perspective

    Sparkle from a Flash user’s perspective

    I’ve just finished watching the video up on channel9.msdn.com about Sparkle and must say I’m extremely impressed, but who would’ve expected any less with people like Sam Wan and Manuel Clement on the team! :) Its obvious that these guys have put in a heck...

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  • Flash 8 color picker enhancement

    Flash 8 color picker enhancement

    I don’t usually get very excited about design features in Flash but this really is a great little enhancement. When you use the color picker in Flash 8 you can now set the alpha transparency for that color in the same panel rather than having...

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  • Flash 8 ColorMatrix Preview Panel

    Flash 8 ColorMatrix Preview Panel

    I really like the color matrix filter introduced in Flash 8 and prompted by some other posts earlier today, I thought I’d release my little color matrix preview tool (actually another windowSWF panel) that should help you with creating a color matrix array. Have fun...

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  • Ivan Todorov on naming conventions and SVN

    Ivan Todorov on naming conventions and SVN

    Ivan Todorov of Blitz shared some of their guidelines on project directory structures and naming conventions on his blog. Its always very interesting to see how people organize their projects and they seem to have a very effective system going there. Also worth noting is...

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  • Screenweaver goes open-source

    Screenweaver goes open-source

    I’m really late blogging about this but its just too good not to mention — Screenweaver has gone open source! Originally developed by the Rubberduck team, Edwin van Rijkom took over development of this great tool for creating Flash desktop applications and started working on...

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