This coming Friday (October 21st) OSFlash.org will host its first Open Source Flash conference via Breeze. The speaker lineup looks great and I expect we’ll be seeing quite a few sneak peeks ;) 17:55 Introduction by Nicolas Cannasse 18:00 Keynote : The OSFlash Revolution by Aral Balkan 18:30 Session : RED5 Prototype Unveiled by John read more
I had an interesting comment on one of my blog posts asking about creating your own custom effects in MXML. I knew it was possible but wasn’t really up to speed on the best way to do it. Well, after a bit of research here is an example — its a very basic rotation effect read more
What a way to start the week! The aggregators are flooded with all the exciting news, but I’ll just add a quick overview here: Macromedia Labs goes live — a place where developers can get hold of alpha builds of software and see what technologies the engineering team is playing around with. It also has read more
I had an interesting discussion a few days back about Flex compared to the Flash IDE, to many people it appears as though Flash applications built with MXML are by definition very static and lacking real creativity. Don’t quite agree with that, it might just be that the typical use case for Flex is Flash read more
A few days back Mike Chambers posted an interesting code sample (made by Christian Cantrell) for Flex 2 to the FlashCoders mailinglist that shows a cool way to skin components in MXML. Notice that it uses CSS and the Embed directive for using images as skins (which compiles the external image into the SWF). This read more
Paul Robertson takes a detailed look at the ECMAScript 4 proposal which should give us some idea of what to expect for ActionScript 3 syntax in Flash Player 8.5. A great read for people that can’t wait for the alpha release of Flash Player 8.5 next week!
Mike Downey announced the code-name for the next release of Flash. With all those announcements you’ve got to wonder if they’ve got anything else up their sleeve to announce at the MAX conference ;) Google defines the term Blaze as: a strong flame that burns brightly; “the blaze spread rapidly” or hell: a cause of read more
It looks as though we’ll soon be saying goodbye to the name Macromedia, after the company spent some 13 years helping to shape the web. Its surprising to me how much you can get attached to a brand, not just the name but everything it symbolizes. The marketing slogan “Experience matters” has become a way read more
If you want to get started with Flex there is no better way than sitting yourself down and start experimenting with this book next to you on the desk. Although there’s not much choice of books on Flex, this one I’ve found is exceptionally well-written and will guide you through all aspects of RIA development read more
Macromedia today announced its future plans for the Flash platform, which includes Flex 2 and Flash Player 8.5. Most noteworthy is no doubt their plans with the Zorn project which will now be named Flex Builder 2 and replace Flex Builder as we know it today. You can apparently use Flex Builder 2 to compile read more
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