Every time a year draws to a close you start thinking about what defining events happened and what might be in store for the coming year. For me one of the most intriguing things I noticed is not so much the emergence of web 2.0 technologies but the increasing push towards collaborative and personal environments. read more
Igor from play.ground has just blogged about his improved doLater method for postponing ActionScript calls. Its a very useful function similar to setTimeout in Flash 8, be it frame based rather than using a timed interval. http://play.ground.gr/?p=82 As soon as I have some time to spare I’ll make one that supports both frame and time read more
These are two great new features in Flash 8, but they might cause you to pull your hair out if you try to use them in a class and get nothing but compiler errors. There are a couple of ways around these compiler errors: One way is to use array notation to access them, i.e. read more
Over the last few month I’ve been working on a set of components to help with creating and validating forms in Flash — you’ll hear more about those some time early 2006. Before that component set gets released I thought I’d go public with something that has a rather smaller target audience, a Belgian zipcode read more
XML is one of those technologies you take for granted as a Flash developer and probably use practically every single day without giving it a second thought. That said I was interested to see if “Foundation XML for Flash” would be my cup of tea and go beyond the typical introduction to the XML object read more
I didn’t particularly know what to expect on week one after the Macromedia acquisition, but as far as I’ve seen everything is moving relatively smoothly. Apart from a few minor communication hiccups early in the week and some concerns from the developer community about Adobe’s policy on the availability of SDK’s etc. the general consensus read more
I’ve been invited to speak at the webDU conference in Sydney on March 2-3 2006 where I’ll be doing a session on JSFL entitled “Scripting your tools of the trade” and showing off some of my latest experiments. Really looking forward to the conference and my first trip down under! http://www.webdu.com.au/
We all knew this moment was coming for a while now but still kind of sad to say goodbye to a friend. Thanks Macromedia, its been a swell 5030 days! Guess I’ll now have to get used to calling myself a Team Adobe volunteer for Flash, certified Adobe professional and Adobe usergroup manager. That is, read more
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