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Archive for December, 2005
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The Socialization of the Web
Posted on December 21, 2005 | 1 CommentEvery 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... -
Improved doLater method
Posted on December 20, 2005 | 2 CommentsIgor 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... -
Flash 8 – setTimeout and XML.idMap
Posted on December 19, 2005 | 6 CommentsThese 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... -
Belgium zipcode components available
Posted on December 15, 2005 | 2 CommentsOver 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... -
Foundation XML for Flash
Posted on December 13, 2005 | 1 CommentXML 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... -
Adobe’s Macromedia acquisition – week 1
Posted on December 11, 2005 | 2 CommentsI 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... -
Speaking at webDU 2006
Posted on December 8, 2005 | 2 CommentsI’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... -
Its official … welcome to my life Adobe!
Posted on December 5, 2005 | 5 CommentsWe 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...