Its incredible what the Papervision3D guys have been doing — pushing ActionScript to the limits in creating a powerful 3D engine for Flash that we could only have dreamed of. Another example of how the community drives the evolution of the Flash platform. Although their API was easy enough for any developer to get started read more
This years edition of the Adobe MAX conference promises to be the best one yet — lots of great products currently in beta on labs that we’ll no doubt be hearing more about and a renewed focus on the community and inspirational sessions. We all know there has been some criticism in the past as read more
We’ve got a great meeting coming up on July 5th at our local Adobe User Group here in Belgium. If you’re into pushing ActionScript to the limits this is one event you won’t want to miss! We will have none other than Ralph Hauwert come over to talk about Papervision3D, followed by Koen de Weggheleire read more
Its been a couple of years since I last spoke at a Flashforward event but am really looking forward to present at the next edition in Boston, MA — September 19th through the 21st. I’ll be doing a session entitled “OOP for the Noob“, basically a non-threatening introduction to the world of object-oriented code in read more
There’s nothing quite like writing a book — definitely one of the most exhilarating yet at times frustrating things you can do. Sas Jacobs, Todd Yard and myself have been hard at work getting the update to Object-Oriented ActionScript for Flash 8 written and we’re now coming ever closer to a release date. The previous read more
Over at the Adobe Community Summit with fellow community experts and user group managers, today is Adobe Integrated Runtime training day — join in the fun and play around with the goodies released on labs last night. Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) previously known as Apollo http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/ Adobe Flex Builder 3 beta http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/ Flash Player 9 read more
With a public beta of Flex 3 reportedly hitting Adobe Labs in a matter of days, Ted Patrick has been giving out sneak peeks all weeks as to what to expect. Its all exciting stuff, CS3 integration, great new workflow for skinning components, refactoring, a full-fledged profiler, advanced DataGrid component etc. Yesterday however something was read more
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