Watch this space for live coverage of the Adobe Keynote with Kevin Lynch here at Flashforward2007 Boston kicking off in just under an hour. 08:36:47 GMT-0400 – The room is starting to fill up, O’Reilly is pulling out all the stops — a free copy of Colin Moock’s Essential ActionScript 3.0 on every seat.
With just a couple of hours to go before I leave for Boston and a sold out Flashforward, here’s a first beta release of AIR LiveBlogger for you guys to play with. Install notes 1. Make sure you have the AIR runtime installed 2. Download the AIR LiveBlogger .air file 3. Install and run
For the last few nights I’ve been working on an AIR app that allows you to do live blogging. Its almost ready for a public alpha so thought I’d blog a little preview. First step is to fill in your blog connection details (XML-RPC gateway, username and password).
One thing I hear a lot from people moving into object-oriented code with ActionScript 3.0 is how it is much more structured and readable than doing things on the timeline in the Flash IDE. That doesn’t mean that there are no situations where your code needs to deal with the timeline. I’m personally still a read more
I got an interesting question the other day from someone wondering how you can insert variable values when defining an XML structure in ActionScript 3.0. Its actually an interesting feature I haven’t seen a lot of discussion around. As most of you will probably know, ActionScript 3.0 now treats XML as a native data type read more
The talented guys (and gal) over at Nectarine have started a weekly comic strip which looks absolutely kick-ass, can’t wait for the next one!
Ted Patrick appears to have stumbled across a bit of a sore spot in what Microsoft calls its “Windows Live Streaming Service” — it turns out to be nothing more than progressive download over HTTP. It even “streams” FLV and SWF files as long as you give it a .WMV extension ;) If this is read more
With Flashforward2007 Boston just over a week away I thought I’d post what sessions I’m planning to attend. The speaker lineup is just fantastic, can’t wait for the conference to kick off! My own session will be “OOP for the Noob”, an introduction to object-oriented programming in ActionScript 3.0. I’ve got a great slot assigned, read more
There’s been a lot of debate around web vs desktop as a platform for deploying applications for some years now. With the popularity of web 2.0 initiatives (and social networking sites in particular) some thought the whole momentum was shifting and the very idea of desktop applications was antiquated. Of course that is not the read more
So, what’s happening with our local user group? More than you might have expected! We’ve been very busy behind the scenes preparing for some upcoming sessions and making sure that we have a kick ass community for our members. First of all of course, if you missed the news — Koen de Weggheleire (of newmovieclip.com read more
Loading ...