I recently got a question about what the ActionScript 3.0 equivalent is of the LoadVars sendAndLoad method. It may look like a lot more typing (and it is) but the whole implementation is very clean by separating out the request, loader and variables which you can only benefit from in the long run. import flash.events.Event; read more
I’ve been reading through O’Reilly’s “ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Object Oriented Programming Techniques” by William Sanders and Chandima Cumaranatunge for the last few weeks and have to say its an incredibly useful resource. The interesting thing is that this book approaches design patterns in the more traditional sense, not dumbing down on the object-oriented terminology. read more
When opening a simple HTML document in Dreamweaver CS3 (Mac OSX 10.4.10) this afternoon I got this modal dialog pop up. Clicking Cancel or OK didn’t close it, and had to force quit the application. Never seen this happen before, and haven’t been able to reproduce it since. A quick Google search seems to indicate read more
In a bit of a surprise move (at least to me) Bruce Chizen will be stepping down as Adobe’s CEO as from December 1st and Shantanu Narayen, the current COO, will be filling his position. We’ve had the opportunity to talk with Shantanu during the Adobe Community Summit last summer in San Jose in a read more
Richard Galvan, Ted Patrick and Andrew Shorten presented the Adobe keynote on Monday to open Flash on the Beach 07. There wasn’t a lot of new information but I have to say they outdid themselves in creativity to bring the same message across. At the very end there is a little sneak on how read more
“One conference to rule them all” I just got back from Flash on the Beach ’07 in Brighton – the lack of blog posts probably indicates how busy it has been between sessions, meeting up with friends and the various parties. Its hard to pinpoint what exactly makes this conference so special but if I read more
Web 2.0 is a marketing term for slightly less crappy web based forms under the guise of being an application. Web 3.0 brings web 2.0 to the desktop. Web 4.0 brings the desktop to the web GOTO 10
Its no secret that, being in the business of developing software for creative professionals, Adobe has traditionally had a proportionately large chunk of Mac users. With Adobe acquiring Macromedia and going all out to extend its reach to web, desktop, mobile and beyond (hosted services seems to be their next big thing) it seems that read more
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