Category Archives: ActionScript

Making the case for ActionScript

This last week or two we’ve seen a lot of heated debate around the future of ActionScript and the Flash Player. Its nice to see this kind of excitement and passion for the technology — yet I can’t help but feel we’re experiencing a form of ‘continental drift’ here. I’ve seen ActionScript grow up from read more »

Mobile Vikings API – ActionScript 3.0 implementation

I was very impressed to see Mobile Vikings (see earlier post) released an API that allows us to get hold of our account data. I’ve spent an hour or two working on an ActionScript 3.0 implementation that you can use in your AIR applications. Right now they’ve provided three API calls: retrieve your SIM balance, read more »

Flash Builder 4 beta – exporting ASDoc documentation

Despite the excellent ASDoc integration added in Flash Builder 4 beta, it seems its still not easy to export to HTML and you need to set it up yourself using an external tool configuration. I spent some time trying to figure it out and stumbled across a post by Seb Lee-Delisle that gives a good read more »

Flash Builder 4 beta – my favorite features

In case you didn’t know yet, Flash Builder 4 beta (the product previously known as Flex Builder) is now available for download on labs.adobe.com, as is the beta for Flash Catalyst. I’ve been playing around with the public beta for a little bit and thought it was worth blogging some of my favorite features in read more »