I will be speaking at Flashbelt which is in Minneapolis starting on Monday, June 9, a little under 3 weeks from now. This will be my first time attending or speaking at Flashbelt, but I’ve heard it is a great event, and it looks like Dave has put together an excellent lineup of speakers.
May 21st, 2008 by Joshua / 0 CommentsLast night Adobe announced the Open Screen Project initiative.
“The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment – taking advantage of Adobe® Flash® Player and, in the future, Adobe AIR™ — that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices, including phones, mobile internet devices (MIDs), and set top boxes.”
Very cool stuff. Too bad Apple isn’t on the list.
May 1st, 2008 by Joshua / 1 CommentI’m not writing anything that hasn’t already been documented out there before, but I did want to mention one of my favorite things about AS3 - E4X. E4X is ECMAScript for XML. You can read more about it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E4X.
XML is implemented natively into ActionScript 3… no more parsing XML files form astrong. You can leverage this to traverse XML files for specific pieces of content without the need of running a for loop or converting the XML to an object or anything. The trick is mastering the syntax.
April 23rd, 2008 by Jamie / 5 CommentsMore officially: Adobe Flash Player Bug and Issue Management System
A repository for developers to submit and review known issues. My favorite part is “Steps to Reproduce”.
April 15th, 2008 by Stephen / 0 CommentsWe have gotten a couple of emails asking what happened to the image cache class and visualizer code. I neglected to upload this stuff when moving to the new server, but the links have now been updated. Here are the original posts:
edit: oops. visualizer link is fixed now.
April 10th, 2008 by Joshua / 1 Comment
