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In April 2008, Adobe imposed new security restrictions on socket connections made by Flash Player. Starting with Flash Player 9.0.124.0, all socket connections made to a server require authorization via a socket policy file. For a general introduction to the issue of mandatory socket policy files, see Unity technote 00005. For full, gory coverage of the security changes made in Flash Player 9.0.124.0, including their motivation and required action, see...
Following last year's hugely successful Flex Camp Toronto, the team at New Toronto Group has begun accepting free registrations for Flex Camp Toronto 2. Ben Forta and I will be speaking at the event, scheduled for May 15th, 2008 at...
Following last year's hugely successful Flex Camp Toronto, the team at New Toronto Group has begun accepting free registrations for Flex Camp Toronto 2. Ben Forta and I will be speaking at the event, scheduled for May 15th, 2008 at...
I’m an avid user of Twitter. I’m also a Flash developer so it figures I had created a Twitter badge in Flash to display on my old blog. I even had a tutorial on how to do it. The thing is; Twitter all of a sudden decided to close off their feeds to Flash. By [...]
Here are the new Flash and Flex jobs from the OSFlash job board for this week:
Web Developer, The Magazine Network - Conde Nast Publications, Inc., New York, NY
Flash Developer, CondéNet Creative Service - Condé Nast Publications, New York, NY
I am very excited that once more I have the honor to talk at this year's FITC conference in Toronto. Looking at the program I can see that the next days will not allow for a lot of sleep - Shawn Pucknell has once again invited an outstanding mixture of the best designers and creative developers out there. I'm looking forward to meeting lots of friends and of course to the legendary great parties at night - oh my and I will finally get to drink a Ceasar's again! In case I make it to my talk The Pixel Whisperer
I've only recently discovered KitchenSyncLib, an excellent open source ActionScript 3 library for sequencing all manner of things in Flash and Flex applications (animations, function calls, etc.)
It's an absolute joy to work with but I did hit one tiny snag: When you create a Sequence instance (or any subclass of AbstractSynchronizedActionGroup), populate it with some [...]
A couple of years ago (has it really been that long?) I was working on a project called “Brevity“. The idea behind this was a simplified language for creating AS3 experimental movies. The idea was to provide a simple syntax and IDE. Brevity code would be converted to real AS3 classes and be compiled with [...]
Following last year's hugely successful Flex Camp Toronto, the team at New Toronto Group has begun accepting free registrations for Flex Camp Toronto 2. Ben Forta and I will be speaking at the event, scheduled for May 15th, 2008 at the MARS center in Toronto. Head to the Toronto Flex user group website to register for Flex Camp Toronto. (Its free!)
If you'd like to host your own Flex Camp event, Adobe will help with the funding for the event. Head to Flex.org to find out more about hosting your own Flex Camp event.
- Mike Potter
Adobe have released version 2.5 of Flash Media Encoder. They have added support for the H.264 video codec and the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio codec. The AAC support is via a plug-in which can be purchased from MainConcept ($249).
It’s great to see support for H.264 being rolled out across the Adobe product range.
The Adobe AIR PocketGuide Book for JavaScript developers is written by the members of the AIR Team itself. The book introduces developers to Adobe AIR who are interested in building AIR Applications using Javascript, HTML and CSS.
The Adobe AIR PocketGuide Book for JavaScript developers is written by the members of the AIR Team itself. The book introduces developers to Adobe AIR who are interested in building AIR Applications using Javascript, HTML and CSS.
Hello again, flash 3D fans. Today you will be looking at REAL commercial grade flash 3D solutions in action:
The one on the left is recentry released Alternativa3D milestone tech demo. The one on the right is not so recently released Electric Oyster engine demo, but neverless I enjoy it too much to not include it in this [...]
I missed this bit of news coming out of NAB, but thanks to John Nack I’m now caught back up (the benefit of a good feed reader and the echo chamber).
I’ve seen lots of talk in the past about video search, deep tagging etc., but nothing that’s effectively realized the potential. It definitely will be [...]
Memory leaks can be hard to track down. Here's one case in Flash that
might have you stumped.
Did you know that objects listening on active timers are not eligible
for garbage collection?
Let's look at a small example. Here's a test application that creates an
object every 5 seconds:
public class TestApp extends Sprite
{
private var timer:Timer [...]
flexcf.com is a new site dedicated to the development of ColdFusion powered Flex applications. Seven tutorials have been posted already, and more are on the way.
I recently ditched my Netgear wireless router and purchased Apple’s AirPort Extreme. I’ve been pretty happy with its range and I’m no longer having my internet connection dropped every hour which is a plus, but I had a devil of a time figuring out how to determine what the IP addresses of other computers on [...]
TorontoFLEX is scheduled for May 15th, 2008 at MaRS Centre in Toronto, Ontario. Registration is FREE and now open. I am planning on attending this event, and hope to see you there!
This is a trivial matter, but it’s been bothering me for some time.
Why does Flex Builder insist on putting the opening curly brace of a function declaration on the next line:
function foo():void
{
.. instead of:
function foo():void {
What is the point of this waste of space, which doesn’t make anything easier to read, but justs wastes space [...]
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