Flex 4 Now Available for download

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Flex 4 code named Gumbo is now available for download in Adobe Open Source site here: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4

Flash Player 10 FileReference Changes

Posted by at 12-31-1969

In this post I hope to address some of the concerns raised by Keith Peters in his recent blog post. In the post Keith brings up some existing applications that will be broken because of the new security enhancements to the FileReference class. I for one had no idea that this issue existed so thanks [...]

The Throw Slider tutorial is now live

Posted by at 12-31-1969

I just finished uploading a new tutorial that shows you how to create a regular slider and then take it to another level by adding throw physics to it. Trust me, this is not you parent’s slider! Most of what I’ve learned about animation physics comes from Keith Peter’s excellent ActionScript Animation book. Check it [...]

Disney.com 3.0 is live

Posted by at 12-31-1969

It’s been a long time, 9 months to be exact. 9 months ago we started porting the site formerly known as Disney XD to AS3. This was a massive initiative. The entire framework had to ported, and all the gadgets and panels that existed on the site, somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 total all [...]

Mike Chambers guest stars on gotoAndLearn()

Posted by at 12-31-1969

I just finished uploading a new tutorial created by Mike Chambers that shows you how to get setup with Adobe AIR on Linux. It’s always been my goal to include tutorials by other authors but there has always been the issue of quality control. This obviously won’t be an issue with Mike as he knows [...]

Flash conference season is here!

Posted by at 12-31-1969

The late summer and fall are definitely the busiest times for Flash conferences and this year is looking to be especially packed. I will be attending the conferences listed below and will be speaking at all of them in some form or another. Hopefully one of these events is happening near you so you can [...]

AMFPHP Security Basics

Posted by at 12-31-1969

As I mentioned in my last video tutorial on AMFPHP, I want to take a few minutes and talk about the steps you can take to make it as secure as possible. Most of what I’m going to share was taken from a blog post written by Wade Arnold. One important thing to note right [...]

Introduction to AMFPHP 2 tutorial is live

Posted by at 12-31-1969

I just finished uploading the second part of the AMFPHP tutorial. In this one I show you how you can directly return a MySQL result set to Flash CS3. It’s amazing how much easier it is than writing out a bunch XML. I also go into the basics of using the Flash CS3 debugger [...]

Presenting at Flash Forward 2008 in San Francisco

Posted by at 12-31-1969

Long time no blog! I just found out I will be presenting at Flash Forward in San Francisco on August 21, 2008. At this point I know I will be presenting with Neil Ishibashi, Disney.com Art Director extraordinaire. As to what exactly we will be presenting, I’m not 100% sure. I know it will be along the lines of [...]

Adobe proposes AMF support for Zend Framework

Posted by at 12-31-1969

Since my last couple of posts and tutorials have been focused on PHP, it is good timing to tell you that AMF will soon be coming to the Zend Framework. Much like AMFPHP, the proposed Zend_Amf component will make communication between Flash and PHP lightening fast. What’s even better news is that the guy Zend [...]