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Chrome - Thank you Google!

ChromeÂ has only been out a few hours and I have to say I already love it. My largest complaint is there isn’t a Mac version of it yet. 90% of my work is done on a Mac, of the 10% of the time I spend on the PC about 5% of that is spent in [...]Rss AD

Adobe will announce CS4 on September 23rd!

That’s right we will be officially announcing the 4th version of the Creative Suite on September 23rd. Now before you get the wrong idea, this is NOT the release date but rather our official unveiling of it. You can register to view a special web broadcast that will take place on the 23rd. I highly [...]Rss AD

ActionScript 3 Wedge Drawing Class

Here is another class that I wrote thanks to this old tutorial. This is similar to the Arc class except that it draws wedges instead. These are great for doing lightweight charting stuff. You can get the code at my Google Code repository. The example below rapidly animates new wedge shapes creating a cool effect. [...]Rss AD

ActionScript 3 Arc Drawing Class

It seems nowadays that there has been a resurgence of experimentation happening with Flash. Seeing Natzke’s generative art at Flash Forward and checking out Keith’s new book site has gotten me inspired to do more artistic experimentation. One of the things that I have always wanted to do is to draw perfect arcs using the [...]Rss AD

Presenting Flash and PHP in Vermont

On Thursday night I have the great pleasure of speaking to the Burlington VT PHP User Group. I will be going into detail on the various ways in which you can integrate PHP with Flash and Flex. I’ll start out talking about the basics like XML integration and then move to more advanced methods like [...]Rss AD

New issue of Flash and Flex Developer Magazine

I just received the second issue of Flash & Flex Developer Magazine in the mail. This magazine is the only one that is devoted entirely to what we do. You can find the first issue in bookstores right now if you live in the US. This second issue is quite a bit better than their [...]Rss AD

Flash Player 10 Dynamic Sound Slider

I’ve been playing around lately with the new sound features in Flash Player 10. I decided to combine my throw slider with these features to create the Flash movie below. You can throw the slider to hear the frequencies change. These changes are also reflected in the graphical waveform. I’ve included the source below. You can [...]Rss AD

Flash Forward 2008 Conference Report

This past week I attended Flash Forward 2008 in San Francisco. Unlike most conferences, I didnâ��t have to travel for this one as I live only about 30 minutes outside of the city. This Flash Forward was also the first under the new ownership of Beau Amber from Metalliq. The format for this conference was [...]Rss AD

Now Read and Write local files directly from Flash Player 10

This is so wonderful !!! This has probably been the most requested feature since the day I started working with Flash. Of course, there are certain restrictions in the way files can be read and written to, but those limitations are definitely something which one can live with for such a nice feature. As I understand, userâ��s have to initiate a read or write action and it cannot be self invoked by the player and as with FileReference the locations of the file being loaded or written to will not be exposed. Astro is getting thrilling day by day. Wonderful job Adobe !!!

I just hope that the Sandbox Restriction (the *most* hated feature of Flash Player) doesnâ��t gets more stringer with this. That one feature broke around 10 projects of mine and I had to spend a lot of time fixing them up. And it was even more painful with CDROM based projects where there were no alternatives to fall back on.

Read more about it directly from Mike Chambers blog here.

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Flex 4 Now Available for download

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

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