Just finished writing a chapter for Advanced Flex 3 - a forthcoming Friends of Ed title, due out in October. The authors are Shashank Tiwari, Elad Elrom and Jack Herrington (I’m just contributing one chapter on 3D, mostly about Papervision).
The problem is, as with all writing (apart from blogging, which is more or less [...]

The bug reported by Tink on sensible package names for Flash/Flex/AIR is open. I have also made some refinement suggestions. Surely we can do better than fl.*, flash.*, mx.*, and the appallingly underused air.*!
Show your support (and make any further suggestions) at the bug on Adobe’s Jira.

In the flash site I’m working on, I have a TextField in one section and a TextArea (Flash) component in another. I am using the Verdana font. The TextField works perfectly. The TextArea on the other hand, for some reason, renders the font in a weird ugly way.
I suspected it might be something to do [...]

I’m getting mixed signals here about Flash SEO. I read Ryan Stewart’s post on Flash SEO. This passage stood out:
We are giving a special, search-engine optimized Flash Player to Yahoo and Google which is going to help them crawl through every bit of your SWF file. This Flash Player will act just like a person [...]

At the moment I am (sadly) working on amends to an ActionScript 2 app. It uses the Proxy class from the ASCB library (AS2 version).
It seems the site that hosted this code has been hijacked and replaced with some “leetspeak” and some awful song about God with the lyrics scrolling past karaoke-style.
I wonder [...]

I’ve just noticed a minor bug with TweenMax (and, I presume, TweenLite).
I set up a tween using TweenMax, and set an “onComplete” method. Then, after compiling, I noticed that there my method was throwing an NPE. However, instead of just throwing the exception once, it continued throwing it again and again: presumably, every frame. I [...]

I am noticing that the Firefox 3 beta stuffs up my Flash websites that use SWFAddress.
It doesn’t actually break the official examples, so maybe I’m doing something wrong, but my sites work fine in Safari (and on FF2) and break with FF3.
Mike Chambers notes that there has been a new release of FF3 beta to [...]

Questions from the audience in italics. Answers from various Adobe folks, I didn’t catch their names, sorry.
Will Adobe offer a Coldfusion IDE based on Eclipse?
“Having an IDE specifically for Coldfusion development is probably the most-requested features. We do take that very seriously … at the same time we are working on figuring out how we [...]

Just attended a seminar at the WebDu conference called “hooking stuff up to Flash just because you can”, by Michael Wise from omniEffect.
Very interesting; I learned about a lot of things I’d never heard of, like flosc, the Flash OpenSound Control. He explained how multi-touch screens work, in a way that made sense (total [...]

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