By Jeff on August 13, 2009
I just read the article over on AdAge predicting yet again the downfall of Flash. I have been developing Flash since 1999 and have read countless stories about the flash killer coming… like I have said before I will believe it when I see the numbers.
As far as Flash seeming slow, that is just [...]
Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Flash, Flash Runtime | Tagged Flash |
By Jeff on June 1, 2009
Flash Builder 4 delivers a long list of new features, plus improvements to many existing features.There are three main themes to this release: developer productivity, designer-developer workflow, and data-centric application development. For an overview of the features included in this first public beta release, please read Tim Buntel’s What’s New in Flash Builder 4 article [...]
Posted in ActionScript 3, Adobe, Flash, Flash Player 10, Flash Runtime | Tagged Flash |
By Jeff on April 24, 2009
Great tutorial on how to use JSON data with Flash.
Cakes Good: Flash CS3, ActionScript 3.0, JSON keep it simple tutorial.
Posted in ActionScript, ActionScript 3 | Tagged ActionScript, Flash, JSON |
By Jeff on April 20, 2009
The denizens of Hollywood and Silicon Valley have, by and large, vastly different value systems, role models, even tastes in cars, food and clothing.
But they increasingly agree on one thing: a standard for online video called Adobe Flash.
Flash was once known primarily as the technology behind those niggling Web ads in the 1990s that gyrated [...]
Posted in Flash | Tagged Flash |
By Jeff on April 20, 2009
“The Official Cave Story Blog has revealed that soon WiiWare developers will be able to code games using Flash, which opens up a world of exciting (and possibly not so exciting) gaming experiences for Wii owners.”
WiiWare to Support Flash Soon – Nintendo Life: WiiWare.
Posted in Flash | Tagged Flash, Wii |
By Jeff on April 16, 2009
The new ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API, fully supported by Facebook and Adobe, makes it easy to build applications that combine the strengths of the Flash Platform and Facebook Platform.
The Adobe Flash Platform and Facebook Platform provide the ideal solution for building rich, social experiences on the web. Flash is available on [...]
Posted in ActionScript 3, Facebook Development, Social | Tagged ActionScript, FaceBook, Flash, Social |
By Jeff on April 14, 2009
While most people may think that you can only develop Facebook apps in PHP, they would be wrong. You can actually do it all in Flash or even ColdFusion. Adobe recently announced the work they have been doing with Facebook to enable Flash to work directly with FB:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/facebook/Â
This is great news for the Flash community [...]
Posted in ActionScript, ActionScript 3, Advertising, ColdFusion, Facebook Development, Social | Tagged FaceBook, Flash, Social |
By Jeff on February 17, 2009
I was animating a series of 3D Panels today in Papervision and spent a lot of time trying to figure out why my MouseEvent wasn’t working when I clicked on an item. This was the solution:
panel.addEventListener(InteractiveScene3DEvent.OBJECT_PRESS, clickListener)
Make use of InteractiveScene3DEvent instead of a normal MouseEvent to allow the click to be used in Papervision3D. [...]
Posted in ActionScript 3, papervision3D | Tagged Flash, papervision3D |