So it’s the day after my presentation on Flash Localization. I was quite happy with how things panned out, given I had been a presentation virgin prior to last night. The presentation didn’t hurt nearly as much as I was afraid of. At least it didn’t hurt me :D.
Thanks to AKQA for the venue, support, [...]

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As myself and Mike (flashgen.com) have mentioned previously we were heavily involved in Flash ‘way back in the day’. During the time we were cutting our teeth in flash’s infancy we were involved in some (IOHO) pretty slick projects. Now if you want those to be seen EVER again we need to get some release [...]

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I have just seen that the Portable version of FireFox 2 Alpha 1 mile stone Bon Echo is available over at PortableApps.com. I have heard from friends that this is a pretty stable release, but as with all early release software Use with caution.

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It all started at university. Microsoft or MSN Australia I think it was, that was the first ‘flash’ movie I saw. And it changed everything I had seen on the web until then. Of course unlike everything else on the web at that time there was no way to see how they had done it. [...]

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Following on from Aral’s post regarding the amount of spam currently clogging the arteries of the Internet its nice to find a site that is doing something worthwhile with it all. The concept is to re-cycle Spam into computer generated Art. It also just happens to be a cool way of showing off some of [...]

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You are driving in a car at a constant speed.
On your left side is a valley.
On your right side is a fire engine travelling at the same speed as you.
In front of you is a galloping pig which is the same size as your car and you cannot overtake it.
Behind you is a helicopter flying [...]

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The ’singer’ Sophie Ellis Bextor has been found head butted to death in the apartment
of a French footballer.
Apparently, it was murder on Zidane’s floor.
Not funny? Fine

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The London Flash User Group site has now been updated. I will be giving my first ever public flash presentation. My chosen specialist subject will be localisation techniques for flash. This is something I have been banging my head against for some time, and as a result like to think I may be able to [...]

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**UPDATE**
It would seem the location of the ActionScript Documentation I was Using was that of the old Language Reference.
The Actual Location of the ActionScript 3 Language reference is in fact now here.
**UPDATE**

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Previously I have mentioned concerns with regard to compatibility of Flash Player 9, ActionScript 3, Flex 2, and the recently released Flash 9 Preview. After digging around last night for information on how to get cracking on some Action Script 3 development I found this information on LiveDocs regarding the compatibility of the various flash [...]

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