Keeping with the algebraic/code functions as titles from my Last post I thought I would put some thoughts down regarding the news from Adobe earlier this week of their Open Screen Project (OSP). Anyone working in the Web/Internet industry at the moment will be well aware of the Rich Internet/Interactive Application (RIA) moniker. What Adobe [...]

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Following the post by Marco Casario a couple of weeks ago, I was filled with similar excitement. In no way can I claim any of the glory that Marco certainly deserves. But In some small way I am equally as proud to have been Technical Reviewer (thorn in Marco’s side :p ) for his book [...]

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{UPDATE 1} What I have found use full and Interesting is a post over HERE, related to Flex 3. It provides a useful link if you want to get involved in the Pre-release. Now on to the rant {/UPDATE 1} {UPDATE 2} After re-reading Ted’s post there is one section that i quite important to [...]

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Today on Adobe.com I noticed the news that Adobe have released the source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine to Mozilla Foundation. The release, which is dated 7th November 2006 can be found here and provides more information. From the release it sound like the code is to be included into future releases of the [...]

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As Mike over at Flashgen.com and also Aral Balkan reports it seems someone is looking to contest the ridiculous Balthaser RIA patent that was reported a while ago by a number of Flash developers. I have also been contacted by Oliver Lorenz with regard to providing more information and certainly urge anyone that wants to [...]

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I am an avid user of eclipse and so this evening knocked together this simple Ant build.xml file. The file allows generation of AS3 class ASDocs from within the Eclipse IDE. I am not an Ant master, far from it, so if anyone has any ideas on making this more usefull feel free to leave [...]

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I have had a number of emails, messenger texts, and comment’s on my blog, asking for further information from my presentation notes on localizing flash. Localizing flash has such a wide scope of information, when I prepared my presentation I did take the ‘data blast’ approach of delivery. I had a good idea the area(s) [...]

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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 . Thanks to AKQA for the venue, [...]

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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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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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**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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With the release of Flex 2 and the announcement that Flash 9 (‘Blaze’) is available on labs. You may also like to know that the Flash 9 player is available to download and install. As mentioned in a previous post here. This is the first time the flash player/VM has not been linked to the [...]

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First snippet dealing with AS3.0 after added Snippets Category — This one deals with embedding fonts.

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One thing I had been curious of in the AS 3.0 Projects i have been experimenting on was how i specify a root stage size to my SWF.

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