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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The Weblog Tools site has a link to an AIR application aimed at blog authors, its called AirPress. AirPress seems to offer similar functionality to other blogging tools I have seen such as the ScribeFire add-on (used to be called Performancing) for FireFox. The major interesting addition in AirPress is the inclusion of webcam support [...]

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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
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{UPDATE 2}
After re-reading Ted’s post there is one section that i quite important to point out, that I [...]

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Its great to get news of an official Adobe supported Ruby based RIA SDK. I have been looking at Ruby and Rails for a few months now, long after Stuart Eccles over at LiveRail.net said I should be looking at it. Those that saw his presentation at LFPUG will understand why. For those that didn’t [...]

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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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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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