Archive for the 'Flash' Category
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Event Details: Date: Saturday July 24, 2010 from 10am – 4:30pm Location: Sabre – 3150 Sabre Drive B1-157, Southlake, TX 76092 Cost: $99 (+Eventbrite fee) – includes lunch Register here for the Intro to ActionScript 3 Workshop A few months ago I taught my first Flash class as part of the Big Design Workshop series. [...]
Posted in Flash, Flex, Misc. | 2 Comments »
Friday, April 9th, 2010
There are already a bunch of posts and commentary on the Apple SDK update prohibiting applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool, so I wont go into all the details. However I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut (as anyone who knows me can attest) [...]
Posted in Flash, Misc., Mobile | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Setting up your work environment, whether it be your Photoshop workspace or your favorite coding applications panels, can be a very individual thing. Some people like it this way some like it that way, etc.. So I wont be spending any time here talking about visual layout but rather setting up FlexBuilder ( recently renamed [...]
Posted in Flash, Flex | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
In AS2 I used a custom Broadcaster class that allowed you to fire an event and pass along an object to the listeners. As I transition and get comfortable with AS3 and the improved event model I have come across a question I cant seem to find a clear answer for. I have been trying [...]
Posted in Flash, Flex | 10 Comments »
Friday, October 26th, 2007
This wont be a long post, mainly because I don’t have much to say other than BUY THIS BOOK!! This is the FIRST O’Reilly book I have ever been able to read cover-to-cover. O’Reilly books traditionally have seems very dry, albeit the perfect technical resources, just not a “reader”. This book changes that (for me [...]
Posted in Books, Flash, Flex | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
I’m a bit late on this post, but better late than never huh? This will be short anyway though. I just wanted to say thanks to Mike Chambers, Lee Brimelow, Ryan Stewart, Daniel Dura and the rest of the onAir Bus Tour team for taking the time to stop off in Dallas. It was a [...]
Posted in Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
I’ve gotten a few emails from people asking about getting the Escape Shortcuts to work in CS3, and specifically if they still work in AS3. The answer is absolutely, although they are not enabled by default from what I can tell. Enabling them though is rather easy. Inside Flash CS3 IDE, open the panel menu [...]
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
I mentioned in my previous post that I was having installation issues with the trial downloads of Adobe’s CS3 products (namely Flash CS3 and Photoshop CS3). I assumed that I could install the trials and when my serial number arrived I’d be able to enter it (as I have in the past) before the trial [...]
Posted in Flash, Misc., Photoshop | 404 Comments »
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Our team has been eagerly awaiting our copies of CS3 to go through corporate purchasing. So when I saw Senocular’s post yesterday morning stating that the trials had finally been posted, I quickly forwarded the link to the rest of the team and we began downloading. Once the files were downloaded we all started installing… [...]
Posted in Flash | 12 Comments »
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Okay so the past few months have been a bit hectic to say the least and the blog has taken a back seat to coaching 6 year olds in soccer; organizing/coaching a basketball league for 9 year olds; finishing up another tattoo; getting the bike ready ride; getting back in shape; getting Travelocity ExperienceFinderTM into [...]
Posted in Design, Flash, Misc., Photoshop | 1 Comment »