With all the buzz these days surrounding the release of the Yahoo! Maps beta, it seems like there’s a new example popping up on every other blog. Everybody seems to be talking about how easy it was, so I had to find out for myself. I must say it was almost too easy. Yahoo! has [...]

A few weeks ago I wrote a small rant about Defending Flash… basically commenting on my frustration at the blatant ignorance surrounding the most recent technology chest beating with regards to AJAX, Flash, Flex, [insert RIA technology flavor here]. Well I thought I did a pretty good job of venting some frustration, but I must [...]

Without going into all the specifics of how to create an accordion in Flash (you can see more about that here), I had a need for the ability to swap out an icon that appears in the header (see figure 1 below) after the accordion had already been rendered to the stage. I looked all [...]