Archive for May, 2008

AIR Create-Modify-Reuse

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Back on the 25th of April, I posted a little something about us (Matt & me ... and Toddly Anderson) releasing a certain book entitled Adobe AIR, Create-Modify-Reuse, published by Wiley & Sons. Well, at that time, MXNA was down, so only a few regular viewers saw it. So I figured ...

To Google & Yahoo!: Please Distribute Map APIs for Developers Who Dont Use the Flex SDK!

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Dear Google & Yahoo!, In recent months both of you have released wonderful ActionScript libraries that allow us developers to access your mapping services. To have the same power (questionably more) as JavaScript developers is totally freakin' radical. What more can us developers ask for when giant companies give us code ...

Duplicate a DisplayObject as a BitMap

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

In working on a project, I created a simple utility class that has this public static method. This basically takes a DisplayObject, copies it, and adds it to a new Sprite which is then returned to the caller. Simple enough. I'm sure this can be refined or done a different ...

More Than Two Simultaneous Key Presses and KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN Woes

Monday, May 12th, 2008

I'm rather annoyed right now. For whatever reason, I didn't think that determining if the user has 3 keys pressed at once would be so difficult. Attempt to press all the arrow keys that correspond to the arrows being displayed... Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and ...

Headed to FITC Chicago. Free Books?

Friday, May 9th, 2008

So I just got the OK from work to go to the FITC Chicago event. I'm pretty excited because I'm actually quite interested in the sessions that are going to be happening at the one day event. Most particularly I'm looking forward to hearing Samuel ...

R&D Departments & AD Agencies.

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

There was a pretty interesting entry up on CREATIVITY (online) last week. It was about how Arnold, Boston started it's very own Research & Development department, staffed with a couple of young technologist/designers. [read here] My opinion on this matter is a bit mixed. Part of me is looking at this ...