After a year of neglect, we have finally revamped our blog. This new look will hopefully pressure us (more so, me) into posting more.

One main reason why we haven't been updating this site as much within the past year is that we've been working on Adobe AIR: Create-Modify-Reuse (or just Adobe AIR: CMR). I know we have posted some info about this in the past, but I we're pretty excited since it's finally coming out.

Adobe CMR was written by Todd Anderson and the two of us (Matt & Marc). Additional support for the book included our editor, Brian Hermann and technical editor, Ash Atkins.

The book is a learn-by-example guide to AIR. It is in no way a reference manual. However, if you find that you learn better by building, but don't necessarily know where to start, this is for you. Adobe AIR CMR takes you through eleven sample applications that you can modify and call your own. All together, I believe the book came together really well and is something we are all proud of. If you so happen to pick it up, we hope that you enjoy it.

AIR, ActionScript 3, Books, Flex      4 Comments »

Out of boredom the other day I wrote this class to create a simple animated buffering indicator, you know...the ones we always see everywhere that look like a pinwheel. Here's an example of what you can do with it:

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ActionScript 3, Flash, Flex      4 Comments »

So I finally decided to have a go (no pun intended) with Moses new Go tween framework. I've only scratched the surface, but its pretty cool how easy it was to create a simple tween class that can tween the properties of any object.

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Recently, as seen via MXNA, I've noticed quite a bit of discourse over Adobe's future plans with the Flash platform. Specifically, are few people are nervous that Adobe will abandon the Flash IDE and perhaps focus on other development platforms such as Flex Builder. Its a rather interesting thing to think about at this point in time and, after reading a few posts, I'm a bit surprised that anyone is nervous.

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I haven't been up on posting lately, mainly because Matt Wright, Todd Anderson and I have been in a lock down trying to get the our book, Adobe AIR Create-Modify-Reuse, ready for publishing. As of last night, we reached our goal. The book is written and is placed on the back-burner for a while.

Apparently it now goes to Wiley (publisher) for in-house reviews, style changes, etc. We'll see the book again before it's finished. As it is, Adobe AIR/Flex 3 hasn't gone gold yet, and we'll probably have to update our code one final time when that happens. We will most likely have to change applicationDirectory back to applicationResourceDirectory or someting new like nativeApplicationDirectory.

Either way, thank you Matt, Todd and Brian (our editor) for your help with our book. Everyone should stay tuned as to when it will actually be released.

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Made another fix to AS3BloggerLib. Previously there was a problem with how I was handling the id and blogPostID properties of Comment objects. This has been resolved and all files have been updated at Google Code.

AIR, AS3BloggerLib, ActionScript 3, Flex      3 Comments »