Hereby I launch a little project I've been working on. The UIModifier is a Flex component to modify properties of a DisplayObject. It mimics the working of the modifier found in the Flash IDE. It can modify the width, height, x, y and rotation with a custom pivot point. It is not finished yet, but the basic functionality is ready.

 

I found a nice article of 8bitrocket on how to create a rotated bitmap of a DisplayObject. This works nice if the source is a square but with objects with different width and height values it's a bit tricky. (it could be that I didn't see the solution but it's a huge article).

 

The year of the browser they call 2008.

Firefox 3 (gecko+tracemonkey), Chrome (webkit+v8), IE 8 (mshtml) are coming or are already landed.
Also Flash 10 is coming + Silverlight 2.
Instead of calling it a browser war I suggest to call it a technology war because all these technologies are compared with one and another.

The mx.effects.Move class has given me a lot of headaches lately. Yesterday I discovered that a bug in a project i'm working on was caused by this class. I replaced the move class with the tweener class and the bug was disappeared. Somehow the class caused other sprites to turn invisible at random (maybe they got moved to, I still don't know what exactly happened).

Adobe, is there a simple reason why there is still no 64-bits version of the Flash Player?

The last year I focussed myself, together with Cross Media Ventures,  a lot on web video with Flash. We tried to stream video with Red5 and FMS (2 and 3) and Wowza. Every server worked well until the connections reached a limit.

Product:	Max Connections	Price
FMS:	600	€ 1200
Red5:	800	Free
Wowza:	1000	€ 750
Windows:	1500	€ 500

 

In the time Flash 6 was the latest version of Flash I filled a bug regarding the TextField and HTML output.

Flash Player 10 is coming ... Astro is packed with new stuff that is to sweet to be true. I'm very pleased to see they finally did something with the text new engine.

Download Flash Player 10 pre-release

IE7 in combination with Flash on a ssl connection failes when the server doesn't reacts with the following headers:

Code is PHP:

header('Cache-Control: cache, must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');

source

AIR 1.0 is released and therefor there is a lot of reading on the web about it.

First of all people still don't see what AIR enables for certain developers. Well it's quite simple: Web developers can create desktop applications with stuff they already know (Flash or HTML/CSS/Javascript or a mixture of both). No need for learning Java SWT or something similar (cross-platform UI toolkit).

BlueBerry Internet Media needs developers! We're looking for PHP and Flex developers, if you can do both you're hired (probably). Are you living near Breda (the netherlands)?

Please post a comment, we'll get in touch!

Just want to say: Buzzword is amazing beautiful... Is it strange that I have a small hope that the Adobe will release the editor as component?.

I'm working on a project that loads 60 mb of images, there are 60 pages with an average of 1 mb of images. Loading all the pages is not an option because the memory of the clients computer would fillup. So I created a method that would unload pages 3 steps back and 3 steps forward and load the pages in between.

I'm currently working on a project which has to load a bunch of images and videos.

Always when I'm working on a Flex project I use Flash files for skinning/fonts/graphics etc. Because I can open *.fla files within the Windows Explorer just by double clicking you would asume that Flex could do the same.

We (BlueBerry) released today the beta of BabbaVideo, a video site.

I can't wait, tomorrow Adobe Live in the Rai Amsterdam.

With everything in life there will be people against something or not. Since the release of Adobe Media Player (AMP) I've read a lot of news sites and the posted user comments about the subject of DRM and Flash as advertising medium.

If Flash, Flex, Photoshop etc where ported to Linux I would switch immediately. The last 2 weeks I tried to work in Ubuntu Edgy. Besides all the wonderful applications already installed by the default installation I miss the Adobe products (and default support for my wireless network adapter).

Adobe released the final version of the Linux Flash Player, unfortunately no x86_64 support.

Finally Adobe gave a sign of life around the next Flash Media Server. You can post your wishes at Steve Wolkoff's blog. I've posted my wishlist there with many others and the ideas are overwhelming. I hope especially that the strange licensing issues will be resolved. Also the Apollo stuff is great to look at and dream about.

BlueChat is a Flash Media Server application. It is completely written by me. The frontends are made in Flash 8 (Flex 2 was not yet released when we started). And the backend is a mixture between Flash Media Server and PHP.

The v2 components of Flash are brilliant and at the same time they can be very annoying and work against you. The pain is that the components are not preload-friendly because everything is exported at frame one.

I'm currently working on an application build with Flash Media Server (FMS) and Flash 8. When the application goes live I will post a link to it. I think if Flex 2 has came out one month sooner I would have used Flex. Although the challenge was big enough with FMS alone. And the gap between Actionscript 1.0 (FMS) and Actionscript 3.0 (Flex2) would be to big.

Flash has an internal javascript API called Macromedia Flash JavaScript API. Very nice and I completely forgot about it when in first appears. But since a few weeks I use it more and more after I discovered it.

sIFR is a very nice way to make your site just a little more beautiful.

I'm working on a project which is using a lot of datagrids. Disregarding styling the datagrid is a masterpiece in usage.