Vivisecting Media Code Depot launched…
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications, web 2.0 | No Comments »A while back I was doing some research into the Flash Local Connection and the ability to retain object typing across Flash applications. From this research came my Local Connection Manager (LCM) which I then hosted the source from ...
Is it Flex?
Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development | 1 Comment »Earlier this morning my friend Aaron hit me up with an IM asking if I had seen SearchMe.com. It is a new visual search engine that is 100% Flash Player based and he was curious if it was Flex. ...
The Flex Code-Behind Pattern
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications, web integration | 12 Comments »The Flex code-behind pattern is a design pattern that has been around since the release of Flex 1.0 yet is not known or used by a lot of developers. The initial concept of the pattern was based on the ASP.NET ...
ActionScript 3.0: Named Loops
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript | 5 Comments »One of the benefits of working with other experienced developers is you often get to see tips and tricks they have learned over the years. ActionScript 3 has a lot of new features and functionality and even after working with ...
SXSW 2008 is almost here!
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, Music, sxsw 2008, web 2.0, web integration | 6 Comments »This will be my 3rd year in a row for the music portion of the legendary South By Southwest conference. Once again, it starts in Dallas for me where Niki drives us down to Austin for the event. ...
Aggressive “Direct” Recruiting
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, General Media / Stuff, JavaScript, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | 1 Comment »It just happened again... I am sitting at my desk and the phone rings from an "unknown" number. I answer the call and it is a Michael for Coit Staffing informing that he has been looking for me. ...
Update to Part 3 and Part 4 of Flash Internals…
Monday, December 10th, 2007 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Rich Internet Applications | No Comments »Rick Reitmaier, Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe, took a few minutes of his time to review my writeup on the JIT engine within the Flash/Tamarin VM. Rick was part of the team that helped design and build the AVM+. ...
Flash Internals: Just-in-time (JIT) compilation (part four)
Monday, November 12th, 2007 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Rich Internet Applications | 8 Comments »During the Adobe Max Conference I had the chance to sit in on “Flash Player Internals†session put on by Jim Corbett and Lee Thomason. Of all the sessions I attended at Max, this was by far the best and ...
Flash Internals: The ActionScript Virtual Machine (part three)
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, max 2007 | 2 Comments »During the Adobe Max Conference I had the chance to sit in on "Flash Player Internals" session put on by Jim Corbett and Lee Thomason. Of all the sessions I attended at Max, this was by far the best and ...
Flash Internals: Byte Code, Control Tags, Renderers… oh my! (part two)
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Rich Internet Applications, max 2007 | 3 Comments »During the Adobe Max Conference I had the chance to sit in on "Flash Player Internals" session put on by Jim Corbett and Lee Thomason. Of all the sessions I attended at Max, this was by far the best and ...
