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Adobe Kuler 2.0 is live!

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Flash Player, Rich Internet Applications, kuler, web 2.0, web integration | 5 Comments »

Adobe Kuler is a Flash based web application (and now with an available AIR version) that helps designers and developers with color themes.  Designers can design their own color theme using the Kuler create tools, submit their theme to ...

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. ...

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 ...

AS3 Performance: For Loops

Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Rich Internet Applications | No Comments »

A while back I was reading an article on Ajaxian (I can't remember who wrote it) but it was talking about JavaScript performance tips. One of them was around writing blazing fast For loops and for some reason it ...

Flash Player Internals: Motto’s and Percentages (part one)

Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, max 2007 | 6 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 ...

Adobe Max: General Session and notes…

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 Posted in Flash Player, Rich Internet Applications, max 2007 | No Comments »

(posted on day 2 due to lack of connection) I am at Adobe MAX 2007 being held in Chicago and it was kicked off with the General Session hosted by Kevin Lynch. As with previous MAX’s the general session is ...

LocalConnection: Keeping strong types across applications

Friday, September 14th, 2007 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications | 1 Comment »

I have been working on a project that requires the use of LocalConnections (LC) and one of the things I found out was that by default the LC does not retain the Class type when communicating across the bridge. ...