November 2010
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Flash Gaming Summit 2011
I will be heading out the flash gaming summit in San Francisco this upcoming February. It looks to be like a fun day of talking shop and get some inspiration for the new year. Let me know if you’ll be up there for the summit. I usually like to take a couple days on either side to enjoy the location a bit more, but since this is just one day I may just go up and back same day.
September 2010
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SourceMate Makes Flash Builder Awesome
I recently discovered a plugin for Flash Builder called Source Mate. I used the 30 day trial and had no issue paying the 80 bucks for the full license. In my opinion Adobe just needs to buy these guys and include their extension with every copy of Flash Builder. They add many things that have been desired by the flash development community like snippets, code generation, and more. I also just...
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Speaking at FITC (MAX Unconference)
I was recently confirmed as a speaker for the upcoming unconference at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles. I haven’t been to max since it was in Anaheim and I look forward to going again. It’s always fun to be part of FITC no matter where they are doing their thing. I am doing a session on integrating Facebook with flash. I’ll specifically be covering how to interact with the graph api...
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Graph API: issues posting to feed
I have been using the graph api instead of the old REST api when integrating with facebook lately. There have been a couple issues here and there, but for the most part it has been a breeze and an amazing increase in speed. No longer having to make complicated requests and things that is a real blessing. The guys over at big space ship made it even easier by writing a slick oauth bridge that...
August 2010
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Installing Adobe AIR woes
I just had a hell of a time getting Adobe AIR installed. this little diddy did the trick:
in Terminal: cd /Users/USER_NAME/Library/Application\ Support/ sudo chown -R USER_NAME:staff Adobe
After that I could install it just fine.
found this here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2984830#2984830
FITC San Francisco 2010
This week I was able to attend FITC San Francisco. I haven’t been to a conference in a few years and Pucknell and his crew didn’t disappoint at all. The venue was the perfect size to keep all the sessions close by so there wasn’t much walking between sessions. Free lunch every day that was actually pretty decent. There was a great line up of speakers full of inspiration and...
June 2010
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LA Flash Facebook Demo Source Files
Last week I spoke at LA Flash and did a demo on using the as3 facebook API with flash. You can download the source files here: http://demos.kineticz.s3.amazonaws.com/laflash/laflashfbdemo.zip.
There is a read me file in there. Please review that to help you get your app setup and compile properly. Enjoy!
*UPDATE: Meeting info was updated on the LA Flash...
May 2010
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Top 5 Favorite Things about Flash CS5
I have been using the Adobe CS5 for development since it was officially released and I have grown very comfortable in it right away. I plan to write more detailed impressions later with more info on some of the new things, but for now my top 5 favorite things about Flash CS51) Performance: I love OSX. I disagree with most things Apple these days, but at this point I am not interested in migrating...
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JSFL command: Get Asset Names
Whenever I code ActionScript projects in FlashBuilder I usually need to disable the option to automatically declare stage instances in the Flash IDE. This is so I can specify the the variable names in the class that a library item is associated with. One irritation with that was going back and forth between the Flash IDE and FlashBuilder to write out all the stage instances and data types. About 2...
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TLF Text breaks swfs Embedded in FlashBuilder
I just spent quite awhile trying to figure out a pretty obnoxious bug I just discovered in CS5. My workflow typically includes a .fla file with all of the assets for a project that I will embed as a byte array in Flash Builder using code like this:
[Embed(source=”assets/PROJECT_library.swf”, mimeType=”application/octet-stream”)] private var AssetLibrary : Class;
Then...
Developing with Coda
Great resource on getting the most out of codeigniter development with coda: http://www.digitalistic.com/2009/03/31/pimp-my-coda/
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FITC Award Winner
A project I worked on in 2009 with Blitz Agency won the people’s choice award at FITC Tornoto. It was an intense job and has received a few awards. The creative team did an amazing job and it was a pleasure to be able to work with Blitz to get this launched.
More info about the project here: http://www.blitzagency.com/ourWork.aspx?project=114&template=pp
April 2010
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Cherry Popper
We are back to blogging. More to come =)