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FOTB: Day One

Posted by James - 30/09/08 at 08:09:27 am

Wow.  That’s another day gone – its funny really, you feel like you’ve been here for ages based on what you’ve seen, but then you step back and realise it’s only Monday.

John Davis’ Keynote was a good introduction – teasing us with the features of Flash Player 10 – and setting us up for Wednesdays’ session on “The Ying and Yang of Flash”.  I missed the mornings session on “Mash-up widgets with Adobe AIR”, but caught Brendan Halls’ “Brilliant Ideas that I’ve blatantly stolen” – which had some really interesting ideas – and saw Thermo in all its prerelease glory at Mark Anders’ “A Preview of Flex 4 and ‘Thermo’”

Really interesting however was the session by Erik Natzke on “Beyond the Knowledge: The Art of Play” where he showed how he’s developed Flash into and art tool, and uses it to create works of art like the one above and those on Flickr and his blog.  Inspiring stuff.

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FOTB: Day Zero

Posted by James - 28/09/08 at 08:09:07 pm

It’s coming up to 8pm on Sunday 28th, and that means the Workshops day for Flash on the Beach 2008 is over – but the fun begins again in only another 12 hours, with talks such as “Brilliant Ideas that I’ve blatantly stolen”, “Mash-up widgets with Adobe AIR” and “Modulating a lot” on the cards for tomorrow.

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Flash vs. Silverlight 2.0

Posted by James - 27/09/08 at 12:09:55 pm

Peter Elst posted something interesting – a counter-arguement to an article published in the “Inside Digital Media” magazine…

http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2008/09/26/flash-vs-silverlight-20/#comment-19297

I haven’t got a copy of the article, but Peter’s post is interesting.  I think it sets the tone with this quote;

“Facebook, MySpace, Google and eBay are not made in Flash, that is undoubtedly due to the fact that at that time they were not able to agree on licensing terms with MacroMedia”

Pop over there and have a read -  see what you think.

Introducing the AIR Badger…

Posted by Mark - 24/09/08 at 01:09:06 pm

This tool (Badger) allows you to easily create air badges for use on your website and offers live previews of the badge. Grant Skinner explains…

http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/09/beware_the_air.html

Also, see the article “Using Badger for Adobe AIR applictions” on the Adobe Developer Connection site.

Back to School: Top 10 Adobe Flex and AIR applications for students

Posted by James - 18/09/08 at 10:09:47 am

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/apps_students.html

ActionScript 2 – XML CDATA returns undefined, or htmlText doesn’t work!

Posted by James - 17/09/08 at 08:09:13 am

The problem:

Your XML file is fine, it validates as XML.  The file encoding and the xml declaration encoding match.  You can parse the XML, but when you try and put html inside a CDATA element, and then populate a dynamic textbox with it, either your formatting doesn’t work (the text still has <b> tags in) or it returns ‘undefined’.

The solution:

This could actually be a twofold problem, and is not helped along by Flash’s quirks.  Its most likely that you’re either;

• Accessing the XMLNode incorrectly,

Or

• Being tripped up by the Flash players’ slightly dodgy XML parsing.

Accessing CDATA correctly

Now, the way that you should be accessing Continue reading ActionScript 2 – XML CDATA returns undefined, or htmlText doesn’t work!…

Google Analytics — Unveiled.

Posted by James - 12/09/08 at 11:09:10 am

Google have released the google analytics on their google code service – which basically means they’re opening up the API & stuff like that in a similar way to the way google maps works, and allows you to configure and customise it.

http://analytics.blogspot.com/2008/09/decoding-google-analytics.html

I wonder what Nicolas Lierman (the guy who spent months reverse engineering the API to build an AIR Application version of Google Analytics) feels about them just making it open… (Gutted, I bet)

Also: Ever wondered what the difference is between Google Analytics and Urchin software? http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55536