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12 Websites To Help You Learn Flash/ActionScript

Posted by Mark - 29/01/09 at 02:01:14 pm

http://css-edge.blogspot.com/2008/08/12-websites-to-help-you-learn.html

Building a project tracker in Flex & AIR

Posted by James - 29/01/09 at 10:01:10 am

Ok, this isn’t going to be a tutorial – not yet anyways.  So many projects, so little time to write about them.

As part of my attempts to improve the way I work, I’ve been on the look out for a private hosting solution for Subversion, that comes with project management tools like bug reporting, and – crucially – an API that I can work with in Actionscript.  My rather uninspired image above is the first draft of my bug tracking tool.

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A reason why Photoshop CS4 kicks ass

Posted by James - 28/01/09 at 10:01:54 am

Here’s one reason why Photoshop CS4 kicks ass (here’s something completely new).

It’s called “Content-Aware Scale“.  Unlike the transform controls from previous iterations, this scaling mode is somehow aware of the contents of an image and can discern what elements you want to scale.

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Brighter Horizons for Web Education

Posted by James - 28/01/09 at 09:01:04 am

This is an interesting article for ‘A List Apart’ – basically discussing the fact that Web Education (ie. Design, Development and concepts) and the education model is progressing too slow for it to keep pace with its subject material.  I, and several others I’ve spoken to all feel the same way – that the course requirements and assignments are too out-of-date and limited before they reach the classroom, and in many situations the teaching staff for these subjects aren’t sufficiently skilled or knowledgeable about their subject in order to teach it.  (Which is understandable when you consider it!).

A List Apart: Articles: Brighter Horizons for Web Education.

Adobe Developer Center – Creating a driving directions Flex app using the Google Maps API for Flash

Posted by James - 27/01/09 at 12:01:06 pm

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

Updating Flex Builder

Posted by James - 27/01/09 at 09:01:31 am

http://blog.natebeck.net/2009/01/tip-of-the-day-update-your-copy-of-flex-builder/

Saving Images Out of Flash/Flex Without Losing Quality

Posted by James - 26/01/09 at 02:01:40 pm

Flash Player 10 comes with a nifty new method for the flash.net.FileReference class called “save“. What’s dope is that you can send it a ByteArray, and it’ll write it verbatim. This means, saving images out of your Flash & Flex Applications is wicked fast now AND gets around that lamesauce security restriction that plagued a lot of older Flash Player 9 code…

http://jessewarden.com/2009/01/saving-images-out-of-flashflex-without-losing-quality.html