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Link: Actionscript 3 – Don’t User the Timer to Make Timers

Posted by Mark - 27/02/09 at 10:02:47 am

An interesting bug in the Timer class -http://flexandair.com/?p=32

Turn’s out it can’t count properly – helpful eh?

Link: Adobe AIR 1.5.1 released!

Posted by James - 25/02/09 at 10:02:31 am

http://blogs.adobe.com/air/2009/02/adobe_air_151_released.html

Apart from bugfixes, they’ve introduced a new event – InvokeEvent.reason – you can see why your application was started (user interaction, or automatic startup on login), so you can behave accordingly.

Tutorial Link: jQuery for Absolute Beginners

Posted by James Cannings - 24/02/09 at 03:02:21 pm

http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/jquery-for-absolute-beginners-video-series/

These look great (apart from the fact that he uses Visual Studio 2008 as his editing environment!). If you prefer video’s to books (or just like a combination) then you would do well to work through these.

Geocoding Google Maps locations to a Papervision3D globe.

Posted by James - 23/02/09 at 06:02:31 pm

In the June 2008 edition of the Adobe Edge newsletter, there was an article “Learn how to geocode with Papervision3D and Adobe Flex”.  You can also view the demo directly.

Pretty awesome, eh?  All of the sample source code is available from the Adobe Edge page.

About the Link: spam

Posted by James - 23/02/09 at 10:02:34 am

I’m sorry about this – it looks like Psyked is turning into a links machine. It’s really not, you know. I’m trying to avoid it, and write original content, but it’s so darned hard to find time (plus, I’m working a lot on things like ImageSizer). And decent links are so easy to find.

So, have faith – I’m working on something original. For now, I’m afraid – it’s back to the Link: spam.

Link: Flash and the iPhone

Posted by James - 23/02/09 at 09:02:10 am

Here’s something I found quite interesting – “Why Apple don’t want Flash on the iPhone… and why Adobe do.” A persuasive article about the possible business reasons behind the Flash and iPhone conflict.

Link: Webcam Green Screen Effect with Pixel Bender

Posted by James - 20/02/09 at 12:02:02 pm

http://www.zeropointnine.com/blog/webcam-green-screen-effect-w-pixel-bender