The Joy of E4X!

Prior to AS3, working with XML was a drag. The semantics of manipulating an XML object definitely left much to be desired. Well, AS3 changed all that by bringing us E4X. If you don’t already know, E4X stands for ECMAScript for XML and it introducesREAD MORE

JSFL :: ExportImage

Here’s a useful command that will take all the bitmaps in your library and export them as PNGs to a directory of your choosing. This shortcut was made a lot easier thanks to the new exportPNG() method introduced in Flash 8.

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* JSFL ExportImage
* Author:READ MORE

Robert Penner joins the Flash team

It’s official! The godfather himself, Robert Penner is now part of the Flash engineering team and is already hard @ work digging into the development of Flash 9 aka “Blaze”. Response from the dev community has been warm with many feeling that this is our bestREAD MORE

OOP Madness!!

Working on a client project I decided to port one of my FLAs to a class (for reusability). Simple enough. My main goal was to not have to do any major recoding since I’m thinking “future class” in the 1st place. Well, part of theREAD MORE

Google Brings Video to Adwords

Google is soon to release “click-to-play” video ads on its content network. These new ads will join their existing lineup of text, Flash and image based ads. The initial rollout will be the US, Canada and Japan with other regions soon to follow.

These adsREAD MORE

Battle of the Bandwidth!!!

Makes me feel like I’m still in combat (..not funny). This past Friday my blog went down again due to heavy traffic from my tutorials. I’m glad but @ the same time I’ve got to get it figured out.In the first 10 days of theREAD MORE

New Classes

Caught the urge the other day to finish up some classes I had started on a while ago. During the wrap up I got a Java-Doc inspiration. The result (4) nifty little classes with complete documentation that simplify everyday life in Flash. I present XMLMenu,READ MORE

Guestbook Reloaded and Revolutions

Some folks were still in need after viewing Flash Guestbook Basics so I’ve added (2) more videos. Part 2 covers building the PHP script that handles the Flash to MySQL communication while Part 3 deals solely with getting the MySQL database setup. Hopefully this willREAD MORE

Sign My Guestbook

This topic pops up alot on the gotoAndLearn() forums. So, I decided to do a tutorial on it. I focus mainly on the Flash side since that’s the common factor amongst the GAL users. Plus, including the code for doing it with text, PHP, ASP, MySQL,READ MORE