Finally launched Virgin.com!

I’ve been working on Virgin.com for a while and it finally launched last week (July 10th to be exact). It’s a social website for the Virgin group of companies that pushes the boundaries of a corporate website. This is one of those sites I’m extremely proud of (enough so to blog about it) because I [...]

Why I think Flash Remoting is Cool

So I was at the bar with co workers friday and flash remoting came up in the discussion. One of the flash developers noted that we never really used flash remoting in our projects and he reasoned because we’re not doing heavy data transfers the need wasn’t there. He went on to say he used [...]

AS3 HitTestPoint (migration from as2)

Basically at the most inconvenient time hit a snag on what should be one of the simplest things to do in flash programming perform what was in as2 a hitTest.
as2:
my_mc.hitTest(_root._xmouse,_root._ymouse,true);
Expected as3 equivalent:
my_mc.hitTestPoint(mouseX,mouseY,true);
or
my_mc.hitTestPoint(my_mc.mouseX,my_mc.mouseY);

As you would expect by now the expected version didn’t work for me and after spending time searching couldn’t figure out why what was [...]

As 3 Inflector

I’ve been doing more back end than front the last 6 months, but I’m back in the flash game and looking to bring best things I liked about server side development with me. All this goodness will be incorporated in a MIT licensed library and I hope it will be useful to developers like myself. [...]

Cross browser compatibility getting better or worse?

CSS is getting closer and closer to being correctly implemented by all browsers (IE8 passed the acid test) but life as a web developer is not getting easier. If you thought Safari on Windows was “cool”, web developers around the world shed a tear. Just because a software is labeled cross platform doesn’t mean that [...]

Actionscript 3 Digital Audio Access Protocol help anyone?

So I have been experimenting with many things lately and a lot of my experiments has really exposed the need for more libraries that developers can leverage when developing in flex/AIR/flash. Rather than complain about it I am trying to slowly write libs to fill my needs and hopefully get to a point where I [...]

Open source develompent – transformation from taker to contributor

Through my increased effort to contribute to the open source community that has served me well over the years, I have a higher level of respect for open source developers. The amount of time needed to not only develop but document a project deserves a lot of respect from the people who use it.
I have [...]

CakePHP and Flash

I have been meaning to add this to the resource list but I wanted to do it justice and give a good post. I shopped around for a while for a good PHP framework since I like PHP for middleware but I like my PHP object oriented and clean (embedded php is not really [...]

JSFL is cool!!

I wrote my first of what I hope will be many JSFL scripts yesterday. Until now I was in the dark about what JSFL could do but the benefits to workflow cannot be understated. I need to tidy it up a bit before I publish but all it does is sync up the framerates between [...]