The RocketBoots team let fly.
I'm speaking at KiwiFlash2005 in Christchurch, New Zealand this Friday - talking about Flash Video with an emphasis on some of the new features made possible with Flash 8.
I'll be covering things like: syncronising video with text, including an...
Stumbled upon this while doing some research for a magazine article that I'm writing on the Studio 8 release. It appears as though Macromedia has released the Flash Remoting Component for Flash 8 ActionScript 2.0 today.
While the release notes...
Imagine a Flash powered application that can organise your day in a way that makes use of a recyclable resource to produce a simple to use, portable, pocket sized planner that's customisable that even has space to store a business card or two! Some i...
I've travelled regularly for work over the years and have been packing the bare essentials into a trusty well built little Samsonite overnighter that's managed to last a good 14 years until Thursday night when it popped out on the luggage carousel wi...
David Ringley commented on my Ruby iterators for Actionscript post asking if there was a way to do the same thing in ColdFusion.Unfortunately CFML doesn't allow function literals (although you can assign functions to variables after they've been ...
There was a fair bit of interest in my post yesterday about implementing Ruby-like iterators in Actionscript, so without further ado here's the source:.csharpcod...
I've been reading a bit about the programming language Ruby recently. I bought the "pickaxe" book while I was waiting for an appointment in the city because I wanted to (a) get a handle on the hype around "Ruby on Rails", and (b) look at how Ruby us...
If you are getting the error:
(unknown) : type error class not found : Support.Macromedia.Flash
when attempting to use Flashout on OS X, it's because of the space between "Application" and "Support" in the path to your Flash classes ...
'Scuse the recent lack of postings - I've been busy putting together RocketBoots' first Master Class on MVC for ActionScript 2 which is due to commence next week.
This is the first of many Master Classes that will cover the range of experience ...
Want the inside word about who's talking about you in their podCast this week? Well I just found a really cool way you can find out. Podscope is a new podCast search engine that uses voice recognition based indexing to scan thr...