SWFObject 2.0 beta
By Mims Wright | on November 25, 2007
In AS3, Flash, Flex, Hacks, News, Schematicers, XHTML / CSS / JS | No Comments
This is slightly old news but my friend and former co-worker, Geoff Stearns, has announced the beta for version 2 of his infamous swfObject on Google code. In case you haven’t heard, swfObject is probably your best, most powerful, and easiest option when it comes to embedding Flash Player content into an HTML page. The new version was rewritten from scratch and hopefully will become the official, de-facto solution for embedding SWF files in webpages. Kudos Geoff!
Skrypt Kidz 3000 Podcast
By Mims Wright | on November 19, 2007
In AS3, Authors, Flash, Flex, News, OMGWTFBBQ, Podcast, Programming, Rants, Schematicers | 4 Comments
Update: We’re up on iTunes!
A few weeks ago we asked you what you would want to hear from a new Flash podcast. The votes came in with a tutorial based podcast in the lead with 44%, followed by a discussion by experts with 18% and a healthy chunk of you (16%) thought it was irresponsible for us to bring another new podcast soul into this cruel world.
You told us what you wanted to hear and we listened to you.
But then we decided to ignore your suggestions and do something completely different.
It’s my pleasure to present Skrypt Kidz 3000 — a new semi-regular podcast where a barbarous crew of Flash and Flex developers get together to spend our precious weekend hours yakking about Flash issues. In our inaugural episode we discuss the pros and cons of using Flex over Flash. We also talk about Flex and FDT pricing and Adobe’s new wireframing tool Thermo.
ActionScript 3.0 Bible Available Now
By Mims Wright | on November 6, 2007
In AS3, Authors, Flash, Flex, News, Programming, Schematicers, Tutorial | 3 Comments
- Russian (Руский) translation by Michael
After nearly a year in development I’m very proud to announce that the ActionScript 3.0 bible has hit the shelves. This is our first book and its very exciting for us. The AS3 Bible is not just an update to the previous edition, the Flash 8 ActionScript Bible, but was written from the ground up with ActionScript 3.0 development in mind. We tried to focus on topics that matter to real world developers and to make it just as useful for experienced AS2 developers as it is for beginning programmers.
We’ve put a lot into this book and sincerely hope you enjoy it.
NOTE: many people have been complaining about the lack of code on the companion site. We’re currently working with our publisher to get that sorted out as soon as possible and hopefully it should be up by the end of the week.
I asked a passing hobo to pose for a picture with the new Bible