We just returned from a wonderful two-week excursion to South Africa and now that I can no longer swing from trees (albeit with a harness) in Tsitsikamma or fling myself from a cliff (albeit with a rope) in Knysna, I've returned to the less life-threathening pursuits of my never-ending quest for best practices Flash and [...]

Emilie and I are leaving for a three week trip to South Africa today and, of course, my notebook's hard-drive picks this day to die! All I can say is thank goodness for backups, source control and VPN!.. the poor thing is already booked in at the repair shop in Cape Town for tomorrow so [...]

I'm going to be leaving for South Africa on Thursday and it's just been confirmed that I'll be presenting my Best Practices Flash Development talk at the MMUG in Cape Town, South Africa on November 18, 2004. Come on down for 90 minutes of best practices Flash, ActionScript 2 and Design Patterns! You can get [...]

Just a heads up to those of you in SA planning to attend my Best Practices Flash Development workshop in Cape Town: The dates have been changed to November 22-24, 2004.

I just responded to a thread on Ultrashock wherein one of our members was confused as to how Ariaware Optimizer works so I thought a simple explanation with an example might make it clearer. Here goes: Flash compiles your AS classes into bytecode (instructions that the Flash player can read and understand) and places this bytecode [...]