I'm listening to the Macromedia podcast with Christian Cantrell and Mike Chambers... Topics: MXNA data services, Mark Anders (VP of Engineering) on Zorn. Mark brings his ten years of Microsoft experience to Macromedia. At Microsoft he headed the ASP.Net and .Net Framework teams. (I recently had the chance to meet and talk to Mark and [...]

I updated my SWF as DLL tutorial on OSFlash in response to Clément Arnoux's question on the OSFlash mailing list regarding why I didn't use an exclude.xml file instead of intrinsic classes. (The answer was that I just hadn't thought of it at the time!) I updated the tutorial to cover the use of an [...]

Today is OSFlash's first monthaversary. Here are some statistics from our baby's first month here in cyberspace: Members on the mailing list: 353 Members on the Wiki: 232 Total unique visitors to the wiki: 16,040 Total visits: 31,257 Number of wiki edits made: 1,124 Number of unique pages on the Wiki: 153 Number of open source projects hosted by OSFlash: 10 Number of [...]

We had some extra time during my recent Best Practices Flash and Flex class and, at the request of the class, decided to cover FAMES. As part of this, we downloaded the latest Swfmill, which has support for linking classes to clips directly in the SWFML file. I thought we might as well use this [...]

Peter recently introduced me to the Flash Development Tool (FDT), an upcoming commercial plugin for Eclipse from the team at Powerflasher that looks very promising indeed. Carlo Blatz from Powerflasher was kind enough to invite me to the Beta for FDT and I can't wait to test it out for myself. FDT looks to be [...]