17 Jan 2006



I'm excited to announce that I will be teaching an all-new Hot Shots Seminar Series in 2006 -- the first of which will be held between February 13th-17th, 2006 in London.

The intense, one-day seminars will cover the following topics: (more...)

Hot Shots: Five Intense One-Day Seminars in February (London, UK)

16 Jan 2006

SourceSecure to be merged into CVSDude

I have some exciting news! Ariaware and CVSDude will be announcing today that Ariaware's SourceSecure service is scheduled to be merged into CVSDude.

Both services offer users source code hosting and project management tools based on the open-source Subversion, CVS, Trac and Bugzilla systems; coupled with an easy, online interface for managing projects, user authentication, and automatic backups.

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SourceSecure is being merged into CVSDude

13 Jan 2006


The London MMUG is holding its first meeting for 2006 on the 19th (next Thursday) at our usual venue in City University, London (nearest tube: Angel). In it, I will be covering Flex 2 and Tink will talk about AS3 (both are currently in Alpha at Macromedia Labs.)

We've currently got 63 people signed up to attend. Our current room has a maximum capacity of 70 so please sign up now if you want to attend. (There is a chance, if there's enough interest and if we have enough forewarning, for us to move to a larger room, seating 110 -- but that's the largest room they have available currently at the university so please sign up early if you do want to attend to give us time to arrange this.)

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London MMUG: 19th Jan, 2006 – Flex 2 and AS3

13 Jan 2006

There was a question from Iiley on the OSFlash Mailing List today, asking whether it is possible to extend classes that are dynamically loaded into Flash applications as per my SWF as DLL tutorial on OSFlash. It is, indeed, possible: Mark your library classes as "dynamic intrinsic" and then use the good old AS1-style prototype object to extend the class once it has been loaded by your main application.

In other words:

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Extending dynamically loaded classes in AS2

9 Jan 2006

I recently asked members of the Arp and OSFlash mailing lists for feedback on their experience with Arp 2 as well their requests for the upcoming Arp 3.

If you use Arp, I want to hear from you! Please take a few minutes to answer the questionnaire and send your responses to the Arp Mailing List. Many thanks in advance!

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Arp 3: Have Your Say!