Andrew Edwards just posted a case study on his team's experience in using open source Flash tools as part of their development process on the PlaceAd RIA for TradingPost.com.au last year. In the study, Edwards mentions how their use of open source tools saved them over 110 hours in compile time and allowed them to [...]

I was recently at Mix '06 in Las Vegas, courtesy of Lynda.com, along with a group of fellow Flash developers as part of a Microsoft-sponsored initiative to both expose some of us in the Flash world to Microsoft's new Expression line of products and to get our feedback on them. The Expression line includes the incorrectly-named [...]

David Berlind, executive editor of ZDNet, tells it like it is and I couldn't agree more: DRM is CRAP. (Via Digg.com)

I just got back to the UK from Mix '06 (and was lucky enough to catch one of the fast trains from Gatwick, where I'm seated at the moment writing this entry.) Apologies for not posting more updates during the event after the initial two posts from the first day but the wifi at the [...]

Sitting at a session on IE7 at Mix '06 and the quick tabs view looks cool. The new Print Preview is also very neat (allowing you to change the margins and see multiple pages). It's definitely looking good. The word that comes to mind is "finally!" Still, though, I'm so happy that, working with Flash, I [...]