Year: 2007

Obligatory Year-End Analysis

I’m really not one for posting random thoughts all over the place- but it is interesting to think over some of my activities while on parental leave one year ago and contrast that with what life is like now- how things stand and where things are going. Work at DU is good. It’s been very …

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New Title!

My official title at DU has been changed to Senior Multimedia Application Developer– very nice! This new title is much more reflective of what I do on a day-to-day basis and I’m very pleased with the designation of “senior”- an indicator of my years of experience working in this field. We have been going through …

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AIR Beta 3

I skipped development on AIR Beta 2 simply because I was too busy doing other things. Now that Beta 3 is out, I’ve begun developing some modules that use such features as local storage and network monitoring. I’m very impressed so far and can see using this on a number of projects. Hopefully, resource consumption …

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BitmapData.draw() Problem in AIR

I’m using AIR integration with Flex Builder 3 to contain and package an AS2 SWF which was originally using Screenweaver for deployment to a standalone app. The problem I’ve noticed is that I have two areas into which each are being drawn from another MC using BitmapData.draw() which work just great in Flash CS3 when …

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CamStudio 2.5 “Beta” Released

CamStudio 2.5 is a screen recording application I’ve been using to author screencasts for the online courses I teach. These types of tutorials are really useful when teaching new users how to go about building things in Flash. It includes the option to output in FLV as well- so that is just perfect. I kind …

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Flash Player 9 FSCommand() Bug

I’m working on a rather large AS3 project through Fractured Vision Media which relies on the flash.system.fscommand package to properly transmit data from the application to its container layer. Unfortunately, we’ve come across a bug in which FSCommand calls are ignored! Through some quick research (e.g. Google) it was discovered that more than a few …

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Flash Media Server 3 Announced

I really, really hope that one of the improvements is a better security model when it comes to RTMP security restriction when accessing byte-level data… PLEASE, Adobe… Allow developers to access RTMP streams via BitmapData.draw() and SoundMixer.computeSpectrum()… please! Features important to my projects include: Improved performance H.264 and AAC streaming support New security features Improved …

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Good Job, Microsoft

I know it’s fashionable to trash Microsoft at every turn and I have a lot of gripes with the company (Internet Explorer, anyone?), but with Office 2007, I really have a lot of nice things to say. I’m not an Excel person. I know really very little about spreadsheets in general and tend to do …

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E4X: Watch Your Namespace…

When using the new XML object in ActionScript 3 and parsing the data with E4X, if your XML data has a “xmlns” attribute- you may have a difficult time getting any accessible data out of it. The infuriating thing is that the process will fail silently without throwing any errors, returning null, undefined, or anything …

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DUVAGAII PDF Presentation

One thing which is really unfortunate (but necessary) about the DUVAGA project is that all major functionality is not available to the public. We have developed some really nice tools and a good workflow but no one outside of a class setting has access to any of these materials due to copyright restrictions. Back in …

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