I’ll be attending the Adobe MAX 2008 event in San Francisco, California this November for the full three day duration on top of some pre-event sessions that I’ve been invited to. I just nailed everything down yesterday and am looking forward to the conference! I’ve also submitted the DUVAGA Projection System (VPS) as an entry …
I haven’t been posting much lately as I’ve taken a good, long vacation this past month. Unfortunately, the vacation turned into a severe health crisis almost overnight and a good deal of it was spent in doctor’s offices and hospitals. It wasn’t my own ailment that caused this and all is fine now that everything …
I recently picked up a DropBox invite from Richard Davies (thanks Richard!) and the service is an unbelievably nice experience. I’ve got it linked to a few of my machines and it makes file sync very, very easy. If you are unaware of what DropBox is, I’d suggest having a quick look at their overview …
I’m taking a moment to highlight the Visual Media Center at the University of Denver and the relatively new weblog maintained by its Director, Leslie Trumble. The VMC works very closely with those of us on the DU VAGA development team and most of the feedback we receive about the application originates with users from …
A lot of desktop apps have a splash screen that brands the application while it is loading or performing other processes in the background. Adobe AIR does not have a direct mechanism for this- but the feature can be easily achieved with some nice windowing action. There are a number of steps to take when …
In past versions of FMS, developers were barred from accessing raw audio and video data over RTMP and had to resort to a number of hacks and proxies to get around the restriction. As time went by and new versions of the Flash Player were released, a lot of these loopholes were blocked as well. …
Vendetta Music is a neat independent music store located in Denver, CO off Broadway and Bayaud. They carry a lot of unique pieces and now “A Prison of Oneself” can be purchased there as well. Special thanks to Jesse Sola of Numina for hooking me up with this great location. As a side note; “Prison” …
I have this problem with Flex Builder 3. If I have “Build Automatically” checked under “Project”, my workspace gets stuck in this “Building Workspace” limbo and can never launch any projects for testing unless I toggle this setting back off. I’ve had the feature disabled for a few months now, but with the release of …
This one threw me for a loop. So I’ve been using the flash.display.NativeWindow class to create new windows in AIR (via Flex) since the beta releases. Historically, this has been a pain when you want to add MXML components to the native window as addChild() does not work with the NativeWindow class unless that child …
I’m really excited about a lot of developments that have been happening over the past few weeks and into the next few months! This has prompted me to resurrect this website and begin posting again. So… just a quick notification that the site will be updated soon with the expectation of regular, informative, and hopefully …
We’ve been running Flash Media Interactive Server 3 for over two weeks now on one of our media servers and I couldn’t be happier with the results. I was going to put off the upgrade from FMS2 for a few months while testing and waiting on a point release, but after having so many issues …
I’m used to setting the ObjectEncoding to AMF0 when working with Flash Media Server 2, but haven’t realized till now that I also am required to do this when communicating with Coldfusion 8 through remoting: import flash.net.NetConnection; import flash.net.ObjectEncoding; NetConnection.defaultObjectEncoding = flash.net.ObjectEncoding.AMF0; The error “Unknown object type tag (17)” was being generated by CF8 as …