UPDATE: It’s been over a year since I considered stopping my study of Objective-C and I can gladly say that I made the right choice in continuing to learn Objective-C and native app development. With Adobe’s recent moves discontinuing Mobile and TV Flash development and moving the Flex SDK to ‘an established open source foundation’… Read More »
I found a fix for a single case of “Flash cannot parse this document” error when opening a file saved from Adobe Flash CS5. Here is how it happened. A designer friend of mine upgraded to CS5 recently and sent me an email in a panic when she got this error “Flash cannot parse this… Read More »
So your working on a new RIA in Flash and you want to use the built in NumericStepper, or any other Flash component for that matter but you aren’t happy with the skin. You’ve already seen Customizing the NumericStepper component by Adobe and you’re ready to move past changing the color of the component and… Read More »
On a shared hosting environment you often won’t have access to ban IP addresses on the IIS level and my shared host didn’t offer the Firewall module for Plesk so I had to come up with a programmatic way of blocking large blocks of IPs. You can setup in your web.config file something called a… Read More »
Weddingtracker launched on June 12th around 2:30PM CST and it has been about 8 long months of development and battle to get it out the door. With over 18,000 lines of code, over 400 files and 64mb in size this has been by far my most complicated Flash project ever. You can see the 13… Read More »
I launched my new portfolio site for Barrett Sonntag Online and wanted to talk a little on the technical aspects of the new all Flash site. After doing my analysis on the World of Warcraft website (worldofwarcraftcom front and back-end analysis) I wanted to see what it would take to combine a little JavaScript, HTML… Read More »
Last Friday I was approached by my boss to look into an advertisers banners due to reports of malware notifications when browsing our site. It sounded far fetched to think that Flash was executing malicious code on the client side browsers but I cracked open the SWF files with a de-compiler to take a look.… Read More »
Day One Adobe Keynote (unofficial video) Kevin Lynch, Adobe ActionScript 3 for Designers Rich Shupe, FMA On the Road with Adobe AIR Mike Chambers, Adobe The Secret to Project Management for the Creative Studio Daniel Schutzsmith, GraphicDefine Branding via Social Media for the Interactive Artist and Small Agency (will be removed 09/28/07!) Giovanni Gallucci OOP… Read More »