Why people are still using Internet Explorer 6 (or any version for that matter) is beyond me; but recently when developing a trending application for a company that only supports IE6 I ran into the age-old caching issue.  Normally, I would add a random number at the end of the URL string, however, this application […]

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This is a simple, but very handy function when working with PHP and Flash.  This will turn an object into a string of URL data – this is very helpful converting a mySQL object from mysql_fetch_object to Flash variables. function object2URLData($obj) {      $data = "";      foreach($obj as $key=>$prop)      { […]

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After a hard day’s work on the oBIX to Flash project I blogged about yesterday, I am happy to report that progress is moving fast.  The module (currently called FloBIX) is able to parse oBIX and convert it into a collection of ActionScript 3 objects – usable in Flex 3 or Flash CS3.  It currently […]

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Today I finally got my hands on the long anticipated Flex Builder 3!   For most of my projects since October I’ve been using the beta version – it feels great have this software finally out in the world.  At first glance, I can’t see many changes from the third release of the beta but I […]

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Seb Lee-Delisle gave a great particle demonstration today at FITC (although he was somewhat still inebriated from the party last night). Seb shared his particle class with us, the same class used to create the great effects on his website pluginmedia.net. Tonight is my last night in L.A. – I’ll be heading to Vegas in […]

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I’m currently in Los Angeles for the Flash In the Can Festival – a premiere Flash developer convention. The festivities kicked off on Sunday with an awesome Papervision 3D workshop by John Grden. He demonstrated an AIR application using PV3D, Flex, and Red5 to synchronize the fret and finger position on a virtual guitar to […]

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