Here’s an amazing Flash open source project that my colleague Jelger pointed out to me:
http://www.gaiaflashframework.com/
GAIA is an open source framework by Steven Sacks for developing websites in Flash. It allows you to setup your Flash site project in just minutes. After that, everything you need to start creating is available in the provided ActionScript class [...]
To schedule jobs, I’ve found nothing better than using a Cron string, especially when you want to schedule repeating tasks. A Cron allows you to do complex scheduling like launch every weekday at 14h00, except in July and August. Check out this sample with a cron editor and a scheduler test (right-click and view source). [...]
Subversion is probably the best versioning and source control software out there. While you’re working with a Subversion client (like Tortoise SVN, Subclipse or whatever), little hidden folders named “.svn” are being created and maintained in every single folder of your project. Needless to say that in projects with tons and tons of package folders, [...]
As soon as a Web agency reaches a certain “critical mass” in terms of personnel, there’s a trend to appoint team coaches. I really think that’s a healthy and logical evolution. It’s inevitable that in a diverse context of a full-service interactive agency, you get the formation of subgroups such as the marketeers/strategists, the project [...]
Embedding fonts in your Flex project has several advantages. Main reason would be if you use a font that’s not wide-spread on the users’ machines, another reason might be the anti-aliasing which enables fading of text, etc… However, embedding a font in Flex quickly adds up a few hundreds of Kb to the filesize of [...]
Here’s a little hack to directly instantiate MovieClips and Sprites created in Flash CS3 inside of Flex and then add those instances to the displaylist in Flex (and interact with that Flash content). To show you how this works, I’ve created the most silly sample in Flash history: the return of Flashman into Flex. It’s [...]
