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To continue with Air development or not to continue, that is the question 22 Feb 2013 | 08:38 pm
I’ve spent the last two weeks or so now doing a lot of tech soul searching, exploring all viable options currently available so I can move my life on in a tech landscape that’s seemingly (at least fro...
The App stores are madness… but I see the method in them. 1 Feb 2013 | 08:00 pm
Just posting this so in the annuls of time there’s a marker to look back at and realise at what time the “open web” died (give or take a year). With all this hullabaloo regarding HTML5 (and it’s asso...
Flash is alive and kicking! Why does it feel like Adobe’s trying to kill it? 16 Jul 2012 | 11:27 pm
I’ve been a Web/Flash designer and more recently a developer for over a decade now. I have been an avid supporter of the Macromedia’s and now Adobe’s Flash technology and all that it enables. However,...
Time to get responsive! 4 Jul 2012 | 04:50 pm
Just a celebratory post to signify my third WordPress skin and my 6th year of blogging! Try it out on your phone, tablet, or desktop and watch those pixels fly!!
The great Flash brand dilemma 18 Jun 2012 | 05:09 pm
I was speaking with a colleague last week about the amazing work that Air for Mobile facilitates, and we both agreed that with the battering the Flash brand has taken recently, it might be time for a ...
local3DToGlobal and Matrix3D shennanigans! 18 Feb 2012 | 06:58 am
Just spent a few hours debugging this little delightful side effect of using local3DToGlobal on a DisplayObject that I’d set it’s matrix3D property to null (to remove the effect of blurry graphics aft...
Native Extensions for Android with Air 3 and Flashdevelop 3 Nov 2011 | 04:35 am
I spent a day or so recently wrangling with the new Native Extension capabilities introduced in Air 3, so thought I’d post up some details of my findings. Firstly, I’ll be honest and say that I found ...
Textfield scaling issue 17 Aug 2011 | 12:55 am
Thought I’d post about this issue unless anyone else comes across something similar and needs a fix. On a recent site I worked on (www.sky.com/bintm) i’m scaling the content when the user goes into Fu...
FullScreen Flash mask gotcha 8 Jul 2011 | 09:46 pm
Long time between posts… but thought I’d document this so that anyone else coming across the issue can get a quicker fix than I found. The problem I was having was with a masked area that wasn’t resiz...
Flash busted my bullocks last week 13 Oct 2010 | 09:46 pm
Generally speaking, Flash and cross browser deployment go hand in hand… not so for me over the last week. I spent 4 days doing some work for an Agency in London, and I encountered 3 browser related Fl...
