I’ll post a proper blog entry on this when I get back from San Francisco, but I wanted to provide a link to the slides from my short introductory talk to my Ask The Experts session on the 5 coolest features of ActionScript 2.0, and what they mean to developers.
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Flash MX 2004 Enterprise Development
My Flash MX 2004 Enterprise Development workshop is coming to Toronto. If you’re going to be in or around Toronto for FlashInTheCan, you’re going to want to check this out! If you’re not going to FlashInTheCan – you should! 🙂
FlashMX 2004 Enterprise-level Development
My apologies for the lack of posts lately – things have been comfortably busy, with client projects, and a few other endeavours, one of which is a new advanced Flash course I will be instructing at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in January and February ’04. Read on for the full press release from NAIT…
Flutter: Hit-test outside parent bounds with `DeferPointer`
One thing that has always felt a little limiting in Flutter for us has been its inability to perform hit-testing for a button or gesture detector that is outside the parents bounds. This has been a popular issue in the Flutter bug-base over the years, getting something around 150+ upvotes if you add up all […]
Alpha video in HTML5
Alpha video in HTML5 should be easy right? Not quite, certainly not as easy as Flash was. In an article a long long time ago, from an internet far far away … I wrote about alpha video in Flash 8. (remember Flash?). Back then alpha video was a huge new feature that allowed developers to […]
Flutter: Accelerate your testing with Keyboard listeners
Often when working on a new library or widget, you would like to wire up many temporary testing hooks during development. Usually in Flutter you would create some buttons, and assign some handlers to trigger all the actions you need. The problem with this is the boilerplate and time required to constantly be writing UI. […]
Flutter: Introducing StatsFl, an FPS monitor for Flutter
As we begin pushing Flutter to more platforms such as Desktop and Web, it is becoming increasingly important to quickly and easily measure performance of your application. While the built-in performance monitor gets the job done, it leaves a lot to be desired in terms of readability and flexibility. As the old school Flash devs […]
Not Your Typical Walk Cycle
Warning: There is a GIF at the bottom of the post with flashing images. Like many of you, I was inspired by the impressive visuals of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (which, by the way, has a website built using gskinner’s CreateJS libraries) and wanted to try to apply some of that style into one of […]