In my new position at litl, we are using an extremely handy plugin for Eclipse and Flash Builder called Flex Formatter. One of the cool things about the plugin is that you can set it up to automatically format when you save a file, so your code will always conform to your company's code style [...]

MAX North America finished over a week ago, and I have to say, it was an invaluable experience. If you ever have the chance to convince your boss to let you go, I would definitely recommend it. If not for the stuff you might learn or pick up in the sessions or labs, but for [...]

Friend and ex-colleague Jon Ross directed me towards his team's latest achievement, World of Cars. Based on the movie Cars, its a pretty cool 3D racing game and car customizer done in Flash. Jon tells me they used their own proprietary 3D engine, along with an isometric scrolling tile engine for the game itself. I [...]

I'm super-pleased to say that Adobe AIR in Action is now available in all good bookstores (those that don't have it aren't good bookstores.. I'm looking at you, Boston Prudential Center's Barnes & Noble). I had a fantastic time contributing my chapters for this book, and even though I may be biased, I think it [...]

I found this javascript-controlled audio streamer I made a while ago. It weighs in at a massive 1.2k and is very basic. Maybe you could make it a personal challenge to make it smaller! Download the swf here. (right click & save). Source (AS2): Main.as MiniStreamer.as How to use: Basically you need to embed the [...]

I've posted about the components I've been working on as a side project for a long while now. Finally, I'm just about ready to release them to the public in a beta state. The Razor Component Framework is intended to be a lightweight, yet feature-rich alternative to the mx framework for Flash, Flex and AIR. [...]

For a while now I've been spending my spare time writing about AIR for an upcoming book titled "Adobe AIR in Action" published by Manning. I've had the pleasure of working with three very talented co-authors, Joey Lott, Sam Ahn, and Kathryn Rotondo. I'm psyched about the release since I think we've put together a [...]

Been a long time posting! I guess you can put it down to being busy busy, but probably also due to lack of creative juices (beer?). I've found that I maybe underestimate my free time when it comes to my personal projects, and that I take on too much. Case in point.. I've been working [...]

A couple of weeks late posting this (been busy!), but I am very happy to report that I'm now an employee of Schematic, working out of their new Boston office with some very talented people. After being mostly in the education industry for 5-or-so years, I'm looking forward to creating stuff that might be a [...]

The whole method of waiting a frame to allow other functions to complete never sat right with me. It just seems.. broken. In the MX components, doLater is used a lot - a function for putting off execution of another function until the next frame.. usually to allow other child components to finish initializing before [...]