Category Archives: Flash

Getting a blank screen when using Adobe’s Flash Packager for iPhone?

Chris Cantrell released an iPhone packager refresher a few weeks back but when I packaged up my AIR app I was getting a blank white screen (as were a few others). However I got it to work after I made a few changes to my Application descriptor file – the XML file created with your [...]

Some App Engine links

Aral Balkan on Building Flash applications with Google App Engine.
PureMVC Python / Google App Engine Demo

List of Flex resources and tutorials

Paranoid Ferret Productions, who themselves are a great Flex resource, have a list of the ‘Best Adobe Flex Resources and Tutorial Sites‘.

ActionScript MVC minimalist example for PureMVC 2.0.3

I’ve updated Chandima Cumaranatunge’s excellent PureMVC walk-through to work with the latest version of PureMVC (2.0.3). Although PureMVC has extensive documentation nothing beats a simple demo for wrapping your brain around the framework. The most helpful part of Chandima’s tutorial is when he steps through the sequence of actions which includes initialization and then following [...]

PureMVC for Ruby

The PureMVC framework is considered one of the best for Flash/Flex development (definitely the best documented), I hadn’t checked out the site in a while (which has undergone an overhaul and is much improved!) and since my last visit PureMVC is now available for not only AS2 and AS3 but C#, ColdFusion, Java, Perl, PHP, [...]

Deep linking in Flex and Flash with Django

Aral Balkan shows you how.

Build Flash with Ruby

Via Flex on Rails…
Using HotRuby it is possible to use straight Ruby to build a Flash app.

Adobe holding a series of online seminars this week

Info here.
Some of the more interesting sessions:
Extending Web to the Desktop with AIR
Monday, March 24, 2008
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM US/Pacific
Getting Started with Flash Lite 3 and CS3
Monday, March 24, 2008
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US/Pacific
Building Rich Internet Applications with Flex 3
Monday, March 24, 2008
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM US/Pacific
Introduction to Adobe Blaze DS
Tuesday, March [...]

Flash game makes the jump to Wii

Defend your Castle (where you fling away attacking stick men) will be one of the first WiiWare games released.
Defend your Castle Wii version

Run Ruby code in the Flash Player?

Or even better write Flash/Flex Rich Internet Applications with Ruby? Ted Patrick says it may soon be possible.
When Microsoft released Silverlight the one feature that got a lot of people excited was that you could use the language you were most familiar with to build a RIA. Apparently Adobe has an internal project which allows [...]