nothing yet | jason madsen

A couple of things fell together for me in the last few days, and I started thinking about attending Flash Camp Atlanta. I posted on twitter that I was trying to work things out to attend. Turns out an email from David Tucker was just the motivation I needed, and I am officially [...]

A few years ago, I built a simple extension for the Flash IDE that would auto generate class files for me. I used it for a while, but shortly there after moved to Flex Builder as my editor. At the University, the OOP course I teach, starts out in the Flash IDE for [...]

Norm Soule has released v1.0 of his new PixelBlitz Engine. It is a system for utilizing BitmapData to represent your MovieClips and Sprites. There are several built in features (layers, pixel level collision detection, etc) but the most impressive reason for using it is the speed. There are several demos, full documentation, and [...]

With the Flash / Flex community buzzing about Adobe’s partnering with the PHP Zend framework, Lee Brimelow has put up two fantastic introductions to using AMFPHP within Flash at theFlashBlog.com. Both of the video screen cast are geared towards getting developers familiar with using AMFPHP, and as usual are quick, to the point, and [...]

I’ve been using the Flex Integration Kit to create my own custom components in Flash for use in Flex lately. Coming from an all ActionScript (not necessarily MXML) background there are a few things to watch for. One of them being Custom Events in your newly created component.
In order for Flex to recognize [...]