'Flex' Category
Couple of Flash Firefox things
Flashbug; debug Flash content within Firefox via Firebug.
Mozilla have also revealed they’re adding safeguards against Flash crashes in future versions of their browser (much like Chrome offer).Flash 10.1 voice recognition demo
Very impressive voice recognition demo here, as discovered via cisnky’s Twitter postings.
Is Flash going to die a slow death?
Interesting blog post on eric e. dolecki’s site here on the topic of Flash’s survival. I’m not sure how much of an issue poor(er) Flash performance on the Mac is for the guys at Adobe, but considering Flash has performed worse on the Mac for years now I’m guessing it’ll continue to remain somewhere down the […]
SWF Framerate Optimization
Great video tutorial from Lee Brimelow on coding framerate-efficient Flash content. Slowing down the framerate when nothing’s going on in the content or when the user has clicked out of the .swf; all basic ideas that aren’t followed enough and would help counter the criticism Flash receives about being resource-hungry. Go check it out!
Flash indexing with external resource loading
Google have expanded their Flash indexing capabilities by allowing for the indexing of external assets. A lot of Flash applications read in some sort of XML config file, which in turn often loads in additional assets such as images, mp3s, etc. This is a big deal in getting Flash properly indexable, so kudos to Google.
Adobe tutorials on YouTube
At last; Adobe start to stick video tutorials up on YouTube. It’s now a little easier to stick these things on your iPhone to watch during the commute.
Flex SDK coding conventions and best practice
Flex SDK and coding best practice guide here.
Critical updates to Flash 9 and 10
Updates to safeguard against security exploits can be found here. Debug versions patched too.
Ant in Flex Builder 3
Initial tutorial on setting up Ant within Flex Builder 3.
Open source debugger for Flash, Flex and AIR
http://www.demonsterdebugger.com/
