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The lads over at Generator have been a bit quiet over the last few months as they put the finishing touches on a project that's been more than two years in the making....more

When I returned to my all-singing all dancing Flex Cairngorm project after Webdu my client showed me the results of some remoting traffic measurements they had carried out in the previous week....more

A few days back I posted some code for dumping arbitrary Actionscript objects in a robust fashion....more

I'm a big fan of adding tracing output to my code to confirm that it's doing what I think it's doing, and if not to help me debug it quickly.

Writing tracing code can be a labourious task, so over time I've developed some reusable tracing code for Actionscript and ColdFusion....more

Some of you may remember the asteroid field simulation I wrote a few months back. Now that I've got my OSX AS3 environment set up (thanks again Joc and Alisdair - I've got it set up as an automated build task in Eclipse) I thought I'd port it over to pure AS3....more

The next time you and a friend have a few spare minutes there's a very cool, freshly released FlashCom game you should try out.

RocketBoots was approached by Saatchi & Saatchi a few months back to help out with a viral marketing campaign for one of their clients....more

Hi all,

Here's a quick one for those of you who'd like to save some time when tracing out a list of variable values in actionscript....more

There was a fair bit of interest in my post yesterday about implementing Ruby-like iterators in Actionscript, so without further ado here's the source:

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This is the first of many Master Classes that will cover the range of experience that the RocketBoots team has to offer....more

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I've just finished listening to the Macromedia Developer Relations team's first talking book (aka known as a PodCast to the iPod endowed) and I have to say that i'm very impressed with their inagural effort....more

Late last month Nokia and Macromedia announced the first industry-wide Mobile Flash Hunt at Forum Nokia's Mobile Application Summit in Hong Kong....more

We've been working with several development teams over the past year on Flex applications using the Cairngorm framework from iteration::two....more

Janina Koppel from Das Planearium has been busy developing South Park Studio, a great Flash based South Park character generator that allows you to create your own custom South Park characters. I've been a fan of South park for a while and let me tell you this app is "kick ass"....more

It might be a long bow to draw but here's my two cents worth on the recent movements over at Yahoo! and Macromedia and most recently Flickr....more

Hello poetry lovers everywhere,

Don't read this post. For the rest of you, I couldn't resist having a crack at the prestigious Turdhead actionscript poetry prize....more

They say a wink is as good as a nod, and an interesting article over at thinkSecret by Ryan Katz whilst not quite “spilling the beans” is certainly food for thought when looking at where we could possibly expect to see Flash popping up next....more

Hey, is everyone getting excited? Less than a fortnight to MXDU 2005, and from all indications so far its going to be a bloody ripper :-) I love the superhero characters Nectarine have whipped up this year - ColdFusion's hair is great, his quiff looks like it came out of a soft-serve machine at a...more

The code from Friday's ANZ Community Seminar on building RIAs with the Cairngorm framework is ready for download. Cairngorm is a really useful MVC framework for developing RIAs, created by the team at iteration::two based on their experiences over the last few years....more

Hello,

Just a quick announcement - tomorrow at 3pm Australian Eastern Standard Time I'll be presenting the January Macromeida ANZ Community talk. The topic is building applications in Flex using iteration::two's Cairngorm framework....more

Eagle eyed Ze Fernando from Zeh blog yesterday spotted that ICQ have just released a new version of their web client ICQ2Go....more

Take-Away allows you to read (or listen) to the latest Macromedia news on your iPod or other MP3 player....more

The activation software for Flash wouldn't let me activate because it had thought that I had done this too many times already....more