Monthly Archives: January 2007

Invalidation Strategies for Flash Player

Posted on January 31, 2007 by admin

Skip Intro Had the honor of meeting up with an old friend yesterday. Chris Skogen, one of the talented gents at Gizmolabs, was my manager & tech lead when I worked at BellSouth. He’s an extremely talented programmer, doing a … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Director, Flash, Flex | 7 Comments

Flash Lite 2 Component Framework Questions to the Community

Posted on January 25, 2007 by admin

After yesterday’s frustrations with the technical limitations I’m running into, I thought I’d put out some questions to the community to see what they feel is important to them in a Flash Lite 2 component framework. This will help me … Continue reading →

Posted in FlashLite | 6 Comments

Flash Lite 2: Low RAM, Optimizing via Degraded Ego

Posted on January 25, 2007 by admin

Can’t sleep, so here are a couple trends I keep noticing I do in my Flash Lite 2 development. First off, I keep running out of RAM. The forms I had the designer create from my wireframes won’t work because … Continue reading →

Posted in FlashLite | 8 Comments

Creative Commons is not for Software, I Disagree

Posted on January 24, 2007 by admin

I was irritated there was no attribution style license on Google Code, specifically, no Creative Commons license. So, I joined the Google Code mailing list, found 2 previous posts from people asking for CC being added as a license option, … Continue reading →

Posted in Business Process, Technology | 7 Comments

Flash Lite 2: SetInputTextType & Slash Syntax

Posted on January 23, 2007 by admin

Flash Lite 2/2.1 has an fscommand2 called “SetInputTextType”. One of the reasons for its existence is that TextField.restrict is not supported in Flash Lite 2 / 2.1. My guess is, to make it easier for the Flash Lite Player engineers … Continue reading →

Posted in FlashLite | 2 Comments