Since I was involved in the initial development, I’ll attempt to give some context as to why you’d want to utilize Google Analytics for Flash. A lot of people have a need for metrics of their Flash files. Originally, the only way to track things in Flash was to create your own back-end solution. For a lot of people, this was a ton of work and/or beyond their capability. So, they had no clue who was seeing their content, and in what context (did someone host their SWF on another site, embed in a blog, launch from the desktop, etc.). All of these user metrics help drive how some people create content, and without those metrics, they cannot make educated decisions.
Category: Flash
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Writing a Caching Engine for Flash Player
Not to be confused with Object Pooling, I’m referring to saving data you need to persist in your application across sessions, and more specifically about saving images in your own local cache as opposed to the browser cache.
As usual, I ask a question on Flex coders and get no response. This usually arises from the fact that its an open ended question without a simple answer, and thus, would take a long time to answer… say, the amount of time it takes to write a blog entry like this. My question was in regards to building caching engines. I’d never done one, and figured all the Java/Ruby/Python/ColdFusion server-heads who do Flex would know / have experiences to share. Well, it’s a month later, so here’s how it went for me.
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Being Independent & Making Money Using Flex: My 360Flex Speech
…now with 200% more “typically”!
I was originally scheduled to speak about Making Bling with Flex at the 360Flex conference here in Atlanta. I then got the flu, learned I needed to have an organ removed at the emergency room, and missed the entire conference. Doug & Juan filled in for me. Days later after the surgery, upon regaining some semblance of consciousness, I received “get well” cards signed by the Flex community from the conference (thanks for mailing, Leif!).
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Designer vs. Developer: Declaring Stage Instances
Here I am in Flash CS3, coding AS3 on the timeline with a few Document classes here and there for sanity on an insane deadline. While waiting for my source control to download (someone apparently checked in the WHOLE internet), I figured I’d blog about an interesting observation I came across this week.
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