Flash Art Of War

Just wanted to let everyone who knows (and now knows) my Dad’s surgery was a success and he is recovering nicely. We just got home from the hospital with him where he was eating and talking already after his surgery. Also, we were told that the tumor they removed from his salivary gland is not cancerous. My life has been on hold for the past month leading up to this so its nice to breath a sigh of relief. I also have some photos for anyone who is in interested.

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Had an interesting conversation with someone over at FirstBorn about FDT and my recent abandonment for FlexBuilder 3. Turns out FDT has been updated and supposedly fixes a lot of the performance issue I complained about. Here is a post briefly talking about the update as well. I am willing to take FDT back in but only if she treats me right this time. I am also going to see how FlexBuilder and FDT play together just incase I want to move between the two.

Also check out this post on FDT’s blog from Nico Zimmermann’s lecture at FlashBelt. There is a PDF with some good hints and tips for FDT and AS 3 workflows. Looks like it was a really good session.

I am sorry but this whole security model for Developers working locally really sucks. Why do I have to go to a settings page on Adobe’s site to configure my player’s local settings anyways? You would think that if developers had the Debug Player installed we wouldn’t be subjected to this kind of jumping through hoops when testing things locally. Just felt like ranting a little. Anyone else feel the same?

I have been working on a new CSS parser for my SUMO Framework. The idea is to have something that can load a CSS file, parse each CSS class into objects then use them as templates to create TextFields. There is a lot of logic needed to work out the conversion so I started looking into using “Reference” classes to help validate the CSS. Here is some stuff I came up with.

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A while back I posted about my backend for rapid HTML and Flash Data driven sites. I haven’t had much time to work on it but I thought it would be a good time to post screen shots of what I built. Hopefully I will have some time next month to clean up the code and open source the Web App.

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Normally I don’t post my photography on this site but I just wanted to share this. Today I am working from home and when I looked down into my glass of water I noticed the condensation was forming into the shape of a Skull. Hopefully not an omen but since I was working on ActionScript at the time I felt it was relevant.

Skull In A Cup

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I have been working on a system for loading in PNGs, JPGs and GIFs to skin my applictions and I am always on the look out for other people and how they have achieved similar results. I had bookmarked Liquid Components a while ago and Myles pointed out to me the other day that Didier Brun (The Developer) has open sourced them. I just downloaded it myself and thought I would pass along the link. You should also check out his other experiments, very cool stuff.