Get ready for ActionScript 4.0!

As you certainly know, ActionScript 3.0 is based on ECMAScript language. The new edition of ECMAScript is in preparation (ECMA-262 Edition 4) and will most certainly shape the future of ActionScript 4.0. Colin Moock is going to do a lecture at FITC about these changes. You can access his lectures notes ‘What’s new in ECMAScript… Read More »

Master of Science :=) Youupppiii !!!

Well that’s a great news, I received earlier the results of my last exam: I’ve finally got my Master of Science in Information Systems and Communication (oriented in technology). This year was a great one: I got married, became a Dad, passed a lot’s of exam, had my new job, 5 month as a project… Read More »

Creating more secure SWF web applications

Interesting article written by Peleus Uhley for the Adobe Developer Center about creating more secure SWF web applications. This article will help you set all the security to protect your SWF from threats, for example: Cross-domain privilege escalation Spoofing Malicious data injection Script injection into the browser Insufficient authorization restrictions Unauthorized access to data in… Read More »

AIR – Java and Your Desktop

The incredible advantage that Desktop application have on web application is the connection with the local computer (other application, file system, computation, …). Unfortunately the mix between AIR and desktop properties are not as far as Java or C. The most wanted functionalities are to launch native application through AIR and integration with native libraries.… Read More »

Apple wanting to buy/merge with Adobe?

Just sharing the fun 🙂 I know some will get mad reading this sort of title, but it’s funny enough to be shared. By ‘funny’ I don’t understand impossible neither feasible ;=) Here are more information on that UBO (unidentified buying object), by order of reading: Bits and Buzz Apple seeking a reunion with Adobe?… Read More »

Bye Bye Vista. XP, Welcome Back!

This is the last blue screen I’ll tolerated from Windows Vista, if you didn’t make your migration yet, don’t! I’ve been very ‘polite’ with him, I even re-installed being careful of not installing unstable software on it. Just a look on Google, 1 650 000 link to “Vista Blue Screen”, whereas “XP Blue Screen” will… Read More »

Using URLVariables()

URLVariables Class allow you to send or receive data from an URL encoded feed (with the data property of the URLRequest class). There is so two possible use: Sending parameters to a server side script Read parameters written from a server side script The use is quite simple, let’s start by building the PHP file… Read More »

JSON and AS3 URLRequest Class

A while ago, the as3corelib has been published on Google Code with a useful tool: JSON encoder and decoder. JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight computer data interchange format (that is intended to solve XML structure weight), that allows you to send Object (Array, Strings, Number, …) to your server scripts or to JavaScript.… Read More »

W3C working draft: Use HTML(5) not Flash or Silverlight

Just read this news from Tim Anderson’s blog, it appear that the W3C working draft has a statement about the use of proprietary UI languages. As an open, vender-neutral language, HTML provides for a solution to the same problems without the risk of vendor lock-in. BUT: For sophisticated cross-platform applications, there already exist several proprietary… Read More »

FITC is coming to Europe – Amsterdam – February 2008

Not sure everybody knows about it (???), sure enough I’ll be heading there! Having successfully held events in Toronto, Chicago, Winnipeg, and Hollywood, FITC makes its Europe debut in Amsterdam. Explore the creation of NEW ideas and concepts, where the limits of technology in design and art can be experimented with, explored, broken and reinvented.… Read More »

Command Prox: .NET & AIR integration

Great proof of concept released by Mike Chambers on how to create an interaction between C# / .NET and AIR application. You can have more information on the project home or from Mike’s post. Ahmet   0 Kudos Don'tmove!