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Practical ActionScript 3 at MAX 2009

Yesterday afternoon I had the privilege of addressing a crowd of over 100 at MAX. Apparently, the slides and source code that accompany the talk were not placed on the attendee extranet at MAX. So, per request of some of the attendees, I am posting the files here. (If you…

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TextMate and Regular Expressions

A lot of Mac users have become familiar with a powerful text editor in the form of TextMate. It combines some of the power that is Unix with some of the cleaness that is OSX to give you an editor that could replace some IDEs. It has code snippets and…

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AS3 :: BackgroundFill

Finally updated the source for my AS2 :: BackgroundFill class to work for AS3. Just define your gradient, instantiate the class and you're good to go. Check out and download the source @ http://labs.otuome.com/as3/background-fill.…

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Flash CS4: Using FileReference.load() for bitmaps

Lee Brimelow did a nice tutorial a while back showing us how to load text into a browser based .swf using Flash’s new FileReference.load() method. Here’s how to take it a step further and load in a local bitmap, cast it as a Bitmap object, and resize it proportionally. I…

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