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Sep 9, 2009 0

Aspect oriented ActionScript 3

After reading an excellent post at http://virtualnomad.net/2007/11/17/aspect-oriented-programming-in-actionscript3/ I got all excited. Perhaps we can make aspect oriented AS3 work.

Sep 9, 2009 0

Come and work with me

Good news. I’ve been given the go-ahead to hire some more developers, particularly of the ActionScript variety. Which means, if you play your cards right – and you’re a brilliant ActionScripter – you could come and work with me (woo hoo).

You could get to do some really cutting edge work for some great clients – like Sony, Sony Ericsson, BMW and Vodafone. And there’s loads of variety – everything from Microsites and Air apps to live events. Here’s some of the fun stuff we have done in the past.

http://www.daredigital.com/work/work.html

I know I’m biased, but Dare really is a great place to work. The people are nice. The work is always full of interesting challenges and there’s free beer on Fridays, breakfast in the morning and a bunch of other benefits. If you think you’re up to it, drop me an email with your CV james.deakin@daredigital.com and make sure you copy in Lucy Cadman, Dare’s Recruitment Co-ordinator lucy.cadman@daredigital.com.

Sep 7, 2009 0

How HTTPS works

http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-https.html

Wow!

Jun 19, 2009 0

Google now supports Flash indexing with external resource loading

I like many other Flash and RIA developers have been waiting a long time for this.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/06/flash-indexing-with-external-resource.html

To date, when Google encounters SWF files on the web, we can:

Index textual content displayed as a user interacts with the file. We click buttons and enter input, just like a user would.
Discover links within Flash files.
Load external resources and associate the content with the parent file.
Support common JavaScript techniques for embedding Flash, such as SWFObject and SWFObject2.
Index sites scripted with AS1 and AS2, even if the ActionScript is obfuscated. Update on June 19, 2009: The version of ActionScript isn’t particularly relevant, but often asked. We index sites with AS3 as well.

Apr 27, 2009 0

Ubuntu 9.04 released

I’m really pleased to see that the latest version of Ubuntu has been released. I think its great that the opensource community have managed deliver a user friendly OS with the capabilities this project has. Ubuntu enables people access to great computing power with a very good user experience at zero software cost. I think that the efforts of the Ubuntu team should be applauded.

http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/904features/

Mar 2, 2009 0

Facebook viruses suck

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7918839.stm

Dec 5, 2008 0

Flocking Fast Flash

flint_birds

Here’s a little something Dan Turner cobbled together earlier, using a bitmap caching animation system from http://touchmypixel.com/ and the Flint particle system.

It iterates through every frame in your movieclip and caches it, making it quite absurdly fast. Have a play. Sorry the swf isn’t embedded you need to click the link.

Dec 1, 2008 0