Monthly Archives: October 2008

Fireworks, Flex and AIR integration 0

Check out this interesting video from Adobe about some of the new features in fireworks CS4.

Integrating WordPress and Flash 0

I’ve been doing some research about making a GUI or frontend for WordPress using flash. The scaleabiltiy of WordPress and its simple setup would be sufficient for most flash-based sites, where you need to have updated content and still have the option of SEO.
The biggest obstacle is having WordPress output data back to you that [...]

Trying to find a GOOD editor for OSX 0

I’ve coded flash on the mac for the last 5 years and finding a good editor that fills all criteria, code-completion, color hinting, folding, etc etc has been a effin hassle. Either it’s overpriced as heck or free but missing some of the criteria. Over the years i’ve tried a bunch of editors, but none [...]

Parsing and rendering PDFs inside AIR with Flash 0

A while back i did a prototype that needed the functionality of parsing and rendering PDFs inside an AIR application, oh the joy…
Cleverly enough Adobe did include an HTMLLoader class with the AIR bundle, which also allows you to
load a PDF inside, just as it would in a normal browser. Tadaa! Simple aint it.