I’m back from Rubyfringe which was hands down the best conference i’ve been to. Pete Forde asked me to present on memcached (mem-cache-dee) after my popular blog...

I recently discovered a great podcast that is put out by Thoughtworks. I can’t remember at the moment who turned me on to this thing (probably Ali), but it really...

As an ecosystem we do not share knowledge very well and over time this has essentially created a very large walled garden. If you are in-the-know regarding the ecosystem...

We hear people asking questions, how to make swf (more) searchable? Is SWF searchable? Not many people know, most of the search engines index text within swf files. My...

While I use Firefox 99.7% of the time, there are those rare times that I'll open IE7 to test a site or to check to see how something runs in it compared to other...

photo by: Simon Barnes I swear I’m not making this up. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I found it. Safari is one of our favorite browsers, and we love...

Michael Wesch is an Asst. Proffessor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. He created the video entitlted, "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us,"...

I just finished reading an excellent article over at Kaourantin.net. Tinic wrote a brilliant article detailing what GPU processing in Flash Player 10 will mean to us. ...

It looks like the folks over at MSN agree that SWF really is the best way to get video content in front of the most users! Maybe this is just a switch for those of us...

Now that I've figured out how to compile SWFs for Flash Player 10 beta using the Flex SDK nightly builds, I'm happy. There may not be any proper API documentation yet,...

An interesting news and often asked questions by many developers that “if they use Adobe’s Flash technology, is Search engines will be able to find text...

But seriously, where are the docs and compiler support for the new and exciting beta of Flash Player 10? I watched the video, and I looked at what is probably the only...

Here's tools that I use for Flex and AS3 development: 1. Flash Switcher for switching between Flash players. Actually, I don't use this tool yet, but I plan to start...

Adobe’s announcement that they have been working with Google and Yahoo! to make Flash content more accessible to search engines has generated discussion about...

I’ve been meaning to post this ever since we released Flex Builder 3 Beta 2 a few weeks ago. There are some nice debugger enhancements I wanted to tell you about (in...

In AS3 you can load an asset from a SWF using the Embed metatag like this: PLAIN TEXT Actionscript: [Embed(source="Assets.swf",...

If you uncheck “Generate HTML wrapper file” in your Flex Builder Project ActionScript Compiler options (which is good idea if you want to use SWFObject to...

If you’re trying to develop a flex app that can go fullscreen (allowFullScreen) you’ll get an error in Flex Builder when you try and run code that launches...

By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsWe are trying an experiment, putting up Code Review in a variety of formats, from text to audio (iTunes) and video.After a great...

I spent a good hour yesterday trying to get SWFAddress 2.1 and SWFObject 2 to work together. First off, they do work together. Second, there's nothing to it. Then why did...