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Flash Builder 4 beta is here!

Andrew Nguyen — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:35:51 +0000

Adobe released Flash Builder (formerly Flex Builder) 4 beta today. You can check it out here. Also, be sure to check out what’s new in FB4 here.

Flex Camp OC

Andrew Nguyen — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:38:40 +0000

What do you get when you combine 150 Flex and ActionScript wizkids at Boeing? Flex Camp OC, that’s what. There’ll be plenty of cool talks, food, prizes, and a party later on in Surf City. Register and introduce yourself. I’ll see you guys on January 31st.

Learn more about the conference [via SDFUG.org]

Google’s Vision of Flash Content Gets a Little Clearer

Andrew Nguyen — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:03:50 +0000

FlashSpeaksActionscript just posted Jim Corbett’s presentation on SWF searchability. This is great for flash developers and designers who worry about SEO.

Check out the presentation here. [via FlashSpeaksActionScript]

Adobe announces Stratus

Andrew Nguyen — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:58:25 +0000

With the release of Flash Player 10, Adobe has allowed for peer to peer connections. But to get the clients to be aware of each other, you needed a middleman to handshake the peers such as an updated version of the Flash Media Server. Now Adobe Stratus is a new beta service that will act as the middleman and connect the peers. Once the connection has been established, it’s all peer to peer traffic.

Imagine peer to peer games, video chat without a intermediate server, etc. I hope to get a demo app out once I learn a little bit about it more.

CASA Lib updated to AS3

Andrew Nguyen — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:34:10 +0000

If you guys code as much as I do, I’m sure you’ve found yourself using code over again and again. CASA Lib is a set of classes and utilities to get you coding faster. Need to find and average value in an array? No problem. Need to remove all event listeners and do other cleanup when you remove a sprite from the stage? That’s there too. Check it out here or download here.

I won Best Use of Video at Flash Camp 2008!

Andrew Nguyen — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:54:27 +0000

FlashCamp 2008 was a 3 day event hosted by Adobe to allow Flash and Flex developers and designers a head start on the latest features of Flash CS4 and Flash Player 10. I was fortunate enough to go up to San Francisco and be part of this awesome event. I met a lot of people and it was really cool to meet people whose blogs I have been reading for a long time such as Lee Brimelow and Justin Everett-Church.

Among the 30 or so projects that were presented after the Hackathon, my VideoCloud won best use of video. There were some very cool projects presented and I highly suggest visiting the FlashCamp site to check it out.

Thanks Adobe for hosting such a great event!