Flash Builder 4 does have the Ant executable by default, but it doesn’t have the Ant UI (org.eclipse.ant.ui). If you search the web for how to get Ant enabled in Flash Builder 4 you’ll find steps for installing the Eclipse JDT plug-in. The steps also work fine for Flash Builder 4 Beta 2/1 and Flex [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
There is no slowing down for me. If you haven’t heard I made the switch to the Flash Platform Evangelist team just a few weeks ago. What a great time to join the team, this is going to be a great year for the Flash Platform. If you have not been under a rock and [...]
I am not a networking guru so there is a lot of room for improvement on this idea. What I wanted to do was use the new AIR 2.0 DatagramSocket feature to try and find an IP printer on my home network. I wanted to do this with no knowledge of the printers ip address [...]
I have been playing with optimization techniques for building applications targeted for constrained devices. While at 360Flex and talking about some of the memory size issues around getting bitmap assets into ActionScript applications Brian Diette provide a tidbit which was quite useful.
My slides but not the code made it up on the 360Flex usb drive, I didn’t figure that out until today when I was giving my talk. So my talk at 360Flex in San Jose was called: OptimizeIt – Actionscript tips for iPhone games.
It really is a bunch of Actionscript optimizations and some of the [...]
I am joining the Adobe Platform Evangelist team. I’ll be part of the North American team, Kevin Hoyt, Ryan Stewart, Lee Brimelow, and Terry Ryan.
There is a lot I’ll have to figure out with my new role. I’ll be focusing on Flex related stuff and look forward to getting back into the community full swing. [...]
